Biography
Mars or the Moon is the songwriting vision of Joe Hart and Lani Williams. Live Lenen Nicola most often accompanies them on percussion. With the release of their CD, they have been doing more full band shows. On record they have been joined by some musical heavy weights. Most notably Dane Clark and Jon E. Gee of John Mellencamp’s band are the handling the duties in the rhythm section. Clarence Hooks adds Piano, Bob Fields provides sweet Hammond Organ tones, Stacia Demos plays accordion and Kipp Normand plays saw to give them a lush, organic richness that rocks so much harder than their coffee house folksy roots.
These songs were captured brilliantly by Eric Klee Johnson and Marc Johnson at the Pop Machine, and Mastered by Andy Vandette at Masterdisk in New York City.
On the strength of their past musical efforts they have been able to play 100’s of shows with no demo to support them. They have already opened shows for Americana Music Legends, James McMurtry, Todd Snider, Bill Miller and David Lindley. They have wowed the crowd opening a sold out show for British Music Legend, John Waite. They have opened for the critically acclaimed songwriter, Jonatha Brooke, and jammed with her after the show for hours in the dressing room (Jonatha even mentioned it in her ‘tour blog’ of her web site). Most recently they have opened for Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde and Over The Rhine, Pat DiNizio of the Smithreens a second time, and Diane Birch.
Instrumentation
Lani Williams, Vocals and Guitar
Joe Hart, Guitars and Vocal
Lenen Nicola, Percussion
Kevin Silva, Keyboards
Roger Osburn, Bass
Glen Hopkins Drums
Discography
The Price of Love LP on Indie 500 records. Airplay on www.woxy.com, 92.3 WTTS FM, WRZX X-103 FM, KPIG FM and AM San Fran Bay area, Goshen College Radio 91.1 FM The Globe. WBSU Ball State Student Radio, WFHB Bloomington Public Radio. Whole album streams on www.marsorthemoon.com and full Radio interview and complete album on www.houseohits.com (Click Radio, then Click archieved shows)
Links
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