St Petersburg, Florida
Singer-Songwriter, Melodist

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"magnificently we will float into the mystic"

BIOGRAPHY

Been writing songs since my first G chord...I know a lot more chords now.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Alternative Country

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Rebekah Pulley, I own my own publishing

Contact

Booking: Steele Management & Booking - brsmgt@tampabay.rr.com
Administrative: rebekah pulley

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / electric guitar / piano

INFLUENCES

Ray Lamontagne, Jenny Lewis, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Beatles, Neko Case, The Band, Led Zeppelin, A good book, A good conversation, A late night, Early mornings, Love and hate, A new chord, A new tuning, A new instrument (I own lots of them), Alone time, Crowded places, History, Math, Science, The religion of no religion and All the strays and waifs of society in general.

DAY JOB

musician

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

2008 -Back To Boogaloo voted as a Best Career Milestone by the editors of Creative Loafing. 2008 - Honorable Mention in American Songwriter magazine for New Mexico. 2007 - Voted Best Singer/Songwriter in Creative Loafing's Readers Poll. 2007 - Rebekah featured on cover of Creative Loafing for top Tampa Bay female musicians. 2007 - 'Songs Of Southern Zen' was the no. 6 CD played on WMNF 88.5 FM for the year. 2006 - 'Songs Of Southern Zen' was the no. 4 CD played on WMNF 88.5 FM for the year. 2005 - Voted as the Best Singer/Songwriter by the editors of the Weekly Planet (now Creative Loafing). 2003 - 'Here In the Real World' chosen as the Best Local Release in The St Petersburg Times. 2002 - Voted as the Best Acoustic Act by the editors of the Weekly Planet (now Creative Loafing).

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,