Simon MacKenzie

Minneapolis, Minnesota
22 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"If there was ever a time..."

BIOGRAPHY

From Minneapolis, MN. Simon MacKenzie blends together, ever-falling love songs mixed with a Jack Johnson/John Mayer singing voice that makes for a great personal listening experience. MacKenzie, who is studying Music and Production at Cornell College hopes that one day he can continue singing/songwriting for a living and hopes that his music can be something that "...anyone can enjoy."

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Rock, Folk

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / keyboard / mandolin / vocals

INFLUENCES

Amos Lee, Ray LaMontagne, Peter Nelson, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Dispatch

DAY JOB

Student

I AM INTERESTED IN

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

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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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,

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