Slaid Cleaves
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Residence: Austin, TX
Musical Idiom: Americana
Current Release: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
Release date: April 21, 2009
Recorded at: Rootball Studio- Austin, TX
Produced by: Gurf Morlix, Charles Arthur, Billy Harvey and Slaid Cleaves; Except “Black T-Shirt” and “Run Jolee Run” produced by Charles Arthur and recorded by Stewart Myers at White Star Sound
Louisa, VA, with additional recording by Gurf Morlix; mixed by Gurf Morlix. "Cry" produced and recorded by Billy Harvey at The
Bee Hive, Austin, TX, and mixed by Lars Göransson at Sounds Outrageous, Austin, TX.
Discography: Unsung, released 2006
Wishbones, released 2004
Broke Down, released 2000
Holiday Sampler EP, released 2001
No Angel Knows, released 1997
For the Brave and Free, released 1993, reissued 2001
Life’s Other Side, released 1992, reissued 1997
The Promise/Looks Good From the Road, released 1990, reissued 1998
US Radio: Jenni Finlay
jenni [at] jennifinlay.com
US Press: Natalie Darrah
natalie [at] musicroadrecords.com
US Booking: Karen Cleaves
kjcleaves [at] grandecom.net
UK Press: Del Day
arkpr [at] aol.com
UK Distribution: Proper Music
proper.info [at] properonline.co.uk
US Distribution: Select-O-Hits
mquerry [at] selectohits.com
Benelux Distribution: Munich Records
ben [at] munichrecords.com
What They Are Saying
“The Austin–based, Maine–born singer–songwriter is back with his first album of original music since Wishbones dropped over five years ago. Combine the above average writing with the production skills of longtime Cleaves collaborator Gurf Morlix (who also contributes his legendary guitar on Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away) and you’ve got yourself a frontrunner for Americana album of the year.”
— Popmatters.com
“Everything You Love plays seamlessly, like one of Lucinda Williams’ classic early albums, pristine, honest, and lingering.”
— Austin Chronicle
“Bleak but beautiful.”
— NY Daily News
“Cleaves is at the pinnacle of his craft, and moving into sublime new lyrical and musical territory.”
— Houston Press
“Slaid Cleaves is a natural talent who records all too infrequently . . . The two songs that open the album, “Cry” and “Hard to Believe,” rank among his best.
— Texas Monthly