Search - Mark Weigel :: Green Acres

Green Acres is a compilation of original material recorded live in the studio. Mark Weigel, the songwriter, sings and plays the acoustic guitar on the CD, accompanied on vocals by his wife, Dyllan McGee. The concept for the project was born out of several songs written for Mark and Dyllan's friends' weddings. Other tunes on the album include: "Apple Town" - a song written for Dyllan, who was in New York at the time, while Mark was at graduate school in Boston; "Mr Mercy Train" - A song about a singer-songwriter friend of Mark's when Mark was playing solo gigs in Colorado; "Silly Girl" - a children's song written for Mark's niece Monica; "Oh, Nederland" - an anthem for the small mountain town in Colorado where Mark spent some post college days with his band the Chowder; and "Bad News, No Blues" - a live recording of when Mark performed at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA during his Graduate School days in Boston. Mark and Dyllan gave this CD out at their wedding to reasonable acclaim (that's what friends are for.) The genre of the album is folk rock in the style of James Taylor and Paul Simon.