Mick Strauss

Mick Strauss presents "In The Dark"

There’s many a tale to be found out on the open road, something Mick Strauss knows only too well. An itinerant soul, over his 40-odd years Strauss has always wandered far and wide, his curiosity piqued by people and their cultures. And it was one such trip, that shaped the sound and stories of his debut album "Southern Wave" – six months journeying through the heart of the United States, his adopted homeland, from Duluth down through Missouri to the Louisiana coast.

“It’s a chronicle of the middle of the middle,” says Strauss of the record and the months on the road that inspired it.

This year -in 2024 - Mick Strauss will release his 2nd album "In the Dark" a collection of original folk songs dealing with loss, the signs of changes to come and the lightness of discovering and taming our inner beasts Surrounded live by Baltimore born Violinist and vocalist Jennifer E. Hutt -who played among others with Will Oldham- and the French Cellist and vocalist Maëva Le Berrre - who has played with most of the crème de la crème french rock and folk bands-, Mick Strauss brings his laconic sing-speak drawl to the higher shores of stupendous and brute string arrangements, a little Jonathan Richman, Bill Callahan, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Skip Spence, and Dolly Parton when she sings hits.

On stage Strauss and his songs hit you with a chill. With a mop of unruly black hair, Strauss scans, a madcap sage delivering tales from beyond the horizon. Fixing his audience with a steely blue eyed stare, there’s real conviction in his voice layered on top of his barytone acoustic guitar and the sweet strings and backing vocals and other strange sounds (crystal glasses, harmonium, baby synths) of Jennifer E. Hutt and Maëva Le Berre.