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MARK HUFF'S HISTORY
Though he was born in Florida, Huff is about as close to a native of Las Vegas as one can boast. With his rough-hewn lyrics, Huff is able to strip away the blinking neon and feathered showgirls and chronicle an ordinary city where people plug away at ordinary lives. In the tradition of great songwriters such as Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, Huff is a keen observer of small, telling details. Las Vegas was a challenging place to make independent, original music, but Huff forged ahead and built a loyal following. Huff decided to make the move to Nashville in January 2003. Living in Nashville gave Huff a new perspective on his songwriting. "There are so many talented songwriters here. I felt I had to raise the bar on myself," said Huff. Music City has been good to Huff. He was able to record his fifth album, Gravity, with the help of some of Nashville's greatest musicians. He also quickly built an allegiant group of fans. Mark Huff's music is certified road-ready. It's music that's built to last and travel far. Long before he sets foot in a studio, every song must pass the performance test. Fans he's gathered touring across the U.S. and Europe can attest to how well Huff's music works live. It moves as beautifully as some old roadster, lovingly maintained by the original owner.
"Every year he's strapped on the old guitar, slipped a harmonica into his shirt pocket and gone back into the trenches has been an accomplishment; [Clean] is just another album, after all. It's also the best set of roots-rock he's ever recorded, bar none-- battle-tested through hundreds of live performances and as beautifully American as the fender of a Cadillac... skates the line between dodged idealism and bitter release, sometimes veering into one extreem but cutting back across the terminator before you can get a bead on it... Huff sings over a bed of lap steel and Hammond organ, but before you can really begin weeping into that beer, he fires up the crunchy guitars of "Built To Last" and heads for the highway top down.... Huff has the ins-and-outs of the charming subterfuge down pat-- he makes hard sound wasy, sad happy. And the boy still rocks like the real Son of Dylan... it's an honest statement, and if there were ever a time we needed one of those, it's now. And if nothing comes of it-- well, at least Huff still has the faith."
"Las Vegas' own Mark Huff is one such tunesmith. A storyteller with a self-command and emotional scope that relays both a familiar vulnerablity and an enviable sense of wisdom... Huff is remarkable because of his meoldic, graceful ability to expose humanity's everyday shortcomings--especially his own-- through song, with an understood balance and humility many of us don't have the will to exercse ourselves."
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