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Shades Of Blue
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Dry As A Bone
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All Or Nothing
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  • Lauren wins the Surround Music Horizon Award for "Feels Like Family." Click here for details.
  • Alpine, the car stereo company, has licensed the song "End of our Line" from the Dual-Disc of "Feels Like Family" to be included on their Surround Music DVD Audio Sampler to demonstrate the new 5.1 Surround music systems in the high-line cars for 2006.
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    Laurens latest CD, titled "Feels Like Family", is available here now! Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, Feels Like Family is a collection of 11 sometimes rocking, sometimes moody new tunes, with Lauren on all guitars this time around.
    Featured guest musicians include: Tony Joe White, ('nuff said), Viktor Krauss; (Lyle Lovett), Kenny Malone; (Alison Krauss), Dean Parks; (guitar wizard, this time appearing on clarinet) and Catherine Styron Marx (Nashville session keyboard player). Lauren's touring band also appear: Ed Cain, bass, Rick Lonow, drums, and Andy Behrens, percussion.

    What they're saying about Feels Like Family:
    "Ellis' musical talents extend to a husky, honey-toned voice and exceptional songwriting, but her CD/DVD release "Feels Like Family" leaves plenty of room for guitar workouts."
    - Guitar One Magazine, The Blues Issue, May 2005    		 "Lauren Ellis brought up her electric slide and treated the crowd to a beautifully stunning blues number. Her slide work was incredible, and her voice even better!"
    - The Daytona Beach Blues Society News, May 2005
    "Lauren's the real deal; a wonderful songwriter, an excellent evocative singer, and her guitar playing takes a back seat to no one"
    - Vintage Guitar Magazine
         		"A rich passionate blend of blues, rock, (and a smidgen of country), anchored by Lauren's soulful, sometimes jaw-dropping slide"
    - Indie-Music.com
    "Her lead work is the highlight of this eleven song set"
    - Guitar One magazine

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    Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Lauren Ellis has a rich background as a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, especially known for her soulful expressions on slide guitar.

    Moving to Los Angeles, she found road work as guitarist with Rita Coolidge and Nell Carter, backed up legendary R&B duo Don and Dewey, and toured extensively stateside and overseas. In Los Angeles she wrote and recorded her first independent release: the critically acclaimed Push the River.

    Lauren was the winner of the 1999 Los Angeles Music Award in the category of Outstanding Guitarist, and was the only woman asked to audition for the post-Garcia version of the Grateful Dead: "The Other Ones". She has opened shows for Bonnie Raitt, Patti Griffin, Etta James and many others, and recent festival appearances include opening slots with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmy Thackery, John Mayall, Marty Stuart, and The Kentucky Headhunters.

    After relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, she began work on her second record, Feels Like Family. featuring stellar players like Tony Joe White, Viktor Krauss, Dean Parks and Kenny Malone, the CD has been received with rave reviews.

    Listen for the songs on Feels like Family during MTV's reality shows The Real World, Road Rules, and Extreme Challenge. Lauren's searing slide guitar can also be heard on the theme for CMT's pop-meets-country series Crossroads, where she also shares composing credits.

    Lauren splits her time between Nashville and the Northeastern Florida coast, and she and the band are preparing to record her third independent release.

    When she isn't writing, recording, or performing, Lauren's other passion is the restoration and repair of guitars and other stringed instruments.

    On her first self-produced CD Push The River, Lauren showcases her skills on acoustic and electric guitars, Dobro, lap steel, and even electric sitar, but perhaps most impressive are the songs... heartfelt, memorable, and hook-laden, with strong lyrics and a vocal style that is honest, hopeful, and defiantly real. She is accompanied on the album by friends Roy Bittan on keyboards (Bruce Springsteen's "E" Street Band, and producer for Lucinda Williams), session guitar wizard Dean Parks (Lyle Lovett, Steely Dan, co-writer of Push the River's "Real Love"), Neil Stubenhaus on bass (Quincy Jones, Eric Clapton), and Herman Matthews on drums (Tower of Power, Meredith Brooks).
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    QuickTime (17.2 MB) | RealVideo (21.1 MB)    		 On her first self-produced cd Push The River, "Easily one of the best debut efforts you'll ever hear."
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    "Evocative of stellar craftsmen such as John Hiatt, Melissa Etheridge, and Bonnie Raitt"
    - Performing Songwriter Magazine

    "Great f#cking record, Lauren!"
    - Jackson Browne

    "The kind of album that sneaks in almost without notice, and leaves you standing in wide-mouthed awe..."
    -Songwriter Monthly Magazine

    "An irresistible delight onstage..with her trademark smouldering guitar work..." - Entertainment Today MagazineWhen she isn't writing, performing, or recording, Lauren's passion is repairing and restoring guitars and other stringed instruments.

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    Shades of Blue
    © 1999 Slidechik Records

    I know you are thinking that, I escaped without a scratch
    I waltzed away, I turned and ran, you are water off my back
    but not a day goes by, that you don't cross my mind
    in a melancholy scene
    shades of blue, I'm there with you,
    giving up our dream

    I hear you on the radio, I see you in his eyes
    I think of things, I wish we'd said, memories spinning by
    and I phoned you once, to talk it out, I had nowhere left to lean
    shades of blue, I needed you
    though we lost the dream

    shades of blue, when I think of you
    shades of blue

    will you ever see it, like I do, let go of your pride
    we've got nothing left but time, but I'll see no peace tonight

    riding down a country lane, I'm travelling here alone
    I see that house, I know you'd love, it's a house we'd call a home
    but what am I thinking, this crazy heart, just cannot cut it clean
    shades of blue I must be looking through,
    into someone else's dream

    shades of blue, when I think of you
    shades of blue

    All Or Nothing
    © 1999 Slidechik Records

    I think I need you but I don't
    I think you're gonna help me but you wont
    cause you're on your side and I'm on mine
    there's no middle ground on this battle line    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing with you    I'm Pavlov's dog when I hear your name
    press the lever and here comes the pain
    the rules got changed and it had to end
    cause we can't be lovers and we can't be friends    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing with you    Your a silver tongued devil with a heart of steel
    Trying to convince me that you know how to feel
    But you would rather run than to hear the truth
    But its gonna catch up to you, no matter what you do    Six months gone since I've seen your face
    feelings fade only time can erase
    nothing promised but what a cost
    every time that a love is lost

    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing
    It's all or nothing with you

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