Welcome to Michael Frey's website

 

 

"Close To Home", a travelogue of the spirit . . .

Michael's new CD is a musical journey across the open plains, through red rock canyons, inside the heart and out along the bayou...here lies the passage of time, beauty, loss, inspiration, and life’s universal quandaries.  Frailing banjo, saxophone, B3 organ and Cajun accordion drop in and out of the scenery behind Michael's resonant voice and masterful guitar.

 
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A Review of "Close To Home" from The Santa Barbara Independent

Michael Frey has been one of Santa Barbara's more predictably enjoyable and kindly songsters for years, and his new CD is a good primer in the range of his work. Folk may be his general purpose category, but Frey freely surfs other subcategories, from James Taylor-colored tunesmithing to easy-does-it New Orleans music sauce on "Chasin' That Dollar Down" and "The Bayou Teche." Romantic escapist instincts, and a nice chordal twist, prevail on "Way Out in the Desert" and a nice Band-ish twang shows up on "Nothing Love Wouldn't Cure" and "Late Bloomer." A fine guitar player who resists the temptation to overplay, Frey sings without pretense and colors these tracks with contributions from some of the finest players on the block, including Brian Mann on organ and Bill Flores on this and that.      by Walt Rego
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      CLOSE TO HOME

  1. Makin' It Up 
  2. Way Out In The Desert 
  3. Nothing Love Wouldn't Cure
  4. Chasin' That Dollar Down
  5. Cupid & Pan 
  6. Old Soul
  7. Anymore
  8. Late Bloomer
  9. Take It Back 
  10. The Bayou Teche
  11. Not Too Sweet
  12. Light On The Valley

    To listen to song samples or buy the cd online, click here: www.cdbaby.com/frey.  You can also order by telephone, just call 1-800-BUY-MY-CD.

 

Upcoming Shows

Most Friday nights at Aldo's Restaurante in Santa Barbara with Marty Van Loan on percussion, 1031 State Street,  805-963-6687

Some Fridays at The Plow & Angel Bistro at San Ysidro Ranch, Montecito

New dates being added regularly . . . bookmark this site & visit again.

 

Please call ahead to confirm shows in case of schedule changes.  All shows in California unless otherwise noted.

 

For booking or to purchase CD by mail ($17 s&h included) contact: 

Leslie Merical at Three Angels & A Saint Music, PO Box 476, Ventura, CA 93002

or email: michael@michaelfrey.com

 

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Please drop me a line while you're here and thank you for visiting  . . .  Michael

mjf@dslextreme.com