Louise Mosrie
“Eclectic Dreaminess….grounded and gutsy”
– Southeast Performer Magazine
Singer/songwriter Louise Mosrie is a mass of contradictions. She grew up in the South with British parents. She had a successful media business career while learning to find her artistic voice in music. Her songwriting can pinpoint the details of life and its larger truths all at once.
Louise grew up in McEwen, Tennessee and moved to Knoxville to attend college. But it wasn’t until after school, on her 22nd birthday, that she realized that music was too important to set aside for a more “sensible” career. Borrowing her brother’s Sears Harmony guitar, she taught herself a few chords and wrote her first song. She joined a couple of bands and sang lots of cover songs by artists she admired like The Sundays, Everything But the Girl, Nanci Griffith and Ricki Lee Jones, but only writing her own songs gave her creative satisfaction.
In 1999, she left her “sensible” career as a sales manager for the local Knoxville Fox TV affiliate to make music full time and she soon released “Crave” as a full-length debut album. The album received local and regional critical praise. Metropulse Magazine in Knoxville said, “Surprisingly polished and fully formed, Crave documents her progress as a unique artist of lush acoustic pop with dashes of coffeehouse folk, country and rock” and Southeast Performer Magazine in Atlanta said, “Tough without compromise or pretense, yet feminine enough to allow real emotions to guide the mood.”
Louise then started playing solo around the Southeast to coffeehouses, festivals, and bookstores…anywhere she could garner a listener, a fan, or another contemplative soul to sing to. Since then she’s played at Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, the Bluebird Café, Douglas Corner and Exit/In in Nashville, Blue Cats and Barley’s in Knoxville, the Coffee Underground in Greenville, SC and many other venues. She’s had the pleasure to open for such diverse acts as Jonatha Brooke, Allison Moorer, Marcia Ball, Michelle Malone, Greg Trooper, and Antigone Rising.
In 2001, Louise released a second full-length album, “Separated Like Stars”, an even more fully realized vision of her music. Acoustic folk pop with occasional jazz and then, surprisingly, a country pop song in the mix, she defies genre definitions. “I like to let the song dictate the style. I don’t feel bound to just one sound in my writing”, she says. Southeast Performer Magazine said, “…her glowing voice becomes entangled with the acoustic guitar…a wonderful recording.” Metro Beat of Greenville, SC said, “Louise brings a refreshing dose of acoustic pop to the singer-songwriter realm…her new album gives you the kind of emotional lift that an old Carole King or Maria Muldaur release would have 30 years ago.”
In May 2004, Louise and her husband Mark moved to Nashville. They see it as embarking on a new adventure. “There are so many great resources in Nashville and I’m looking forward to getting involved in the music community”, Louise remarked. Currently, Louise plays in an acoustic style with a wonderful guitar player and back-up singer from Knoxville, Anna Denison.