My 6th album, 'Fast Mikey Blue Eyes' due Oct 30 via Landfill Records.

He’s been accused of trafficking in “Outsider Americana.” Perhaps a better handle for Mike Felten’s highly distinctive musical approach would be “Chicagoana.” The Windy City is deeply and inexorably ingrained in the veteran singer-songwriter’s mesmerizing musical odes, right down to the names of streets that he’s wandered down and the shady characters haunting them in decades past. Mike knows where all the bones are buried and he’s not shy about letting us in on the secrets, blending folk, blues, and rock influences to spread the news.

Even in the middle of a pandemic, Mike’s muse hasn’t deserted him.

Mike Felten - Vocals/Guitar
Pete Mazzeri - Bass
Gary Landess - Drums
Corky Siegel - Harmonica (1, 5)
Harmonica Hinds - Harmonica (2, 3, 7, 8)
Barry Goldberg - Keys (1, 2)
Jamie Wagner - Keys (3, 8, 11)
Bob Long - Keys (7, 10, 12)
Brad Elvis - Drums (1, 2)

Victor Sanders - Recording, Mixing, Mastering

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Fast Mikey Blue Eyes

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My 6th album, 'Fast Mikey Blue Eyes' due Oct 30 via Landfill Records.

He’s been accused of trafficking in “Outsider Americana.” Perhaps a better handle for Mike Felten’s highly distinctive musical approach would be “Chicagoana.” The Windy City is deeply and inexorably ingrained in the veteran singer-songwriter’s mesmerizing musical odes, right down to the names of streets that he’s wandered down and the shady characters haunting them in decades past. Mike knows where all the bones are buried and he’s not shy about letting us in on the secrets, blending folk, blues, and rock influences to spread the news.

Even in the middle of a pandemic, Mike’s muse hasn’t deserted him.

Mike Felten - Vocals/Guitar
Pete Mazzeri - Bass
Gary Landess - Drums
Harmonica Hinds - Harmonica (2, 3, 7, 8)
Barry Goldberg - Keys (1, 2)
Jamie Wagner - Keys (3, 8, 11)
Bob Long - Keys (7, 10, 12)
Brad Elvis - Drums (1, 2)

Victor Sanders - Recording, Mixing, Mastering

mikefelten.com

Homan Avenue

Chasing A Rumor

A Girl Walks Into A Bar

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Dead Old Girlfriend

3 Drinks In

Somewhere tonight, Mike Felten is stepping up on another stage.He has been doing this for decades. .
The Illinois Entertainer tells us he is the "real deal".
He tells us that the weathered Martin guitar in his hand is his shovel and that the old Harmony Sovereign waiting for the slide is his plow. He is a workingman; a Johnny Lunchbucket. What he does isn't folk, a kind of blues, a bit of rock. All the influences forged in the tempest  like a late night omelet at some ancient diner.  
The stories come like another cup of joe at a Ron-Ric or a Standees. Some names you recognize. Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. Nelson Algren and Gene Autry. Maybe even a Paddy Bauler or a Hillary Rodham..Open mics when a John Prine got up and did three. Pete Seger and Utah Phillips listened.
Some names you never heard before but some you'll never forget. Short Pencil Lewis. Benny Peeps or Trailways Barkle. shares his stage. 
There are the places too. The hardscrabble neighborhoods of Chicago. The years in the copper country of Michigan, hauling your own water and cutting your own wood. All the long highway nights getting to the next gig, the next town. All the fleabag motels and character building one nighters at the K of C or some Elks Lodge. A thousand dive bars and a bunch of sit down theaters. Parking lots and farmer's markets. Under the bridge and up in the ski lodge.
He sings to remember and sometimes to forget.

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