Michael Slawter (et al) - Music Guide

A dB’s Repercussion Blog Guide

to the music of MICHAEL SLAWTER

Do they give every young kid in
Winston-Salem a guitar?!?

Michael was a prince to provide an extensive rarities collection for me to share here at the blog (see previous post). I want to return the favor — but also do you a favor if you don’t know the music he’s made as a solo artist and in collaboration with The Saving Graces and Slawterhaus 5.

Michael grew up in Winston-Salem, N.C. admiring The dB’s and Mitch Easter, absorbing their music and, later, applying what he learned while making his own. The two Saving Graces collections are superior alt-pop, and Michael’s first solo release, An Assassination of Someone You Knew (co-produced by Michael & Jamie Hoover of The Spongetones) is a waiting-to-be-discovered treasure.

Give the samples a listen,
use the links
and GO GET SOME GREAT MUSIC

The Saving Graces – These Stars Are For You EP (2002)
SAMPLE: "Hollywood Sunshine"

Amazon         eMusic         CDBaby (avail. in lossless at CDBaby)

The Saving Graces – Outside Guiding Lights (2004) 
SAMPLE: "Faster Than the Speed of Life"

iTunes         Amazon         eMusic         CDBaby (avail. in lossless at CDBaby)

 

Michael Slawter – An Assassination of Someone You Knew (2007) 

SAMPLE: "My Marion"

eMusic

 

Michael Slawter - Small Victories (best-of comp, 2011) 
SAMPLE: "Rare Violet"

iTunes         Amazon         eMusic         CDBaby (avail. in lossless at CDB)

Slawterhaus 5 – Slawterhaus 5 (2012) 

SAMPLE: "Giving Up the Ghost"

Bandcamp

  

Michael Slawter – Mick In ’69 EP (2013) 

SAMPLE: "Mick In '69"

Bandcamp

   

  
 
...and the oldest of the bunch,  Michael's first band to release an album:

 

Neidermeyer – For Those About to Pop (2001) 
SAMPLE: "(In a) Modern Day"

iTunes         eMusic         CDBaby (avail. in lossless at CDBaby)