Biography

Country music fans remember Donna Ulisse from her time on Atlantic Records when she released a critically acclaimed traditional country album “Trouble at the Door” with 3 singles and two videos and appeared on national television shows “Hee Haw, “NBC’s Hot Country Nights”, “Nashville Now” and “Crook and Chase”.

Bluegrass fans have been getting to know Donna over the past few years through her own brand of bluegrass often termed “Bluegrass without Borders” which is mostly self-written. Her 2007 CD “When I Look Back” featured ”I’m Calling Heaven Down” which won the Top Bluegrass Song in the 2009 Just Plain Folks Awards. The title track from her 2009 release “Walk This Mountain Down” was in the Bluegrass Unlimited charts for six months and in June 2009 she was the #1 artist on Sirius XM Satellite radio’s Bluegrass Junction and her song “I Lied” was #1 five different times during the same year. As a songwriter, she is enjoying having her songs on other artists’ projects with recent cuts by Claire Lynch, Darin & Brooke Aldridge and The Bankester Family.

In April of 2010 Ulisse released “Holy Waters”, a collection of gospel bluegrass songs she had written over the past several years with the exception of the Carter Stanley classic “Who Will Sing for Me”. While many call the CD gospel, others have described it as spiritual music. Ulisse calls it her own “soul journey”. Her fourth CD “An Easy Climb” will be released in June 2011 and is once again a collection of original tunes. She tours extensively with her band The Poor Mountain Boys consisting of banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar and upright bass as she brings her music and the stories behind her songs to live audiences around the United States.In July of 2011 she will take her live show abroad for the first time as she and her band travel to Russia as the only American act to perform at the Russian bluegrass festivals in Vologda and Yekaterinburg.

AN EASY CLIMB:

If DJs would like a digital booklet in PDF format of the album artwork and liners with lyrics and full credits emailed to them, please email: kanderson@hadleymusicgroup.com

Artist: Donna Ulisse
Produced & Mixed by: Keith Sewell
Executive Producer: Douglas Johnson
Recorded at: Ocean Way Nashville, Loud Recording, Nashville & The Tool Shed, Mt. Juliet, TN
Tracking Engineer: Jake Burns
Assistant Engineers: Elliot Parry & Allen Parker
A & R: Kathy Sacra-Anderson
Mastered by: Lake Fever Productions, Nashville, TN
Photography: Mark Mosrie/Mark Mosrie Photography
Hair & Makeup: Jamie Fox Corbin
Graphic Design: Sara Ostrovsky
Label: Hadley Music Group
Catalog #: HMG1007
UPC: 643157417255

MUSICIANS:
Acoustic Guitar: Keith Sewell
Upright Bass: Viktor Krauss
Mnadolin & Fiddle: Andy Leftwich
Banjo: Scott Vestal
Dobro: Rob Ickes

DONNA'S THANK YOUS:

I could not have done this project without the support of: Ray Johnson, Douglas Johnson & Kathy Sacra-Anderson, the talents of Keith Sewell, Andy Leftwich,Rob Ickes, Scott Vestal, Viktor Krauss, Jake Burns, John Baldwin, Elliot Parry, Allen Parker, Rick Stanley, Greg Davis, Jon Martin, Tony King, but for the love of Elvis "almost" Bobby King, Craig Havighurst, Daddy, brother Jim, Mark Mosrie, Jamie Corbin, Louise Mosrie, Sara Ostrovsky, Marc Rossi, Kerry Chater, Lynn Gillespie-Chater, my beautiful fans and all of those who inspire the songs I write (you know how you are haha)and my Molly Dawg who sits by my side as I plunk on the guitar and waits for me to finish another song.

A special thank you goes out to the wonderful champions of my music; the folks that faithfully spin my songs and feed those melodies out through signals that bring them to a listener's attention...the DJs, my heroes! You have given my music a good life and for that I am forever grateful! My dear friend Ray Hicks, I pray for your return to the airwaves.

Now let's get on with the listenin'!

Peace,
Donna