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The next performer was Pauley, a Boston singer-songwriter who, like many Wave Gathering performers, really should be more famous than she is. She’s got an eccentric streak: She pounded on her guitar with her fist, for emphasis, on her song of vengeance, “Marked Man,” and, in “Blunt,” fantasized about using her guitar as a blunt instrument against the various idiots she meets on the road. (But she wouldn’t do it, she added in the song, since the guitar was too expensive). She was utterly winning on more conventional material, too, including a rapturous cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

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Local musician Mieka Pauley is a powerful singer/songwriter who is generating a lot of buzz throughout the Northeast. Check out Pauley’s performance of her song “Secret,” on the FOX25 Morning News.

this is what me, brian & andrew look like performing early in the morning. complete with me asking, live on-air, “you’ll tell me when to … ? oh.”

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When Pauley introduced her last song, all eyes lit up in the studio. If you’ve listened to WERS at all in the past year, there is a good chance you’ve heard “Run”, the title track to her album, Elijah Drop Your Gun. As Pauley moved into the contagious chorus of “Run”, engineers in the control room sang along while working the sound board: “Run, run far beneath the sun….”

June 2008, Volume 15, Issue 110

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Boston-based Mieka Pauley works half-whispered, lyrical magic on Elijah Drop Your Gun. It’s her first release in seven years and well worth the wait.