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IRA MARLOWE: bio
Ira Marlowe has strolled with his guitar between the tables of a HOWARD JOHNSON'S.
He's performed at a CIRCUMCISION.
He's been courted by a BIG-TIME LOS ANGELES AGENT who (as it turns out) operated from the back of a wholesale bedding outlet.
In between occasional tastes of GLORY -- performances at THE FILLMORE, SLIMS, and THE GREAT AMEREICAN MUSIC HALL -- Marlowe has endured all that a life on the fringes of the music business can offer. After fifteen years, five smarmy managers, and three failed record deals, you'd think he'd have the good sense to quit.
Instead, he's just released his best work ever.
SAVE THE DAY is a colorful parade of ghosts, vampires, posers, gurus, fugitives, robots, saviours and drunks. It's a CD about fear, but also about strength. Most of all it's about the struggle to find humor and balance in an increasingly maddening and out-of-balance world.
Shuttled from town to town while growing up with his anthropologist parents, Marlowe listened to everything from Gershwin to Hendrix to Western Swing to West Side Story. At age 13 he sold enough greeting cards, door-to-door, to earn himself a
"Folktune Wood Guitar", and at 19 he began to write songs. In the years since, he's developed a literate, narrative style often described as "cinematic" -- drawing comparisons to Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen, and Robyn Hitchcock.
In 2000, Marlowe joined forces with versatile guitarist ROGER LINN, inventor of the first programmable drum machine.
The two perform as an acoustic/electric duo, and also as a full band when accompanied by bassist DON BASSEY.
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