{"id":41796,"date":"2018-10-25T12:28:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=41796"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:28:05","slug":"miles-maxwell-releases-new-album-red-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/10\/miles-maxwell-releases-new-album-red-ghost\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Maxwell Releases New Album, &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Miles Baltrusaitis surprised his family in friends back in the summer last year when he picked up his guitar and after an intense flurry of songwriting, poured out nine deeply personal songs. Spurred on by a broken heart and the upturn of his comfortable suburban life, the genesis of &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217; occurred.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He then by chance ran into drummer Matt Stankiewicz, with whom he had in the past played college football, as well as his keyboardist brother, Dan. The Stankiewicz&#8217;s neo soul band, My Blue Valentine, had split up, and the brothers were at a loose end. Agreeing to launch the band as &#8216;Miles Maxwell&#8217;, after Miles&#8217; first and middle names, they then met Steve Kingwell through a mutual friend, himself a veteran of various suburban cover bands in Chicago. The line up was complete.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The band recorded all the tracks in Miles&#8217; home studio, with mixing performed by Sean O&#8217;Keefe, who&#8217;s produced Fall Out Boy, and Plain White Ts, no less.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The band debuted their music at Silvie&#8217;s Lounge, Chicago, and mere months later, in September this year, they released the blues and country infused album, &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Miles Maxwell take their inspiration from a wide array of sources, including pop folk legends such as Steve Goodman, and Harry Chapin, alt-country Uncle Tupelo, <span class=\"st\">rock, country and folk singer-songwriter<\/span> Steve Earle, and Steely Dan&#8217;s jazz rock. Miles had studied jazz guitar while a student at Williams College, and also consumed the Chicago Blues, as well as painstakingly learning American Primitive fingerstyle guitar. He graduated from the Williams College Singer Songwriter programme, renowned for producing high quality artists.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matt and Dan&#8217;s musical CV is no less stellar: their father was a music teacher in Western Massachusetts, and he encouraged his sons to pursue music in their education. Matt studied percussion at Williams College, while Dan shared their father&#8217;s love of vintage electronic pianos.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nine tracks on &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217; range from heartfelt and sad to fun and witty; their tales from Miles&#8217; life and are deeply personal. Genres range from country-rock to pop, to blues tinged rock ballads, and include titles as enticing as the songs themselves, such as &#8216;Terrible Song&#8217; (which isn&#8217;t terrible at all!), and &#8216;She Says (Whiskey Down At 4am)&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about recording the album, Miles said,<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI love the dynamic we have where I can bring in a crazy idea, riff, lyric or story to Matt and Dan and they instinctively know how to give shape and structure. They\u2019ll improve on it with extended vocal harmonies, or use their deep understanding of tempo and change the rhythm scheme to make it just right. Then we put Steve on top of that and justify\u2019ve got something pretty amazing.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find out more about Miles Maxwell on their <a href=\"https:\/\/milesmaxwell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a>. You can buy &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217; from Miles Maxwell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/milesmaxwell.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp store<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=2947777912\/album=1217456969\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Baltrusaitis surprised his family in friends back in the summer last year when he picked up his guitar and after an intense flurry of songwriting, poured out nine deeply personal songs. Spurred on by a broken heart and the upturn of his comfortable suburban life, the genesis of &#8216;Red Ghost&#8217; occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[725,503,616,1049,17375,144,77,226,17374,203,308,309],"class_list":["post-41796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-americana","tag-chicago","tag-country","tag-folk","tag-miles-maxwell","tag-new-album","tag-new-release","tag-pop","tag-red-ghost","tag-rock","tag-singers","tag-songwriters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-aS8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22972,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/09\/sixty-miles-ahead-are-soon-to-release-insanity\/","url_meta":{"origin":41796,"position":0},"title":"Sixty Miles Ahead Are Soon To Release Insanity","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"07\/09\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sixty Miles Ahead gets set to release their second full-length album, 'Insanity' on October 21, an amazing rock album showcasing the band's heavy style, outstanding guitar riffing, and original rock sound.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/13920902_1273150666031317_3923285849831609746_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/13920902_1273150666031317_3923285849831609746_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/13920902_1273150666031317_3923285849831609746_n.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39064,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/08\/dreamy-country-vibes-from-austin-coleman-with-new-album-long-mile-from-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":41796,"position":1},"title":"Dreamy Country Vibes From Austin Coleman With New Album &#8216;Long Mile From Home&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"03\/08\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Born and raised in a small mountain town in western North Carolina, Austin Coleman's Appalachian roots are evident in his songwriting. 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