Green and Root have had a good year. They have sold over 1000 copies of "Down That Road", single handedly just this past summer. "Down That Road" is their debut duo album containing all original songs. Their music is an intimate yet spirited mix of folk, pop and rock, with acoustic guitar based songs, dazzling harmonies and award winning songs. They were honored to be invited spontaneously to perform at the Michigan Women's Music Festival's Closing Ceremony, as well as at the National Gay Marriage Rally in Washington DC this past October. With fans writing things like "these songs are the most inspiring piece of humanity that I have encountered in ages," they must be doing something right!

Their first music video for their song "Marrying You" is on the front page of www.outofthecloset.tv/music and had over 1000 downloads in one week alone. The song is also being used as the theme for a documentary film seen on QTV. Fan Holly wrote "I just saw your lovely video "Marrying You", and I am still a teary mess. I just wanted you to know that you have deeply moved one person."

"Down That Road" has been know to cause goosebumps and tears. The more exuberant "Multiheaded Heart" (1999) is Green's debut solo album. "Multiheaded Heart," produced expertly by prodigious jazz guitarist Mimi Fox, contains world, jazz, folk and rock elements. It paints a colorful symphony of "a goddess on fire" (Reclaiming Quarterly). IndieMusic.com called "Multiheaded Heart" "a masterpiece" and Green a "great singer-songwriter… one that not only makes you hear, but one that makes you desire and feel."

Green and Root have toured the West Coast extensively, performing at Festivals, Colleges, Conferences, Radio Stations and Venues like the Freight and Salvage (Berkeley, CA), The Capitol Steps (Washington DC), the Michigan Women's Music Festival Closing Ceremony, The Elbo Room (San Francisco, CA), Stanford University, University of Hawaii and UC Berkeley. They have shared the stage with artists such as Julie Wolf (Ani DiFranco's band), Mimi Fox, Shelley Doty, Rebecca Riots, Lucy Blu Trombley, Alice DiMicele, Nedra Johnson, Kindness, Gwen Avery, Julia Butterfly Hill, Copperwimmen, Erica Luckett, Melissa Crabtree, Marca Cassity and Rachel Garlin.

TV - ABC, NBC, CBS, QTelevision Network, OutoftheClosetTV.com

PRINT- The Advocate, Curve Magazine, The Oakland Tribune, San Francisco
Chronicle, San Francisco Guardian, East Bay Express, Bay Times,
Indie-music.com

RADIO - KPFA (Berkeley, CA), Amazon Radio (Washington DC), KBIG (Hilo, HI),
KSER (Seattle, WA), and many more

CONTESTS - Best song for "Down That Road" at the
West Coast Songwriter's Association Competition (August '04)
Runner up for "Thinking Like This" from the Recording Academy's
Unplugged Unsigned song contest (2000).

For more about "Down That Road", go to www.greenandroot.com
For more about "Multiheaded Heart", go to www.greenhuse.com

THE ARTISTS

Green has always had music in her life. Singing before she spoke, she grew up dancing or with headphones on her head, awed and amazed by such masterpieces as Hey Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water. Armed with 12 years of piano lessons from age 5, clarinet with the school band at 9 and guitar at 10, she learned pop, rock, classical, then focused on flamenco and folk guitar and singing in college. A studio art major, she focused as well on painting. Cover art for both CD's are original Green paintings, as well as most of the artwork in the CD booklets. She began writing her own songs when she escaped from her hometown of Los Angeles to the mountains of Oregon, where she healed the city haze in a very rustic cabin in the woods in her early 20's. Not able to lug her piano up the mountain path, her guitar became her companion. Her first collection of songs, documenting the multiple sides of love and loss, was released in 1999 as "Multiheaded Heart."

Root first joined forces with Green co-writing First Time Again, a sultry ballad from Multiheaded Heart. Together they worked on the booking and promotion for the first Multiheaded Heart Tour. Starting out as the sound engineer, Root soon took her prior musical experience as a singer and guitarist onto the stage, harmonizing with Green whenever possible. The two soulmates produced "Down That Road" together, and now perform together regularly.

Root refers to herself as a desert baby uprooted to the east coast, where soggy gray winters nearly ruined her before her 1996 escape. Craving big skies and open road, she embarked on a life altering, solo cross-country journey aboard her motorcycle. Equipped with a backpack, camping gear, a guitar and a dream, she set off in search of herself. She found some huge pieces in a reflection of the Rio Grande a few miles from her New Mexico birthplace and collected the rest in bits and pieces along the 8000-mile trail. Inexplicable magnetic forces drew her to Berkeley where she finally met her match - geographically, musically and personally.

THE ALBUM

Down That Road is a storybook of diverse subject matter expressed with delicate mastery. The sometimes spare, sometimes full production cradles themes of creativity, marriage, spirituality and death. The album plays earthy and intimate, sometimes vulnerable with Green's own unique rhythmic guitar style as the foundation. The album is impressively self produced with a variety of mainly acoustic instruments, including cello, piano, harmonium, slide guitar, accordion, pedal steel, flugelhorn, wurlitzer, stand up bass and drums. Each song features Green's unforgettable soprano voice which navigates through the thoughtful and heartbreaking lyrics with Root's lush harmonies filling out the sound.

When conceiving this album, Green and Root wanted to make a CD that spoke to the issues which concerned them, things they talked about late at night or on the road, the things that made them crazy. They wanted to make a difference in the world somehow with their music. They strove to move away from songs about love and heartbreak, but what emerged taught them that love and heartbreak are inseparable from the human journey. The new songs broaden the notion of who we are in relationship with. Now the relationships are not just with a lover, but with oneself, one's mother, the muse, a friend, a neighbor, the natural environment and its spirit.

Little did they know that in the middle of this project, the most traumatic and difficult thing Green had yet faced in her life would occur: her fit and active mother was diagnosed with and eventually taken by cancer. Through this awful tragedy, they recorded two new songs about Green's experience with her Mom's illness and death, "Lift My Head" and "Down That Road."

The line "I told you that I'd be ok, I'll take my first step down that road" popped out and seemed to speak for many of the experiences Green and Root have been through, leading "Down That Road" to become the title track. These include their experience of 9/11, the steady decline of the environment, and their own personal journeys of healing through grief, as well as through love and marriage.

The writing on this album is credited to Green yet Root's feedback and editing are essential to Green's writing process. They describe their songs as "biographical pep talks" because "that's what it feels like when we're singing them." These songs are born from an aching place in the heart making them an accessible expression of the collective universal experience. With its potent blend of fresh and memorable songs, this album forges a path that gives us some insight into the struggles and triumphs of our lives. The going is not always easy or the path clear, but take a first step we must, Down That Road.