Mary Melena
If you cruise the late nite/early morning campfires at the Kerrville (Texas) Folk Festival, eventually you'll run across Mary Melena. Mary settles in, tunes up and quietly reminds all the pickers down there, around 5a.m., that when it comes down to it, they don't know a damn thing about tone, dynamics, or what a guitar can do. Townes Van Zandt said she's "the best girl guitarist since Bonnie Raitt." We don't know about that, but at 5a.m., nobody sounds better than Mary Melena.

Mary studied classical guitar at the Music Conservatory at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, using her technique as a starting point to reach into folk, traditional and jazz stylings. She won First Place for her guitar technique at the Kansas State Championships before relocating to the Austin music scene, and has performed at Uncle Calvin's in Dallas, and Urban Campfires in San Antonio. Her music has been featured on NPR's "Morning Edition."
Something Passing Through
released 1996, Waterbug Records

Mary Melena CD

Something passing through
CD $15.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003

1. Evelyn's Polaroids
2. Sounds Like Rain
3. Courtship of the Brown Recluse Play
4. Salvation
5. Brothers
6. Torture
7. Au Jardin d'Amour
8. Reception
9. Trouble
10. Guru
11. The Island
12. Cautiously Optimistic
13. Path of Least Resistance