Fracasso's first full length album, with a classic country folk feel. Featuring " a duet with Lucinda Williams, "Door #1" and the Buddy Hollyesque "Thing About You"

13 MP3 Songs in this album (47:26) !
Related styles: Folk: Alternative Folk, Pop: Pop Underground, Type: Acoustic

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Details:
Michael Fracasso is a badass folkie with a sweet Italian tenor and has been compared to legendary singers Roy Orbison and Gene Pitney. He resides in Austin, TX where he was voted best new artist upon his arrival in 1990 by Third Coast Music Magazine. An acclaimed songwriter, he has recorded with Charlie Sexton, Lucinda Williams and Patty Griffin and recently has cuts on Ribbons of Highway: Tribute to Woody Guthrie recording. His seventh CD, Red Dog Blues(May 2007) was number one on the Americana Charts in Europe. He will be touring in Europe in Spring 2009.

Touring Highlights: Blue Highways Festival Utrecht, Holland 2008, Patty Griffin Tour 2003/2006, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2006, 2003, Newport Folk Festival, Pocketful of Rain Tour/JAPAN 2005 & 2008, Bumbershoot, UK/IRELAND Tour 2005, Woody Guthrie Ribbons of Highway Tour, Sos del Rey Catolico Festival/SPAIN, Kerrville Folk Festival, Live Oak Music Festival, Old Settlers Bluegrass Festival, Down on the Farm Festival/NORWAY.


Discography: Love & Trust (1993) DejaDisc, When I lived in the Wild (1995) BohemiaBeat, World in a Drop of Water (1998) BohemiaBeat, Back to Oklahoma (2001) India Records, Pocketful of Rain (2004) Texas Music Group, Retrospective (2004) Texas Music Group, Red Dog Blues (2007)

Compilations: Ribbons of Highway: Tribute to Woody Guthrie (2008) KGSR Broadcast Vol. 3, Vol. 9, Vol.12, Frisco Mabel Joy Revisited: For Micky Newbury (2001) Apple Seed, Postcards From the Other Side (1999) Lazy Cat â JAPAN, Love is a Four-Legged Word (1997) Austin Humane Society, Return to Zero â Hamilton Pool â (1995) Watermelon, Pastures of Plenty (1993) DejaDisc

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