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Melissa Reaves The Queen of Action Channels Inner Heart & Soul of Rock-N-Roll By Joe Johnson

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have heard many people say that Melissa Reaves is a force of nature, a hurricane, a tidal wave, “ said Jennifer Garland, longtime partner of Melissa Reaves, “Her music pushes a wave of sound and energy out into the audience leaving them stunned and swirling in her wake. More often than not, audience members are unsure of just how this wave crashed in on them during her performance; they simply feel the emotions stirred up by the experience in which they are consumed.”

Melissa Reaves is a musician based out of Boone, North Carolina who has been encapsulating audiences within her tidal waves of sound for decades. Reaves was born in Lynchburg, Virginia; her and her mother moved to the Carolinas after her father’s untimely death, the region which Reaves now calls home. Reaves has been honing her musical skills since a young age and found her electrifying, deeply emotional singing voice while still a teenager; channeling the rawness of blues legends while bringing the ferocity of a rock-n-roll powerhouse. Reaves is also a master of improvisation, implementing delays and effects into her guitar work during live performances, all while deconstructing the blues, pushing jazz to the outer limits, and burning 30

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Melissa sits between her two twin cousins, David and Derek, as she watches her Grandfather perform a tune on Melissa’s quarter-sized violin. a hole through rock-n-roll. Reaves’ journeys throughout the musical world have brought her in front of audiences across the United States and Europe to perform with renowned musicians such as Robert Plant, Cyndi Lauper, Sarah McLachlan, and Doc Watson, to name a few; along the way she has amassed a word-of-mouth following for her experimental guitar work and propensity toward spontaneity and seamless improvisation during live performance. Reaves has released a total of seven studio albums since 1996, both solo and collaboratively; her latest album, Bitter Pear, will be formally released in 2020. Reaves has been crafting her powerful “tidal wave” musical style since her mother gifted her a quarter-sized violin when she was just five years old in Greenville, South Carolina. Reaves began taking violin lessons soon after with Suzanne Nelson, who became Reaves’ teacher for 11 years as she studied classical violin. “My mom wanted me to play the violin, so she got it expressly for that,” said Reaves, “I got it and squeaked around the house for a long time; that’s how formal music started for me.” Reaves’ mother, Michelle Johnson, remembers the musical spark that her daughter exuded from the moment she first picked up her child-sized violin. However, Johnson did not anticipate the extent to which her daughter’s talents would take her throughout her career or the riveting singing voice 32

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Reaves had within her. “She played violin since she was five; Melissa has had music throughout her Melissa was introduced to formal music at the age of whole life,” said Johnson, “When five when she was gifted a child-sized violin by we started going to hear her sing her mother, Michelle Johnson. we were just amazed. I don’t know where in the world she got it from; she was just inspired! She loves music, I love music, my mom loves music, and we always had music in my parents’ house. Melissa’s got music in her soul, I can tell you that!” During Reaves’ tenth grade year, her and her mother unexpectedly made the move from Greenville, S.C. to Boone, N.C. where she finished up her high school tenure at Watauga High School. Reaves continued to pursue music after high school graduation but not yet as a singer, let alone as a solo performer; she was a member of the band Faux Pas in Boone in which she played the acoustic violin in a rock-n-roll style. Melissa circa 1980/81 in Greenville, S.C. with her beloved violin instructor of 11 years, Suzanne Nelson (right). One day, as Reaves was visiting her musician friends, she was implored really big singer; he kind of approached it to sing; the voice that came out her stunned the room and led Reaves to pursue as a blues kind of vocal, there was nothing the raw vocal talent she had discovered in soft about his singing,” said Reaves, “I don’t herself. “I was hanging out in Boone, do- know exactly what happened, but we were ing what you do, and I had a friend named just hanging out partying; Steve invited me Steve Engler in a band called the Stream of up while they were playing and ‘big’ just felt Consciousness who were really hip band like the way to approach it! I remember it with a really happening crowd. Steve is a was my first time singing big and it was like

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Melissa’s band, “Strange Brew” in Va. Beach, VA 1992/3. The drummer Chris Hite and Melissa would go on the road with The Platters a few years later. ‘whoa!’ You know, I have big voice, a more powerful vocal. I really have to hand it to Steve Engler, that was the first time I had sang the blues in front of a large group of people. A lot of times with bands it’s like ‘well, we’re going to play the blues, and it’s up to you to sink or swim,’ and I decided I better swim!” In 1994, Reaves moved to Virginia Beach; during this time, Reaves made her first venture into performing as a solo artist with the creation of her first selftitled, five-song EP with the help of Stacy Hayden, a renowned producer and former guitar player for David Bowie. Not long after, Reaves and Hayden secured the resources to create Reaves’ first studio album, Fall from Grace. Reaves continuously traveled between Virginia Beach and Boone throughout 1994 and 1996 to record portions of the album and routinely performed at venues around both cities along the way; her first solo tour began in May of 1995 where she reverberated throughout audiences across the United States. “That first EP with Stacy, prior to Fall from Grace, was probably just for Stacy to work with me to see if this is even workable; he had also asked me to record two tracks written by Canadian songwriter Lonnie Glass and guitarist George Marinelli,” said Reaves, “We got the funds to do the first album, Fall from Grace, and I had history with Stacy from my EP, so we went back and worked with him; that was the reason for going back and forth between Boone and Virginia Beach. I had found a producer that I had a working rapport with, which is paramount for any producer or engineer.” Fall from Grace was officially released in 1996, with a couple of album release parties held in Boone and Virginia Beach to commemorate Reaves’ first album. In early June of 1996, Reaves moved to Boston. It was around this time when Reaves met her longtime friend and “musical soulmate”, Masa Takahashi, a relationship that has helped shape Reaves as a performer and human being. “I was at this blues jam, Johnny D’s, in Somerville Massachusetts; this particular jam you are placed with people you don’t know. You never know who you might get, and I got Masa,” said Reaves, “We played the set together and exchanged information; he just kept calling me. Finally, I decided

Melissa’s band “The Union” in Boone during 1988/89. The band would honed their sound at numerous shows at The Klondike. Pictured are Jaime Decker, Billy Walker, (Melissa) and Andy Mullis. The picture was taken in front of Melissa’s house on Winklers Creek Road.

The band “The Willys” seen here at one of their shows at the famous CBGB’s in New York City NYC in 1999. Melissa’s dear friend and impeccable musician Masa Takahashi is to her right. They always played the NYC shows and then drove back home to Boston the same night.

“The Willys” - This picture was from a photo shoot with famed sports photographer David Seelig. It was shot on the boardwalk of the West Side Highway in Manhattan.about an hour before a show at The Bitter End. Melissa would go on to play at The Bitter End for 20+ years. L to R: Uske Yamamoto, Dave Cardin, Masa Takahashi and Melissa. December 2019

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“Melissa Reaves and The As Is Ensemble” playing at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City. This picture was taken by N.C. native Diego Britt at Melissa’s second performance at Rockwood Music Hall with Michael Bellar and the As Is Ensemble. Three years later Michael would produce Melissa’s 7th studio album, “Bitter Pear.” L to R: Michael Bellar, Melissa Reaves, Rob Jost, Brad Wentworth. backstage to inquire just “who the to go meet with him and he had hell is that?” when her ears were learned my entire album, note for met with Reaves’ tidal wave of note, and started giving me suggessound. Following her performance tions; I wasn’t offended, I was imat NYC Pride, Reaves was intropressed! We started a band called duced to Ken Gorka of the Bitter The Willys with our friend Dave End in New York. Gorka took an Carden and rehearsed at Berkeimmediate liking to Reaves and ley School of Music where Masa introduced her to Susan White, a studied Jazz Composition. Masa notable music figure and owner and I have been friends ever since; of Fretless Music, who was in the we are musical soulmates. I can process of putting together an allask him anything and I know he female compilation album entitled will tell me the truth. It may not Go On Girl. Reaves contributed always be what I want to hear, but to the Go On Girl compilation alI can seek counsel with him when bum; at the CD release party, she it comes to music and life.” met Sarah Chanderia of The Hush, Meanwhile, Reaves’ career as a who became Reaves’ first publisher solo performer began to gain more and helped secure funding for her and more traction as she wowed next album, Sentimental Anthem, audiences with her ferocious musiwhich was released in 1997. cal style. Reaves was chosen to per1998 was marked by Reaves form on the Washington D.C. Mall & The Willys performing during at the 1996 D.C. Pride Celebraa portion of the South Carolina tion, where she rocked the colossal Pride event held at the House of crowd of 80,000 people during her Performance at The Bisbee Grand Saloon in Bisbee AZ in 2010. Blues in Myrtle Beach, where they short two-song set. “I had no idea This shot was taken during The Fake Jan Festival that shared the stage with legendary there would be that many people celebrated of all things Jan Brady from the Brady Bunch. musicians such as KC & The Sunin the crowd; 80,000 is a lot of shine Band, Alicia Bridges, Donna people,” said Reaves, “Everywhere at New York City Pride in Bryant Park as the you looked there were people. I walked out opener for renowned pop singer Cyndi Lau- Summer, Sister Sledge, and Toni Houston. and I was nervous; I did it though!” per. During Reaves’ sound check prior to “That’s how I got to play with a bunch of In 1997, Reaves was invited to perform the performance, Lauper clamored out from disco legends! They were people, particu34

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“Melissa Reaves and The As Is Ensemble” on the road with Michael Bellar and “The As Is Ensemble” at Martins Downtown in Roanoke ,VA. L to R: Rob Jost, Michael Bellar, Melissa Reaves, Brad Wentworth larly women, who had made it in music and that was tough in those days any way you slice it,” said Reaves. 1999 was another year full of touring for Reaves as she performed 250 days a year. In early summer, Reaves became aware of a local talent audition to secure a spot performing at the 1999 Lilith Fair, a traveling music festival started and headlined by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. Reaves rushed down to the audition to snag her place on the bill and sure enough, she won the contest and received the opportunity to perform on the second

Post show with Mia Dyson at The Starlite Lounge in Bisbee, AZ taken at a post show dance party. The show was with celebrated Australian roots musician, Mia Dyson.

stage at the ’99 Lilith Fair. During the finale of the show, McLachlan invited Reaves on the main stage to share a performance with herself and American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow. “The great thing about Sarah McLachlan is her attitude; she was ultrainclusive and made sure that I was at the press conference with Sheryl Crow seated right beside me,” said Reaves, “At the end of the night she invited me up on the main stage to sing. She had several people on stage, but there were only three lead microphones and she made it a point to hand me one. It was like taking the baton at an

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Melissa was gifted her set of digital delay pedals that she uses during improvisational performances. “The ‘normal’ use is to enhance your acoustic sound to make it fuller but I’m always experimenting with how I can use it,” said Melissa, “My pedal remembers roughly seven seconds of information and over the course of about a minute and a half it diminishes. When I do my delay pedal work, I have to constantly recreate lines. It’s the most present and organic approach to looping in my opinion; it’s like an entire orchestra is playing during my performances.”

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CO; Reaves met longtime friend Michigan Mike and occasional collaborator Dave Watts, founder of the Motet, during her experiences at the festival. Throughout Reaves’ periods of touring in the late 1990s, her publisher, Sarah Chanderia, was shopping her albums to various markets for placements in television and film. After securing spots in programs featured on the Oxygen Network, Reaves began going to music industry conferences with Chanderia as she attempted to secure placements for her roster of artists. Suddenly, Reaves found herself being invited to perform at the 2000 MIDEM conference in Cannes, France. “All of a sudden Sarah called and said, ‘they’ve picked you to perform at MIDEM,’ which is a super big deal. It’s like the ‘who’s who’ in the international music scene; the heavyweight movers and shakers,” said Reaves, “We were living in a remote area of Ashe County in the Appalachian Mountains at the time; to go from the High Country to a yacht in the French Riviera off the southern coast of France is a lot!” It was at the 2000 MIDEM conference where Reaves met John Hopkins, also known as “Hoppy”, the manager of British rock icons AC/DC, as well as Evert Wilbrink, the tour manager for Joan Jett, Bob Marley, and associate of Jimi Hendrix. Hopkins decided he needed to fly Reaves out to England in order to make connections and perform. Reaves’ adventures in

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England ultimately resulted in a performance opening up for rock-n-roll legend Robert Plant, lead singer of Led Zeppelin, at the Nottingham Ballroom. Plant was enamored with Reaves’ vocal abilities and explorative guitar approach and the two shared a long conversation in the green room backstage. “It was time for me to go on and I’m out there performing,” said Reaves, “Chris, my guitar tech, said he felt somebody over his shoulder and he looked over and was shocked to see it was Robert Plant! That’s when Plant asked him ‘who the f--- is that?’ After the show, it was just me and Robert Plant in the green room. If there was ever a moment I was able to pan out, it was that moment. I told him ‘I can’t even pretend not to be starstruck, I am such a big fan.’ There’s no successful effort in trying to be cool with Robert Plant around! We just hung out and talked. I made a conscious decision to not be reserved despite the fact I was sitting there with Robert Plant. I knew that was a special experience for me and so often the industry can suck those experiences away from you. Plant is a smart guy; I got a great vibe from him and no ridiculous ego.” In the early 2000s Reaves spent a great deal of time in Nashville, Tennessee meeting, playing, and working with some of the music city’s greats. It started when Reaves met Jim Isbell, former drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis, Feron Young, and many others in Nashville. Isbell was in the High Coun-

try visiting his mother and heard Reaves perform on a 4th of July parade float, recognizing Reaves’ distinct voice from an earlier performance he witnessed in Boone. Isbell was wowed by her talents and invited Reaves to Nashville to introduce her to formidable music icons in the city such as producer Cowboy Jack Clement, harmonica legend Charlie McCoy, songwriter legends Larry Henley and Tony Colton and musician Steve Cropper. “I saw her in the 4th of July parade with her band and said, ‘Good God, that’s her!’ I told her that I am in the music business in Nashville and wanted to introduce her to musicians in the Music City,” said Isbell, “She came to Nashville and we went to a club on music row in downtown; Melissa went on late with a band she had never met, told the band the key, and put on the best show that anyone there had ever seen! She kept throwing key changes at the band and performed a show that will live in infamy. It was like nothing that me or Nashville had ever seen.” Reaves continues to perform at venues across the country; the past few years, Reaves has also been known to team up with Jeff Sipe’s Electric Buddha during various performances. Jeff Sipe’s Electric Bud-

dha is a band created by world renowned rock and jazz fusion drummer Jeff Sipe, a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit with Bruce Hampton and former member of Leftover Salmon and the Zambiland Orchestra, an experimental big band with members of Phish and Widespread Panic. “I think that there are good musicians and there are great musicians, and then there’s Melissa Reaves above all of that,” said Sipe, “She is one of my favorite musicians on the planet. What makes it even better is that she is as nice Silvera video shoot in Bisbee, AZ during 2010/2011. “Silvera a person as she is talented; is a persona I created that I sometimes perform as. She is she talks so sweet and she from another planet,” says Melissa. The picture was taken gets up to sing and the devil during a video shoot with Wylde Vibe Belly Dance Troup. comes right out of her! Every gig we have done so far, her partner Jennifer Garland have been dithere is a moment in the night when she opens up and sings full-out viding their time between Boone and Bisbee, and everyone’s eyes pop out of their heads Arizona. Garland was entranced by the idea of Bisbee and eventually exclaimed that she and they look at each other in disbelief.” Beginning in winter 2011, Reaves and had to see the town for herself. Reaves feels

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the town has accepted them wholeheart- musical theme each year and have cre- the Lord come out to AC/DC!” The 18th edly and feels welcome within the unique ated an opportunity to incorporate all my annual Melissa Reaves Holiday Show will music scene located in the Bisbee area. “We great musician friends. It’s always a little be held on December 14 at The Beacon in Boone, N.C. were originally going to stay in Bisbee More recently, Reaves has been for one week, but we ended up stayworking on the release of her latest ing for two because of the incredible album, Bitter Pear. The album is a colcreative energy that is there,” said laborative effort with Michael Bellar, Reaves, “It’s a tiny little town filled a renowned musician and producer with funky, great, historically relevant from New York City. The pair chose artists; another layer is pulled off of to create an album that would accentuBisbee every time we go there. I quickate Reaves’ talents as a musician who ly felt that they were available for the is known to deconstruct tunes during extent to which I was willing to push each of her performances. Covers on things, whether it be experimental or the album include songs such as “Your performance-wise. Whether it’s an apTime Is Gonna Come” by Led Zeppeproach to a performance or an idea for lin and “Shook Me All Night” by AC/ a show, the people in Bisbee are ready DC. Bitter Pear was mixed by Grammy to seriously digest it. That atmosphere award winning mixer, producer, and pushes me to grow and think deeper engineer, Dave O’ Donnell who has about my art.” worked with the likes of Eric ClapReaves is noted not only for her ton, James Taylor, Keith Richards, and musical accomplishments around the John Mayer. The album also features globe, but also for her musical enMelissa’s latest album, Bitter Pear, is a collaborative effort Scott Sharrard, longtime lead guitardeavors down home in Boone as well. with renowned producer Michael Bellar. Bitter Pear ist and bandleader for the late Gregg Reaves hosts an annual holiday show will be officially released in 2020. Allman. Reaves’ musical talent shines in the High Country to celebrate the holiday season and to have a fun, “fancy” goofy; one year it was classic country, in on the album as she once again disassembles night; this year will mark the 18th an- 2000 we had the Apocalypso in celebra- and puts together songs to create and dominual Melissa Reaves Holiday Show. Phil- tion of the ‘apocalypse’ that was supposed nate her own personal renditions. “This was anthropic efforts are included as part of to happen, it has gone all over the place. very much a collaboration project with Mithe holiday show with guests encouraged For several years, I’ve made costumes and chael. Working closely with someone and to make donations to local organizations. props for the show that have gotten big- letting some control go as well as being inThe very first holiday show was hosted by ger and bigger over the years! Last year the credibly honest contributed heavily to Bitter Coffeys in downtown Boone; through the Angel of the Lord made an appearance. Pear,” said Reaves, “When it comes to cover years it moved to Louisiana Purchase, and She was constructed on a six-foot ladder tunes, I try to get to the essence of what is then finally to the Local on Howard Street with a nine-foot flowing dress that glowed going on; the truth or the realness. At the in the spot where it all began. “I wanted it as she hovered with large silver wings that end of the day, real and honest emotions are to be a special night, that’s how it started. extended six feet each way. It was really a the only thing that can truly be transmitted It’s grown and evolved into a tradition; spectacle, during the entrance I came out through music. I think the only way that this is the 18th year of the holiday show,” as the band played Thunderstruck by AC/ people in the audience can have a real and said Reaves, “I’ve tried to have a different DC; it was awesome to have the Angel of soulful experience is if I’m real.” t

Melissa Reaves (left) and her longtime partner, Jennifer Garland (right), have been dividing their time between the High Country and Bisbee, Arizona since 2011; enjoying the atmospheres and music scenes of both regions throughout the year. 38

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