New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Green Light Go) At 27-years-old,
Angela Perley's nostalgic and high-energy music tells stories of love, death, railroads, and everything in-between. Her songs are rooted in small town Ohio where she spent much of her childhood wandering in her family's cornfields, enveloped in her own world of dreams and imagination. She wrote numerous plays and poetry and would often perform her works to her family and friends. Countless hours were later spent listening to Patsy Cline, The Carter Family, Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan,
Wanda Jackson, and Billy Holiday while she grew fond of writers and poets like John Yeats, Mark Twain, and Sylvia Plath.
"It would be a serious disservice to
Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons to simply say that they were just another 'Americana' or 'County' band with 'Rock and Roll Roots' or whatever tired shit someone's likely said in the past. Truth is there's a lot more to The Howlin' Moon sound than just a pretty singer and a sound that Middle
America can hold on to. The Howlin' Moons are a veteran, air tight band with serious chops." -Robert Dean, MoonRunners Magazine
"My songs are very visual to me and I often think of them as little motion pictures. I get a lot of my inspiration from old movies because there are so many epic tales of lost love." Perley paints portraits of towns, landscapes, and people with her unique lyrics and phrasing and does so with a soul and vision that is well beyond her years.
As Jackie Mantey of the Columbus Alive states, "Hearing [Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons'] songs is like being transported to a forgotten time, when breaking bread together was a religion and kisses were best stolen by the railroad tracks."
The moon is another one of Perley's many muses, and has been a recurring thread in her songwriting. Perley's lifelong romance with the moon began with her being born on a full moon and always feeling connected to it and its various phases with many of her life-changing events falling on a full moon. A fortune-teller once revealed that her ruler card was "The Moon" and she was "The Magician."
Angela Perley & the Howlin' Moons formed in Columbus, Ohio in 2009. The band is comprised of two longtime friends, Billy Zehnal (bass) and Chris Connor (lead guitar), and Perley's high-school classmate Steve Rupp (drums). Connor and Zehnal were first introduced to Perley through Fred Blitzer (Vital
Music USA) who had discovered her music from some homemade demos a friend had passed onto him. Connor who was unaware that Rupp and Perley had attended the same high school later introduced Rupp to the band.
Since their incarnation, The Howlin' Moons have become an extension of Perley's songwriting and the band's sound has been gradually evolving. In the last three years, the band has released four EPs,
Black Cat (2010), Yellow Moon (2011), Fireside (2011) and Nowhere is Now Here (December 2012). Nowhere is Now Here is by far the most rocking EP in the collection through its well-balanced sound of aggression and intimacy. Before you know it, you'll be crumpling up a letter from your ex-lover in "Brooklyn Girls," threatening that cheating man in "18 Feet Under" or even experiencing your first love at the "County Fair". Don't be fooled by Angela's charm, though. This young woman will make you fall in love while she sings of love, heartbreak, and even murder.
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Praise for
Angela Perley & the Howlin' Moons
"She and her band, the Howlin' Moons, light a match and set fire to the five tracks that make up the group's E.P., Nowhere Is Now Here. "18 Feet Under" is gossip delivered with a bit of homicidal advice. "Brooklyn Girls" is a heartbreak tune from the one left behind that allows
Angela Perley to fully crawl into the emotion. The pleas are tangible; the hurt physically seeps from the song." -Danny McCloskey - The Alternate Route
"Nowhere Is Now Here is the strongest EP from Perley to date. With a fresh, modern take on folk, bluegrass and Southern rock, this girl has once again proved herself to be one of Ohio's finest." -Carolyn Menyes - ACRN Radio
"I come across some real gems and this is one of them... 18 Feet Under has a rockabilly vibe to it... love her sound, love her voice." -Twang Nation
"Angela Perley was another pleasant surprise, bopping her way through sassy saloon ramblers and an exotic ballad or two with her crack band the Howlin' Moons." -Chris DeVille - Columbus Alive
"Singer-songwriter
Angela Perley's voice has the sweet ring of country queens like
Lucinda Williams and
Wanda Jackson with the ache and heart of folk favorite Martha Wainwright." -Buzz Bin Magazine
"Angela has an earthy grounding in cross genre alt country, imbued with the spirit of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, but with a tangible contemporary spark." -Allan
Wilkinson - Northern Sky
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