May Erlewine - What It Takes
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Information
- Artist : May Erlewine
- Label : 10 Good Songs
- Format : 1 x 12"(140g)
- Country : United States
- Genres : FolkSinger Songwriter
- Estimated shipping date : April 2025
Description
With her electric new album, May Erlewine delivers powerful anthems of resilience with empowered grit and fire. Some might call it a departure from her previous work, but for her…it’s coming home.
What It Takes, produced by Theo Katzman, was recorded in the Northwoods of Michigan, live in a small room at Cinnamon Ranch. Erlewine invited her bandmates to dig in, unleashing a level of fortifying energy to accompany her vulnerable writing. Captured and mixed by Nick Nagurka, the band features Theo Katzman on drums, Phil Cook on piano and keys, Packy Lundholm on guitar and Joel Gottschalk on bass. The end result is a satisfying, tone filled offering from some very tender humans.
What It Takes is definitely a new album, but there’s an element of familiarity that suggests Erlewine is returning to parts of herself that have been there all along.
What It Takes will be released in the spring of 2025 and May Erlewine will be touring throughout the Midwest for a special run of full band release shows.
One of the Midwest’s most prolific and passionate songwriters, May continues to share
her gift for writing songs of substance that feel both new and soulfully familiar. Her lyrics
offer a window into her heartbreak, her empowerment, and her emboldened spirit.
May considers her career in the music industry as a service-oriented one and uses her
platform for positive change. She stresses the importance of environmental advocacy,
social justice, creative empowerment, and community building as necessary work in our
world. May's body of work has become an anthem and an example of why we need to
listen to women, empower women, and why we need to hear their stories.
With a long list of full-length albums and numerous collaborations, May Erlewine’s
catalog is proof of her creative power. Her work has been spotlighted by Rolling Stone
and NBC’s “The Voice” and covered by countless artists. Erlewine’s 2020 release,
“Anyway,” a collaboration with Woody Goss (vulfpeck), showcases her diversity as a
singer featuring the newly acclaimed song, “Days Go By.” Her 2017 album. Mother Lion,
produced by Tyler Duncan (vulfpeck) and backed by Joe Dart, Theo Katzman, Woody
Goss and Joshua Pinkham (Jeremy Kittel), has become an Indie favorite most notably
for the empowering single “Never One Thing.” Her newest album, The Real Thing
produced by Theo Katzman, highlights her songwriting recorded live at his studio in the
Northern Woods of Michigan.
Among her successes, perhaps her biggest accomplishment is that her music has
touched people all over the world. Her words have held solace for weary hearts, offered
a light in the darkness, and held a lot of space for the pain and joy of being alive. When
she starts to sing, there’s no way around it: welcome in, everyone. The door is wide
open.