New traditionalist Mike Farris set to release album through INO
AMERICA's INO Records have signed Mike Farris, whose musical background stems
from founding the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies to touring with the likes
of Blues Traveler, Sheryl Crow and the Allman Brothers Band. Farris'
INO debut, 'Salvation In Lights', is set for release in the US on 26th
June. Recorded at the same Nashville house-studio where White
Stripes/Raconteurs leader Jack White recorded Loretta Lynn's
award-winning 'Van Lear Rose' album, Farris' second solo effort was
with a band that included Johnny Cash's longtime bassist Dave Roe,
singer Ann McCrary - daughter of the Fairfield Four's founder, the Rev
Sam McCrary and a host of top shelf Nashville musicians. The songs
recorded include traditional spirituals like "Oh Mary Don't You Weep"
and "Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down", Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna
Come" and Thomas A Dorsey's "Precious Lord, Take My Hand".