Eilen Jewell

Eilen Jewell ( born April 6, 1979 in Boise, Idaho) is an American songwriter, country and roots rock musician. Since the fall of 2003, she lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Biography

With music Eilen Jewell came early in contact. For inspiration in particular caused the extensive record collection of her parents. Your first appearances, she completed during her studies at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Venues were farmers' markets and restaurants in the surrounding area. Then she moved to Los Angeles, where she soon became the local size of the music scene of Venice Beach. Your time as a street musician, she reviewed a total positive: you have helped her extend their boundaries as a performer. Associated with conversion problems was the detachment from rural milieu of her childhood and youth: I grew up in Idaho. "There are all so friendly. It took a while until I no longer thought bothered me what strangers say or do. "

In January 2003, Jewell moved over to the east coast. Bored with the hustle and bustle in the west coast city, she lived a few months back into the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. With appearances at Club Helsinki, a nationally known venue for roots music and rock acts, she succeeded her reputation as a songwriter, singer and musician further developed. In the late fall of 2003, she moved to Boston and joined there the local folk & roots music community to. With changing accompanying musicians they hoofed it the following two years by the clubs in the wider area.

Jason Beek (drums ), Daniel Kellar (violin), Jerry Miller ( guitar) and Johnny Sciascia ( bass): Boundary Country, recorded in an old barn and recorded with minimal occupation - In December 2005, the first album was released. As a nationally published release followed in July 2007, the second plate, Letters from Sinners & Strangers, which made ​​it into the Top Ten of the Roots Rock station " Americana Weekly Radio". Stylistically, the 13 songs leaned heavily on the predecessor. Guitar -heavy folk songs in Western swing style also offered a mini album entitled Heartache Boulevard, released in April 2008. A fourth plate came in April 2009, Sea of Tears out. With the title song "Sea of ​​Tears", it contained not only a hitträchtiges title track. Been favorably enthusiastic to part reviews, Sea of Tears also meant commercially another breakthrough. Within four weeks, it abolished the plate in the top ten for Roots Rock Publications centrally important Americana charts. Stylistically sounds like the sound of the fourth plate still stripped down and guitar driven. Unlike its predecessor, Sea of ​​Tears is recorded without the violin and with a quartet - based occupation.

Published By The Sacred Shakers side project Eilen Jewell 2008, another CD. Also the concert volume expanded significantly since 2007 from. Compared to 2007 it doubled in 2008 to more than a hundred performances. Thirty of them were operated in Western Europe, some of them in Germany. A fifth CD was released a tribute album with Of- known and lesser-known songs by Loretta Lynn in the summer of 2010. The title, Butcher Holler - A Tribute To Loretta Lynn, made ​​reference to that city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, grew up in Lynn and in the began their careers. Jewells fifth regular publication with original compositions ( Title: Queen of the Minor Key ) came in June 2011 on the market. In addition to 12 new songs, the album contained two instrumentals in the surf sound - the intro title "Radio City" and the outro " Kalimotxo ".

Style and reviews

Although she rejects the term " retro music," Eilen Jewell sees her musical roots uniquely in the sixties - the roots rock of the time, but also the electric blues of Chicago School or British bands such as Them. As another example renames the country singer Loretta Lynn. Your preference for scaled-down, guitar-driven sound they also explained her preference for the music of the Sixties. Eilen Jewell: "Before I discovered Woody Guthrie and folk music, I heard Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and - later - the Animals and the Kinks. I love the stuff, and I love to play it. "

The roots rock -oriented style also found in newspaper reviews recognition and praise. The LA Daily News wrote: "Sometimes it sounds so dark and damaged as Lucinda Williams, then defiantly like Peggy Lee or in authentic Americana tradition, such as Gillian Welch. " The Boston Globe: " Jewells Music has the rest of the former ( Gillian ) Welch or Norah Jones, with their neotraditionellen melodies, her muffled vocals and alternating grooves of their pieces but direct " the Music Blog songs:. Illinois led Sea of Tears on as a model. Quote: "This record should be a wake-up call for Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and so on, that they return to their roots. "

Also in Germany learned the musician are greatly appreciated. The Hamburg evening paper compared the singer during a concert announcement in October 2009, coinciding with Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday and Patti Smith. Spiegel Online wrote: "Whenever Bob Dylan is asked about his supposed ' Never Ending Tour', he points out that there are legions of musicians in the U.S. who are always on tour. Just as the young Eilen Jewell and her band, the seemingly non-stop in bars and taverns perform their delightfully old -sounding songs. "

Discography

CDs

• Boundary County ( 2005)
• Letters From Sinners & Strangers (Signature Sounds, 2007)
• Heartache Boulevard ( mini-album; Signature Sounds, 2008)
• Sea of Tears (Signature Sounds, 2009)
• Butcher Holler - A Tribute To Loretta Lynn (Signature Sounds, 2010)
• Queen of the Minor Key (Signature Sounds, 2011)

Other publications

• The Sacred Shakers ( Side Project) (2008)
• Song on Compilation Natural Energy Lab, Vol 1 ( Natural Energy Lab, 2009)
• Singing in a song on Doug Spartz & Friends: The One Who's Leavin ' ( Great North Music, 2007)