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Mars Arizona
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Artist Information Biography Perhaps it takes an imaginary small town to shed light on an imaginary America reeling in myth over reality. Well, welcome back Mars Arizona, the folksy but feisty duo blasting off from a fictional town somewhere in the Southwest into contemporary American reality with their latest release – Hello Cruel World. Firing poetic slings and arrows at a world gone mad, Hello Cruel World peers at our modern landscape with wit, hard driving energy and a wise nod of the head at a seemingly unjust world. This is the third release from Mars Arizona on Big Barn Records distributed by Burnside Distribution. Their 2005 effort, All Over The Road garnered them rave reviews from many publications including Harp, Stomp and Stammer, Performing Songwriter, and Nashville Scene and a feature in No Depression. The record was also well-received by Americana radio and peaked at #41 on the AMA radio charts. A U.S. tour that year took them from San Francisco to New York via Nashville, where they made many friends and fans. Great art is defined and framed by the artists' interaction with and reflection on the immediate and wider world they inhabit. Mars Arizona's Nicole Storto and Paul Michael Knowles have checked out both their local and global spheres and have created a tenacious album of beauty, tragedy, trauma and energetic urgency with this new offering. Their vibrations resonate with a country bluegrass mournfulness that evokes a stock take of the mess the shop
