{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Heavy Mellow", "page" : "heavy_mellow", "description" : "relaxing acoustic guitar duets", "location" : "TN, USA", "bio" : "\"Your music added just the right touch to our little script.\"\n\n\"Thank you, and Magnatune, very much for allowing us to use your wonderful music. I'm sure you're going to be very pleased when you view the film ...\"\n\n\"Your music plays a prominent role in setting the story's mood and overall tone.\"\n\nAcoustic based Heavy Mellow is a relaxing blend of folk, jazz, grass and classical. Combining finger-style, rhythm and lead, this instrumental string music creates a sound that the name implies, not fitting neatly into any one genre.\n\nThis music has been used in several independent films (see quotes above), commercials, background sound and other applications, as well as for personal listening and live performances. Heavy Mellow has released two albums, with more expected in the future. The first, Acoustic Abstracts is a collection of duets with a simple, refreshing feel. The second album Horizons follows in the same vein, but with more layers to yield a bit fuller sound including bass, percussion, and additional instruments on some tracks.\n\nHeavy Mellow is Barry Sulkin and Paul Hadley Davis. Sulkin (on left) plays finger-style guitars - six and twelve-string steel, classical, and dobro - in a variety of tunings, along with mandolin and harmonica. Davis plays lead guitar, mandolin, bass, and keys. They first met while attending the University of Virginia, then re-connected in Nashville, where they helped form the Americana band Back Creek. Later they started Heavy Mellow as a side project to pursue original instrumental music and fill requests for live performances in smaller settings. They continue to play and record, working out of Nashville and western North Carolina.", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/heavy_mellow_5.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/heavy_mellow/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "heavymellow-horizons", "name" : "Horizons", "artist" : { "name" : "Heavy Mellow", "page" : "heavy_mellow" }, "release_date" : "2007-03-29", "genres" : ["New Age","Instrumental New Age","Inspirational"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["peaceful","calm","dreamy","reflective","hopeful","inspiring"], "uses" : ["study or focus","podcast background","spa or massage","meditation or yoga","cafe or restaurant","emotional storytelling"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["acoustic guitar","12-string guitar","finger-picked dobro","mandolin","hammond organ","harmonica"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "Gorgeously mellow instrumental acoustic guitar duets with gentle touches of mandolin, organ, and harmonica—ideal for relaxing, focusing, or enhancing calm, reflective moments.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Heavy%20Mellow/Horizons/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/heavymellow-horizons/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/heavymellow-horizons", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=heavymellow-horizons" },{ "sku" : "heavymellow-acoustic", "name" : "Acoustic Abstracts", "artist" : { "name" : "Heavy Mellow", "page" : "heavy_mellow" }, "release_date" : "2004-05-09", "genres" : ["New Age","Instrumental New Age"], "vocals" : "instrumental", "moods" : ["peaceful","calm","dreamy","reflective","meditative"], "uses" : ["film score","documentary","nature documentary","meditation or yoga","spa or massage","study or focus"], "energy" : 2, "instrumentation" : ["acoustic guitar","12-string guitar","classical guitar","dobro","mandolin"], "sounds_like" : [], "summary" : "Relaxing, melodic acoustic guitar duets with finger-style and flat picking, ideal for calming background in film, documentaries, meditation, or focus.", "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Heavy%20Mellow/Acoustic%20Abstracts/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/heavymellow-acoustic/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/heavymellow-acoustic", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=heavymellow-acoustic" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "royalty_free" : "Membership is royalty-free licensing: no per-video, per-download or per-view fees, for every project created and released while a member.", "youtube" : "YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, podcasts: members may use the clean songs in monetized videos. Members register their YouTube channel (the set_youtube_channel MCP tool, or their account page) so YouTube's Content ID doesn't claim their videos. The free versions carry a spoken Magnatune voice and are non-commercial (CC BY-NC-SA), so they're not for monetized channels or client work.", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }