Alex Bevan Releases  Fly Away Oct 22 
Celebrates Music from the Grand River 
@ Beachland Tavern 10/22
With a Preview Show Sept. 3 @ the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, New Music is Here
	
	Cleveland, Ohio: He’s been celebrated in the pages of Newsweek, played shows with Odetta, Steve Goodman and John Hartford, but in his native Northern Ohio troubadour songwriter Alex Bevan is best known for his acoustic Springboard and Grand River Lullabye albums, which forged a seamless marriage of the local topography, the human heart and the wonder of being young and alive, not to mention a certain revel-yell of civic pride known as “Skinny.” Almost 40 years to the date of his No Truth To Sell, Bevan will release Fly Away, a 9 song cycle recorded once again at Painsville’s Suma Recording.

	“The more I thought about the music I’ve made, the songs that have been my friends and companions along the way, the more I realized it’s the thing that brings you home that is often the most authentic to who you are,” Bevan says of his decision to return to the writing that had defined his best loved works. “Home for me is somewhere on the banks of the Grand River, where I really learned what it meant to love, to lose, to seek and to find out what you can endure.

	“All these years later, those things really still are what inspires me the most to write. When you stop having to do something else, something new and settle into what stirs your soul… I think you begin to understand what makes one’s music their own.”

	Recorded over two days, just Bevan and his acoustic guitars, Fly Away is drawn from the people who populate his life – and the moments that have both given him joy and tested his inner reserves over the past several years. Whether it’s the buoyancy of “Mississippi Medicine” and “Road To Montreal,”  the tender encouragement of “The One Who’s Gone” or the blues caution of knowing one’s reality that is “Cages,” this is smart folk music that returns one to their wonder years without surrendering any of the knowing that comes with growing up.

	“A lot has happened,” Bevan admits, “since I was a kid running around Coventry, and the older I get, the more I appreciate the smallest things, the tiny moments. This is an album that offers all those in a way that, I hope, encourages people making their way, dealing with problems and complications – because that’s part of it. But I believe it’s the little things, love and recognizing how beautiful life is that lift us up. If I can help do that, then these songs have served several masters.”

	Having previewed several songs from Fly Away as part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 15th Anniversary Celebration Sept. 3, Bevan moves to a hearth that’s always felt like home for his release party/concert: the Beachland Ballroom’s Tavern. Not only will the show serve as a framework for Bevan’s illustrative acoustic playing and the songs of his first CD in 3 years, but it will feature old friends, surprise guests and all the songs Ohio has loved and lived by heart.

	Copies of Fly Away will be available at the show. They can also be purchased at Barnes & Noble, Record Den, Borders, K&K Meats and www.alexbevan.com.                  More outlets coming soon!

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