Biography
Michael Reno Harrell has built a loyal audience among roots-music listeners through the authentic texture of his country-folk-bluegrass blend and the sharp wit of his storytelling. He entered the world in east Tennessee yet spent his childhood moving back and forth to western North Carolina, the region his family originally called home. The folk revival of the 1960s sparked his curiosity, prompting him to investigate the style more deeply. By the late 1980s he ventured to Nashville to try his hand at songwriting and succeeded in placing material with Doug Stone and Perfect Stranger. Those early gains proved insufficient to hold him, so he grew discouraged, retreated to North Carolina, and set music aside. The pause proved brief; with urging from his wife and close friends he issued the cassette There Are No Angels Here in 1995. Several years afterward came his first full-length CD, Ways to Travel, which drew on a roster of Nashville players that included Jerry Douglas. The album received warm critical notices and attracted fresh listeners within the Americana community.
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