January 27, 2012
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Eilen Jewell (* 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 .
Eilen Jewell with music came early into contact. For inspiration in particular caused the extensive record collection of her parents. She completed her first appearances during her student days at St. Johns College in Santa Fe , New Mexico . Venues were local farmers’ markets and in the vicinity. Then she moved to Los Angeles , where she soon became the size of the local music scene of Venice Beach became. Your time as a street musician, it assessed overall positively: they have helped her to expand her boundaries as a performer. Problems associated with conversion was also the separation from the rural milieu of her childhood and adolescence: I grew up in Idaho. “Since everyone is so friendly. It took a while until I am no longer bothered about what to do or say strangers. ”
In January 2003, Jewell moved over to the East Coast. Bored with the bustle of the West Coast metropolis, she lived in seclusion for several months in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. With appearances at Club Helsinki , a nationally known venue for roots music and rock acts, she was able to expand its reputation as a songwriter, singer and musician on. In late fall 2003, she moved to Boston and then joined the local folk – and Roots music community at. With accompanying musicians changing the following two years she popped up through the clubs further afield.
In December 2005 the first album was released – Boundary Country , recorded in an old barn and recorded with minimal instrumentation: Jason Beek (drums), Daniel Kellar (violin), Jerry Miller (guitar) and Johnny Sciascia (upright bass). As a nationally published release was followed in July 2007, the second plate, Letters from Sinners & Strangers , which is also available in the top ten of roots rock-managed radio station “Radio Weekly Americana.” Stylistically, the 13 songs leaned heavily on its predecessor. Guitar-heavy folk songs in the Western Swing style also offered a mini album called Heartache Boulevard , appeared in April 2008. As a fourth record came in April 2009, Sea of Tears out. With the title song “Sea of Tears”, it contained not only a hitträchtiges title track. Considered good to enthusiastic reviews in part, meant Sea of Tears also another commercial break. Within four weeks, it managed to drive into the top ten of the centrally important publications for Roots Rock Americana charts . Stylistically, the sound of the fourth plate and still sounds stripped down guitar-heavy. Unlike its predecessor’s Sea of Tears recorded without and with only a violin quartet-based occupation.
With the side-project The Sacred Shakers Eilen Jewell 2008 published another CD. The concert volume expanded noticeably out since 2007. About a hundred to 2007 it doubled in 2008 to more than appearances. Thirty of them were operated in Western Europe, some of them in Germany. The fifth CD was released in summer 2010, a tribute album with Of-known and lesser-known songs by Loretta Lynn . The title, Butcher Holler – A Tribute To Loretta Lynn , took that city in terms of the U.S. state of Kentucky , grew up in Lynn and started in their careers. Jewells fifth regular publication of his own compositions (title: Queen of the Minor Key) was released in June 2011 on the market. In addition to 12 new songs, the album contains two instrumentals in the surf sound – the intro track “Radio City” and the outro “Kalimotxo”.
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