Mark Lemhouse
Encyclopedia
Music career
Getting his professional start in Memphis, TennesseeMemphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
playing in Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
, Rockabilly
Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...
, and American Roots bands, he released two solo albums on the Yellow Dog Records
Yellow Dog Records
Yellow Dog Records is an American independent record label based in Memphis, Tennessee that features authentic American music - blues, jazz, soul and Americana...
label. His debut album, Big Lonesome Radio was nominated for two Blues Music Awards for "Best New Artist" and "Acoustic Album of The Year." His song "Edwin's Lament" was used in the Oscar winning film, Hustle and Flow. The follow-up album, The Great American Yard Sale, was decidedly much more eclectic than the first, with songs covering subjects from David Bowie to astronauts. In 2007, Lemhouse produced the album Bluefinger
Bluefinger
Bluefinger is an album by Black Francis . The album was released on 11 September 2007 in the United States and Europe...
for Alternative Rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
legend, Black Francis (AKA Frank Black) of The Pixies. Upon the albums release, the song "Threshold Apprehension" which Lemhouse also provided backing vocals to, was picked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the Best 100 Songs of the year.