Heather Maloney

Heather Maloney (born December 4, 1985)^[1] is an American singer-songwriter. In 2009, she self-released her debut album, Cozy Razor's Edge, followed by Time & Pocket Change in 2011. In 2012, Maloney signed with Northampton-based label Signature Sounds Recordings^[2] where she released Heather Maloney (2013), Woodstock (2014), Making Me Break (2015) and Just Enough Sun (2018). The full-length album Soil in the Sky was released in 2019.^[3] Six years later, Maloney released the album Exploding Star, dedicated to her father who died in 2021.^[4][5]

Maloney was raised in Hamburg, New Jersey.^[2] She studied classical operatic singing, improvisational jazz vocals, and music theory.^[1][6][7]

From 2006 to 2009, Maloney lived and worked at a silent meditation retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, taking vows of silence for days at a time.^[2][1] According to Maloney, the silence helped her discover songwriting; she wrote her first songs while living at the retreat center.^[6][1][2]

In December 2013, a New York Times blog wrote about and shared a video of Maloney performing 'Woodstock' with Darlingside; the writer favorably compared her to Mitchell.^[8] In 2014, Maloney released a collaborative EP with Boston quartet Darlingside entitled Woodstock, where she covers Joni Mitchell's song Woodstock. Following the release of Woodstock, Maloney and Darlingside embarked on a nationwide tour.^[9]

Following Woodstock, Maloney joined with producer Bill Reynolds^[6] to create Making Me Break (2015). The album features members of My Morning Jacket and The Wallflowers.^[10]

La crítica Elisabeth Woronzoff, en Pop Matters, describió el álbum de Maloney de 2019, Soil in the Sky, como un trabajo que desarrolla "una multitud de giros musicales cautivadores a la vez que proyecta una emotividad sincera". ^{[ 3 ]}

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