Artist description Art Mayes writes songs on a refurbished Simon&Patrick Luthier Acoustic/Electric. He can't help but smile alot when a song he writes is a challenge to play, and hopes that same feeling will envelop listeners when they discover that it's fun to listen to.

Music Style Independent

Musical Influences Ani DiFranco, Dave Matthews, The Cure, James Taylor

Similar Artists Like a cross between Ani DiFranco and Elliot Smith

Artist History Art is a young singer/songwriter who's trying to explore the extreme ends of what an acoustic guitar can do. He's also hung-up on lyrical content. He started playing guitar in 1995, locked himself in a room with cheese quesadillas, cigarettes, one beat-up guitar and a few illicit substances for roughly three years, and emerged with 15 songs, which he then recorded with the Noon Blue Apples Project. His new album, "artmayes", has finished post-production and is currently available. See http://artmayes.indiegroup.com for more info.

Group Members The aforementioned fellow whose initials are AM.

Instruments An acoustic guitar, a voice, and a strange sense of rhythm.

Albums with Midian: "The Human Aspect"; with Midian Rose: "Appetizer", ". . .And Fell"; "Art Mayes and Noon Blue Apples" with the Noon Blue Apples Project. Current: Art Mayes /"artmayes"

Press Reviews "It's good, but it's not my thing." - Blood Rituals"This is 'sit back and zone' music. So that's what I did." - Protean Network"This is nothing like early-Beatles, and nothing like Marilyn Manson, and nothing like Michael Jackson. If I have to compare it to something, lock Billy Corgan and "Sixpence None the Richer" in a studio together for a week with a bag of weed, and they might come up with 'Noon Blue Apples'." - RAW Review

Location Wilmington, Delaware - USA

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