Miko Marks & The Resurrectors- Feels Like Going Home
Label: Redtone
Producers: Steve Wyreman and Justin Phipps
The story of Miko Marks’ winding musical journey is one of those great journeyman success stories that rarely get the chance to be told in today’s music world. She emerged in the mid-2000s with two indie-released projects that went criminally overlooked for three crucial factors that automatically strike out with closed-minded Music City gatekeepers: she sang traditional country, she was black, and she was a woman. It took nearly fifteen years for Marks to reemerge with last year’s Our Country, which effectively gave her a rebirth and set the stage for Feel Like Going Home, which feels like a full, victorious realization of her destiny to become a leading beacon in the world of roots music, in the same vein of women like Brandi Carlile, Yola, Patty Griffin, and the like. Marks’ massively revelatory chops are an experience all on their own, as she finds her stylistic heartbeat by melding roots genres like country, blues, soul and gospel in one sizzling cauldron of sonic goodness. Meanwhile, she’s assembled a crack supporting band, The Resurrectors, that match her astoundingly raw talent and ability to navigate between a plethora of sweet Southern sounds. This record really sounds like a grand tour throughout all of the varied origins of great Southern music; from the honky tonks and the muddy swamp to the church and the mountains. Meanwhile, Marks soulfully opines on guttural topics ranging from self-discovery, both spiritual and personal, to romantic discourse and social unrest. It’s an expansive record, both topically and stylistically, but one that is unified and centered throughout. Feel Like Going Home feels like both a gift from a bygone era, but an essential artistic statement for today’s world as well. Above else, it’s the long-awaited culmination of a talented artist finally finding the musical identity she was always destined to inhabit, becoming a critically key voice to watch in the future along the way.
Track Listing:
- “Feel Like Going Home” (Miko Marks, Steve Wyreman, Justin Phipps)
- “One More Night” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “River” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “This Time” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “Peace of Mind” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “Trouble” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “The Good Life” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “Deliver Me” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “The Other Side” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “Lay Your Burdens Down” (Marks, Wyreman, Phipps)
- “Jubilee” (Lee Bob Watson)
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