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My Yearly New Year’s Ode

  In the last remaining hours of another year about to end I just had to take a moment and thank you for being my friend The world was better 'cause you were here and the moments we shared were dear to me And I can't…

Playing O+!!! – The O Positive Festival

  I've lived in the city of Kingston, New York for over 10 years. It is my home, in a way that no other place has ever been. Which makes me particularly proud to have been accepted for a wonderful, nationally-growing event - The…

A lovely review…

As anyone knows who already has the album... When I set out to make Born Wired, I wanted to honor the rock and roll that bit me as a kid. Well, I just got a lovely review from Mike Campbell at The Chronogram magazine, who totally got…

My Yearly New Year’s Ode

  In the last remaining hours of another year about to end I just had to take a moment and thank you for being my friend The world was better 'cause you were here and the moments we shared were dear to me And I can't…

Girls Like You – the video

I LOVE making videos.  I love planning them, shooting them, and editing them. The idea for this one was  (for the vast majority of it) to shoot it with a single view, and create most of the activity with just edits.  And to heighten the…

Come get KICKED this weekend!

Gonna be joining my friends from Mister Kick for a freewheeling night of music at Keegan Ales on Saturday, July 22nd at 9pm. To make it even sweeter, we'll be joined by my longtime friend and guitar genius Dave Fields for the night. …

A custom line of MM strings. Too Cool.

So those of you who have been following the Born Wired Indiegogo campaign know that the fine folks from MJC Ironworks have kindly offered custom sets of strings for the campaign. And just today, the first prototype for the tin that will contain…

Born Wired reviewed at IndieBandGuru

The folks at IndieBandGuru just posted a really lovely review of Born Wired: "Imagine it’s the first day out of school and you need that one song to set you over the edge. Well, Mark Marshall made plenty of em. The album is jam-packed with…

Born Wired featured and trending at Indiegogo

Wow... just... well, wow. The Born Wired crowdfunding campaign is trending at Indiegogo, and is featured in their Arts & Film collection. And we've just met 30% of the funding. So very grateful.  

MM returns to the Artist First Radio Network

  In June 2007, Mark joined host Scott "Zman" Z. for a free-wheeling 80-minute interview about life, music and the release of "New Eye", on the Artist First Radio Network. Ten years to the month later, Mark rejoined Scott to talk…

The Born Wired album is DONE.

After about five years, and countless hours, the Born Wired album is finally FINISHED. 13 tracks - 10 originals and 3 covers... it's some of the best stuff I've ever done. Within the next 3 weeks, you'll see an Indiegogo campaign to get…

A tip for Bandcamp artists… making download cards.

An absolutely foolproof method for making download cards with Bandcamp and just plain Avery labels. I use Bandcamp to get my music out there.  It's an awesome tool for artists - not just for selling music, but for different means of distributing…

A wonderful night at The Falcon

Just a followup on the Falcon gig on the 27th! These guys just slammed it.  Had an amazing time.  We had a few technical difficulties, but it was a great first foray, and we're itching to do it again! And speaking of slamming it…

A VERY special show.

  Those of you who follow me know that I rarely, if ever, play my original material live. Well, that's about to change. On January 27th, I'll be opening for the Blues/Soul master Slam Allen at The Falcon in Marlboro, NY, playing…

My yearly ode

My yearly ode. Happiest and healthiest and most love-filled of New Year's to you and yours. <3

New Year’s Eve with the Dave Fields All-Stars!

I'll be sitting in with my buddy - and musical wizard - Dave Fields for a slamming New Year's Eve celebration at Ranchero Cantina in Emerson, NJ! This is going to be a BLAST. If you're looking for an awesome New Year's - well... here you…
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Once upon a time, there was an Awesome podcast. Farewell, with love.

Once upon a time, back in 2007... I had this album called New Eye. And as indie musicians were want to do, I was searching for places where I might, possibly, maybe if I was lucky... get my music played... (and, if I was incredibly lucky,…

OOH! The tracks! 🙂

So as the time gets nearer, I thought I'd post a tracklist for the new albums.  This is NOT necessarily the final order.  🙂 Born Wired Where I play Secret In Love Again You Used Ta Just The Man No Time Sally Runaway Dream Bend Glide Come…
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Born Wired cover

So here's my dilemma. Jess pointed out that some folks might not know what my initial cover design said if they didn't know the album title. So I put it to you... can you read the first B/W version, or should I go with one where all of…
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Join me…

I've been playing and recording multiple instruments since I was 11 - and recording full songs since I was about 13. Most of this activity occurred alone in a room.  Fast forward a bunch of years, and the room is way better - but most…

Welcome to mark marshall .com v4!

Well hey there. Welcome to markmarshall.com V4.  Yep - this is the 4th version of my site since it started way back in 1998 - pictured above. (No, really.  Here... you can go visit it in 2001.   🙂 ) It was long overdue for…
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Happy New Year (again)

My yearly ode to you. <3

A bit of family history (video)

My father, aunts and uncle singing songs from way back... at a family gathering in Harwich Port, MA.