Heidi Gluck

Heidi Lynne Gluck
Origin Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Genres indie rock, indie folk
Instruments Vocals, keyboards, piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, accordion, lap steel, melodica, drums, percussion
Years active 1992 - present
Labels Lotuspool Records, Koch Records, Benchmark Records, Glurp
Associated acts Some Girls, Juliana Hatfield, Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos, Gentleman Caller, The Only Children, American Laundromat, Mariel Recording Company
Website http://www.lotuspool.com/

Heidi Lynn Gluck is a musician, singer, and songwriter. She is a multi-instrumentalist solo artist, band member, and studio musician.

History

In 1999, Heidi dropped out of college at the University of North Dakota to form The Pieces (formerly Pretty Pieces) with Vess Ruhtenberg and LonPaul Ellrich. From Musical Family Tree: “The Pieces were an Indiana-based supergroup featuring local music champ Vess Ruhtenberg, also known for his work in theZero Boys and United States Three (among others), along with Heidi Gluck and Devon Ashley, two highly regarded, respectable musicians in their own right. As the story goes, Ruhtenberg met Gluck on the road as a musician, the two decided to start a band together, and Gluck moved to Indianapolis shortly thereafter. Original drummer LonPaul Ellrich was only with the band for a short time before being replaced by the equally talented and versatile Devon Ashley.

Each member played a creative, unique role on The Pieces’ lone album, 2003's self-titled full-length, which sparkles with clear and competent production, and the individual parts combine to make some truly memorable, genre-transcending pop music moments. The Pieces crafted a sonic blast of lemony-fresh, euphoric power-pop that still feels singular in its intent and execution. Early in the decade that decimated radio pop music, this Indianapolis trio played their pastiche of mega-catchy indie influences as though nineties rock radio would never die (and indeed the genre of nineties indie-pop has seen something of a comeback in 2011).

Soon after Heidi arrived in Indiana, she was in demand, contributing on stage and in the studio with June Panic (Secretly Canadian), Sophia Travis (Affirmation Records), Courtney Kaiser (pre Kaiser-Cartel) and others. In 2001, she joined Some Girls with Juliana Hatfield and Freda Love, and they released two albums together: Feel It (Koch) in 2003, and Crushing Love (Koch) in 2006. In 2004, Heidi met Josh Berwanger and joined his band The Only Children. They released two albums, Change Of Living (Glurp) in 2004, and Keeper Of Youth (Sidecho Records) in 2007. From 2005-2011, Heidi was on partial hiatus from music to focus on mothering. During that time, she taught herself to record her own music, wrote songs, and did some single releases, including a cover of Neil Young’s “Walk On” for the American Laundromat all-female tribute album “Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young. In 2012, she reconnected with her musical family and participated in a number of recordings, including Margot and The Nuclear So and Sos’ “Rot Gut Domestic” (Mariel Recording Company), Joel Henderson’s “Locked Doors & Pretty Fences”. Since then she has contributed to numerous records, including bass, lap steel, keys, vocals on Lily and Madeleine’s self-titled full-length, bass, lap steel, and voca ls on Josh Berwanger Band’s “Strange Stains”, Bass, vocals, keys, lap steel, piano, accordion on Carrie Newcomer’s 2014 “Permeable Life”, bass, vocals, keys, piano, melodica, on Margot And The Nuclear So and Sos 2014 ‘Slingshot to Heaven”, Bass, acoustic and electric guitar, piano, keys, banjo, baritone guitar, pedal steel and songwriter on Lily and Madeleine’s 2014 “Fumes”

Solo career

After a writing and demoing spree, with many songs co-written with Kenny Childers (Gentleman Caller, Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos, Lily & Madeleine), Heidi made her first solo release, “The Only Girl In The Room,” in the summer of 2014, which was composed, performed, and recorded by Heidi Gluck in her home studio. It is scheduled for release on Lotuspool in April 2015, and is the first of a four-release series.

References

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