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posted by A1 Mark, Interview and Podcast, October 22, 2009
An interview with Laurie featuring songs from the
new CD!
This show aired on KCOR Kansas City Online Radio 10/24/09
7pm CST
and also KCR-FM - Australia
"Laurie Morvan will be talking about her new record
that just came out two days ago called Fire It Up. You will
also be hearing some of the fiery tracks from the record."
Fire It Up is Laurie Morvan’s fourth record and third
with the Laurie Morvan Band. As the title implies this is
a record that is ready to catch fire. It should do so both
in popularity as well as with the good old blues rockin’
sound it provides. Nothing this good happens with out lots
of hard work and Laurie has sure paid her dues. Growing
up in Illinois in the US her father walked out on her and
her mother when she was only five years old. They struggled
for many years till her mother remarried. The new family
bought some property in rural Illinois where they built
their own home with their own hands. Laurie played flute
in the high school band, drums in the marching band, and
managed to earn twelve varsity letters during her four years
there. This is the same time she took up the guitar which
she thought was the greatest thing ever. Laurie went to
college to get a degree in Electrical Engineering. She also
went to the Institute of Aviation and got a license for
private, commercial, instrument, and a multi-engine pilot’s
license. She also got a full scholarship for playing volleyball.
As Laurie says in the show after college she moved to Los
Angeles to take a job in the aerospace industry or to play
in a rock band. Well, she moved there to do one of them
and the other just happened to be there too.
Eventually playing in bands became a full time job with
all the spare time being used to practice the guitar. She
decided it was time to record a record but needed money
to do it right. Laurie went back to school to get her Master’s
Degree in Applied Mathematics and taught math in college
until she had enough money to make her first record. The
band was call Backroad Shack and in 1997 they put out their
first record called Out In The Woods. The band changed the
name to Laurie Morvan Band and released Find My Way Home
in 2004. Cures What Ails Ya come out in 2007 to great acclaim
with articles about her appearing in Guitar Player, Vintage
Guitar and Blues Revue, among others. The CD made it into
the top five of the Blues Foundation’s Best Self-Produced
CD.
Now this week the Laurie Morvan Band has released their
fourth CD called Fire It Up.
Laurie described the first track “Nothin’ But
The Blues” as a front porch twinge country blues feel.
She said a friend called her and one day to tell her he
had a dream and she needed to quit doing blues and start
playing stadium rock. Laurie laughed and went on to explain
how much she loves the blues, how passionate she is for
the blues, and how she will be grinning on stage because
she loves what she is doing so much. For Laurie “Nothin’
But The Blues” is not just a song, it is a great passion
that comes through in her songs. Laurie said she likes walking
around the house with her guitar unplugged, practicing this
helps her to think. One day while doing this she came up
with the main riff of “Come On Over To My BBQ”
then had fun adding in a bunch of double entendres. She
said this song was made to have fun listening to and that
is very true. “Good Girls Bad Girls” is another
fun song about how people talk about someone else’s
problems but in the end they too have skeletons in their
closets. “Let Me Carry Your Troubles” is a very
nice acoustic ballad about one of her friends who was diagnosed
with breast cancer, luckily she is ok now and we have this
beautiful song. All the songs on Fire It Up were written
by Laurie Morvan. As you will hear in the show these songs
are just the start of a very good record that should be
getting even more attention than her last record. It takes
a lot of hard work to break out from the rest and get noticed
but as you have seen hard work has never stopped this passionate
blues rockin’ guitar loving’ player from accomplishing
what she wants. There is one thing left for you to do, go
to Laurie Morvan’s Website and buy this new CD then
Fire It Up.
Songs in the show are:
Skinny Chicks
Cafe Boogaloo
I Speak The Blues
Livin’ In A Mans World
Thanks to Laurie Morvan for taking time to be on the show.
Thanks to Mark Pucci for setting everything up.
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