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Hi darlings. The study of humankind and all kinds is my business. There's no better way to gather stories than to travel and sing. As a song writer, I make no apologies for being eclectic. I write in any and every genre of music, but people say I am Americana or Indie Country Style. I love great poetry, classic country like Bob Wills and Loretta Lynn. I love mother nature, pirates, Peterbilts, vintage cars, red wine and irish whiskey! Spending the summer in the land of milk'n'honey (Wisconsin) was paradise. Blessings! From one songwriter fest _ the Holiday Music Motel to another! Frank Brown in Perdido Key was a long overdue homecoming. Sang at the Florabama and the Silver Moon stopping off to see my friends in Cullman, AL before Nashville where Rob and I co-wrote my new favorite song. After a little more travelin, it'll be a Door County Christmas and then back to sunshine and singin. Hope to see you out on the road!

~ Miss Meaghan

Biography Miss Meaghan Owens-----with lyrics sweet and switchblade sharp Meaghan Owens offers songs that are glimpses of America---always insightful, sometimes funny, and sometimes sad. She sings in the voices of her characters. Listen, and you'll hear young sweethearts, vagabonds, whisky-drunk preachers, wild girls ready to fight, and French cabaret songbirds. Her sound is Indie. It's Country. It's Folk. It's filled with subtle connections to Jazz and the Blues. She seeks out the songs that live way down in our dreams and despairs. The lyrics are filled with glamour and grit. Owens is a Midwestern girl who has rambled all over the place. She has toured extensively in the U.S.---from smoke-filled Austin honky tonks, to Milwaukee punk rock clubs, to California folk gatherings. She has shared the stage and opened for many musicians, including national country and folks acts Junior Brown, Ramblin Jack Elliott, and some legendary nashville cats (including the late Don Helms, pedal steel legend for Hank Williams Sr., Loretta Lynn, and Patsy Cline and Buddy Spicher). She also has been billed with Tracy Grammer, Stella Parton, Jim Lauderdale, and Phil Lee.Never afraid of hard work, Owens pays her dues in Nashville and on the road. That includes everything from rockabilly vintage car shows, touring with the world-famous Wall of Death trick motorcycle riders, to classy venues such as The Brink, Bluebird Café, Shank Hall, Stage Door, and Stage North. She is honored to be included in many music and songwriting festivals: Summerfest, Steel Bridge Songwriter Festival, and Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival. Owens' music is multilingual with lyrics not only in English or with an Irish lilt but also in Swedish, French, and Russian---depending on the story she is musically sharing with her intrigued and appreciative audiences.Currently, Meaghan is touring, working with G4V (Guitars For Vets), writing, and spending time in Nashville, Milwaukee, and Madison. She recently completed her second CD, Gun Shy of a Kiss.
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Bleed for Me
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"Miss Meaghan Owens is a veteran of Nashville clubs, Summerfest shows, songwriting showcases like the Steel Bridge Festival and many, many miles touring in a van. Armed with a laser wit in her lyrics, a bushel basket of songs artists twice her age would be proud of and charm to burn, the troubadour is a comforting presence on stage. Owens effortlessly fuses Americana, rootsy pop, nu-folk, old-school style country and blues....I am always captivated by her."--Paddy Fineran/Racine Journal Times, scene262.comIf Marie Osmond is a little bit country and a little bit rocknroll, Owens is also that and more. ~Molly Snider-Edler, music reviewer, www.onmilwaukee.com "Miss Meaghan Owens' voice is so downright filled with meaning and sass that I don't quite know how to describe it. Owens is a delight as a person and a treat as a storyteller. Don't let her "cute" fool ya either. She can sing a song that'll make you blush, but the next one can make you want to watch your back on the way out and the whole way home. She is a memorable songwriter and I wouldn't just take it from me, check her out."--Green Arrow Radio Review/ DJ Mister G Feb 13, 2011“This girl is an awesome one of a kind entertainer with a totally different twist on songwriting. She’s not a cookie cutter singer, she has her own special style, that's my opinion and I am stickin’ to it!”--Roy August (author of OAK RIDGE BOYS hit song Fancy Free)“How do like that little girl? She’s the genuine article!”--Folk music legend/5 time grammy winner-- Ramblin Jack ElliottThis Milwaukee singer-songwriter has a languid delivery and a quirky composing style Accompanied by her own electric guitar playing, its a collection notable for its spare, stark production and oddball, ear-catching novelties. ~Robert K. Oermann, music reviewer, Nashville Star Judge, Music Row Magazine This songwriter and musician completely absorbed Joni Mitchell’s classic album Court and Spark among many other influences in writing and recording one of the most musically ambitious recent album by any solo indie artist, Gun Shy of a Kiss. The project featured nearly 40 musicians including a quartet from the Milwaukee Symphony string section, and arrangements by Sigmund Snopek III and top area jazzers Warren Weigratz and Jeff Pietrangelo. So she mixes high-bred style with barroom ballsiness like few musicians in recent memory. But the album wears its musical weight gracefully, unpretentiously, delightfully. “Gun Shy” resembles Mitchell’s iconic album only in the subtlest of ways -- like the quirky complex harmonic swerves of “Music and the Moonshine,” and the musical savvy and vision. But all her sass and romance can’t hide a poet’s sense and roots musician’s soul. She deftly paints pictures of the wayward road, of “bad news,” of life’s dark side -- and of humanity’s tough spirit.Kevin Lynch, freelance writer,The Shepherd Express, nodepression.comAWARDS 2007 WAMI nominee for best Bluegrass/Americana Artist Top 200 Albums of 2010 Green Arrow Radio-Madison, WI for Gunshy of a Kiss MUSIC No Whiskey in a Good Girl's River (CD)available at missmeaghanowens.bandcamp.comor www.cdbaby.com/meaghanowensGun Shy of a Kissavailable at missmeaghanowens.bandcamp.comor www.usatalentlive.comFor booking, please email meaghan_missmeaghanowens.com VENUESVenues include Shank Hall, The Blue Bird Cafe, The Brink Lounge, and the Florabama. Please click here for a complete listing.
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