Mark Erelli
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Mark Erelli (born 1975) is an American folk singer/songwriter from Reading, Massachusetts. In late 2006 he moved back from Portland, Maine to Somerville, Massachusetts. Erelli is a 1996 graduate of Bates College and holds a Master's Degree in Marine Biology. His most recent album, Hope & Other Casualties, is a collection of folk and Americana songs with stylistic arrangements, including "The Only Way", written in response to the September 11, 2001 attack and covered by Ellis Paul and Vance Gilbert.
Hope & Other Casualties was selected as the 2006 Album of the Year by the staff and members of WUMB Boston Folk Radio.
On "Compass & Companion", Mark partnered with Kelly Willis for the title song.
He regularly tours in support of Kris Delmhorst, Lori McKenna and Catie Curtis, playing acoustic and electric guitar.
Mark has worked with producer Lorne Entress exclusively and co-produced "Hillbilly Pilgrim" and "Hope & Other Casualties'. Erelli is a 1996 graduate of Bates College.
[edit] Discography
- Mark Erelli (1999)
- Compass & Companion (2001)
- The Memorial Hall Recordings (2002)
- Hillbilly Pilgrim (2004)
- Hope & Other Casualties (2006)
- Innocent When You Dream (2006)
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Categories: 1975 births | Living people | American male singers | American songwriters | American singer-songwriters | American folk musicians | Kerrville New Folk Competition finalists | People from Middlesex County, Massachusetts | People from Portland, Maine | Maine musicians | United States singer-songwriter stubs