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{{Infobox musical artist
{{Infobox musical artist
| image = File:Joan Shelley.jpg
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| caption = Joan Shelley performing with Nathan Salsburg in Whelan's, Dublin in 2017
| name = Joan Shelley
| name = Joan Shelley
| background = solo_singer
| image = Joan Shelley.jpg
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| caption = Joan Shelley performing with Nathan Salsburg in Whelan's, Dublin in 2017
| birth_name =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}}
| birth_place = [[Kentucky]], United States
| birth_place = [[Kentucky]], United States
| origin = [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], [[Kentucky]], United States
| origin = [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], [[Kentucky]], United States
| genre = [[Folk music|Folk]]
| genre = [[Indie folk]], [[Contemporary folk music|contemporary folk]], [[country music|country]]
| occupation = Singer-songwirter
| occupation = Singer-songwriter
| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}}
| instrument = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}}
| years_active = 2010-present
| years_active = 2010–present
| associated_acts = Nathan Salsburg, Maiden Radio, [[Will Oldham]], [[Bonnie Prince Billy]], [[Jeff Tweedy]], [[Tyler Ramsey]], Richard Thompson
| associated_acts = Nathan Salsburg, Maiden Radio, [[Will Oldham]], [[Bonnie Prince Billy]], [[Jeff Tweedy]], [[Tyler Ramsey]]
}}
}}


'''Joan Shelley''' (born in 1985) is an American [[folk music|folk]] musician from [[Louisville, Kentucky]].
'''Joan Shelley''' (born in 1985) is an American [[indie folk]] musician from [[Louisville, Kentucky]], United States.


==Career==
==Career==
Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer who lives near Louisville, Ky., not far from where she grew up. ''Like the River Loves the Sea'' is her fifth album. She draws inspiration from traditional and traditionally-minded performers from her native Kentucky, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but she’s not a folksinger. Her disposition aligns more closely with that of, say, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or her fellow Kentuckian Tom T. Hall, who once explained—simply, succinctly, in a song—“I Witness Life.”


Shelley has released nine solo studio recordings. Her second album, ''Ginko'', and third album, ''Farthest Field'' (with [[Daniel Martin Moore]]), were released in 2012 on Ol Kentuck.<ref name="woub">{{cite web|last1=Fogel|first1=Tiffanie|title=2016 Gladden House Sessions: Joan Shelley|url=https://woub.org/2016/07/05/2016-gladden-house-sessions-joan-shelley/|publisher=[[WOUB-FM]]|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref> In 2014, Shelley released her fourth album, ''Electric Ursa'', on No Quarter Records.<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web|last1=Currin|first1=Grayson|title=Joan Shelley: Electric Ursa|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19828-joan-shelley-electric-ursa/|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="rollingstone">{{cite web|title=15 Great Albums You Didn't Hear in 2014|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/15-great-albums-you-didnt-hear-in-2014-20141217/joan-shelley-electric-ursa-20141216|work=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="stereogum">{{cite web|last1=Bowe|first1=Miles|title=Stream Joan Shelley Electric Ursa|url=http://www.stereogum.com/1707739/stream-joan-shelley-electric-ursa-2/music/album-stream/|website=[[Stereogum]]|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref> In 2015 she released her fifth album, ''Over and Even'', also on No Quarter.<ref name="pitchfork1">{{cite web|last1=Currin|first1=Grayson|title=Joan Shelley: Over and Even|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20930-over-and-even/|website=Pitchfork|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="stereogum1">{{cite web|last1=Breihan|first1=Tom|title=Album Of The Week: Joan Shelley Over And Even|url=http://www.stereogum.com/1827798/album-of-the-week-joan-shelley-over-and-even/franchises/album-of-the-week/|website=Stereogum|access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref> In 2017, Shelley released her eponymous sixth album.<ref name="rollingstonemagazine">{{cite web|last1=Browne|first1=David|title=Review: Joan Shelley's Self-Titled Fourth LP Is Exquisitely Hushed Folk|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-joan-shelleys-joan-shelley-w480796|work=Rolling Stone|access-date=14 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="theindependent">{{cite web|last1=Lees|first1=Alasdair|title=Joan Shelley on her new album, Leonard Cohen and working with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/joan-shelley-leonard-cohen-wilco-jeff-tweedy-kentucky-folk-a7763951.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/joan-shelley-leonard-cohen-wilco-jeff-tweedy-kentucky-folk-a7763951.html |archive-date=2022-06-09 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=14 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=OfficialSite_recordings/> Her seventh album, ''[[Like the River Loves the Sea]]'', was released in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-joan-shelley-like-the-river-loves-the-sea-879360/|title=Joan Shelley’s ‘Like the River Loves the Sea’ is an Intimate Study in Beauty and Sorrow|last=Freeman|first=Jon|date=2019-09-03|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=2019-09-05}}</ref>
She’s not so much a confessional songwriter, although ''Like the River…'' gets closest to such subjectively emotional impressions as perhaps any album to date, and she sings less of her life and more of her place: of landscapes and watercourses; of flora and fauna; of seasons changing and years departing and the ineluctable attempt of humans to make some small sense of all—or, at best, some—of it. Her perspective and performances both have been described, apparently positively, as “pure,” but there’s no trace of the Pollyanna and there’s little of the pastoral, either: her work instead wrestles with the possibility of reconciling, if only for a moment, the perceived “natural” world with its reflection—sometimes, relatively speaking, clear; other times hopelessly distorted—in the human heart, mind, and footprint.


No Quarter released Shelley's eighth album, ''The Spur'', on 24 June 2022. Upon its release, the album received critical acclaim.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Spur by Joan Shelley |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/the-spur/joan-shelley |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |language=en |access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Joan Shelley - The Spur |url=https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/490217-joan-shelley-the-spur.php |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Album of The Year |language=en-US}}</ref>
Since the 2015 release of her album ''Over and Even'', Shelley has crossed the country and toured Europe several times as a headlining artist, typically with guitarist Nathan Salsburg, and sharing shows with the likes of Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Doug Paisley, Daniel Martin Moore, The Other Years, and Michael Hurley. She has opened for Wilco, Chris Smither, Andrew Bird and Richard Thompson. Jeff Tweedy produced her previous record at The Loft in Chicago. She’ll be familiar to readers of guitar-centric magazines for having appeared, in the same season, on the covers of Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar.


==Discography==
==Personal life==
Shelley attended the [[University of Georgia]]. She decided to go to the university due to [[Athens, Georgia|Athens]]'s strong music culture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/29/folk-singer-joan-shelley-the-spur-interview-max-porter|last=Aroesti|first=Rachel|title=Folk singer Joan Shelley: ‘Keep asking questions. Keep feeling. Don’t go numb’|date=2022-06-29}}</ref>
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'''Studio albums'''<ref name="OfficialSite_recordings">{{cite web|url=cite web|title=Joan Shelly: Listen|date=2018|publisher=Joan Shelley|accessdate=2019-07-12}}</ref>


Shelley frequently works with her husband, guitarist and musicologist Nathan Salsburg.<ref name="WTF">{{cite web|last1=Maron|first1=Marc|title=Interview on WTF podcast, episode 1067 (October 31, 2019).|url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1067-joan-shelley|access-date=18 February 2020}}</ref> Shelley and Salsburg had a daughter in 2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/29/folk-singer-joan-shelley-the-spur-interview-max-porter|last=Aroesti|first=Rachel|title=Folk singer Joan Shelley: ‘Keep asking questions. Keep feeling. Don’t go numb’|date=2022-06-29}}</ref>

==Discography==
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'''Studio albums'''<ref name=OfficialSite_recordings>{{cite web|url=http://www.joanshelley.net/|title=Joan Shelly: Listen|website=Joanshelley.net|access-date=2019-08-31}}</ref>
*''By Dawnlight'' (2010, self-released)
*''Ginko'' (2012, Ol Kentuck/ok recordings)
*''Ginko'' (2012, Ol Kentuck/ok recordings)
*''Farthest Field'' - Daniel Martin Moore & Joan Shelley (2012, Ol Kentuck)
*''Farthest Field'' – Daniel Martin Moore & Joan Shelley (2012, Ol Kentuck)
*''Electric Ursa'' (2014, [[No Quarter Records|No Quarter]])
*''[[Electric Ursa]]'' (2014, [[No Quarter Records|No Quarter]])
*''Over and Eve'' (2015, No Quarter)
*''[[Over and Even]]'' (2015, No Quarter)
*''Joan Shelley'' (2017, No Quarter)
*''Joan Shelley (2017, No Quarter)
*''Rivers & Vessels'' (2018, No Quarter)
*''Rivers & Vessels'' (2018, self-released on [[Bandcamp]])
*''Like the River Loves the Sea'' (2019, No Quarter)
*''[[Like the River Loves the Sea]]'' (2019, No Quarter)
*''The Spur'' (2022, No Quarter)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Currin |first=Grayson Haver |date=2022-06-20 |title=Joan Shelley’s New Songs Soothe Old Wounds |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/arts/music/joan-shelley-the-spur.html |access-date=2022-06-21 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The Spur by Joan Shelley |date=2022-06-24 |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-spur/1612674470 |publisher=[[Apple Music]] |language=en-US |access-date=2022-06-21}}</ref>


'''with Maiden Radio'''
'''With Maiden Radio'''
(Maiden Radio are: Joan Shelley, Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Marie Mize)
(Maiden Radio are: Joan Shelley, Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Marie Mize)
*''Maiden Radio'' (2010, self-released)
*''Maiden Radio'' (2010, self-released)
*''Lullabies'' (2011, Ol Kentuck)
*''Lullabies'' (2011, Ol Kentuck)
*''Wolvering'' (2015, ok recordings)
*''Wolvering'' (2015, Ok Recordings)


'''Singles'''
'''Singles'''
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website}}

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[[Category:Musicians from Louisville, Kentucky]]
[[Category:Musicians from Louisville, Kentucky]]
[[Category:1985 births]]
[[Category:1985 births]]
[[Category:University of Georgia alumni]]


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==External links==
* [http://www.joanshelley.net/ Joan Shelley] official website

Latest revision as of 03:23, 27 January 2024

Joan Shelley
Joan Shelley performing with Nathan Salsburg in Whelan's, Dublin in 2017
Joan Shelley performing with Nathan Salsburg in Whelan's, Dublin in 2017
Background information
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Kentucky, United States
OriginLouisville, Kentucky, United States
GenresIndie folk, contemporary folk, country
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Years active2010–present

Joan Shelley (born in 1985) is an American indie folk musician from Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

Career[edit]

Shelley has released nine solo studio recordings. Her second album, Ginko, and third album, Farthest Field (with Daniel Martin Moore), were released in 2012 on Ol Kentuck.[1] In 2014, Shelley released her fourth album, Electric Ursa, on No Quarter Records.[2][3][4] In 2015 she released her fifth album, Over and Even, also on No Quarter.[5][6] In 2017, Shelley released her eponymous sixth album.[7][8][9] Her seventh album, Like the River Loves the Sea, was released in 2019.[10]

No Quarter released Shelley's eighth album, The Spur, on 24 June 2022. Upon its release, the album received critical acclaim.[11][12]

Personal life[edit]

Shelley attended the University of Georgia. She decided to go to the university due to Athens's strong music culture.[13]

Shelley frequently works with her husband, guitarist and musicologist Nathan Salsburg.[14] Shelley and Salsburg had a daughter in 2021.[15]

Discography[edit]

Studio albums[9]

With Maiden Radio (Maiden Radio are: Joan Shelley, Julia Purcell and Cheyenne Marie Mize)

  • Maiden Radio (2010, self-released)
  • Lullabies (2011, Ol Kentuck)
  • Wolvering (2015, Ok Recordings)

Singles

  • "Cost of the Cold" (2016, No Quarter)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Fogel, Tiffanie. "2016 Gladden House Sessions: Joan Shelley". WOUB-FM. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  2. ^ Currin, Grayson. "Joan Shelley: Electric Ursa". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  3. ^ "15 Great Albums You Didn't Hear in 2014". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  4. ^ Bowe, Miles. "Stream Joan Shelley Electric Ursa". Stereogum. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  5. ^ Currin, Grayson. "Joan Shelley: Over and Even". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  6. ^ Breihan, Tom. "Album Of The Week: Joan Shelley Over And Even". Stereogum. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  7. ^ Browne, David. "Review: Joan Shelley's Self-Titled Fourth LP Is Exquisitely Hushed Folk". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  8. ^ Lees, Alasdair. "Joan Shelley on her new album, Leonard Cohen and working with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-09. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Joan Shelly: Listen". Joanshelley.net. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  10. ^ Freeman, Jon (2019-09-03). "Joan Shelley's 'Like the River Loves the Sea' is an Intimate Study in Beauty and Sorrow". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  11. ^ The Spur by Joan Shelley, Metacritic, retrieved 2022-09-30
  12. ^ "Joan Shelley - The Spur". Album of The Year. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  13. ^ Aroesti, Rachel (2022-06-29). "Folk singer Joan Shelley: 'Keep asking questions. Keep feeling. Don't go numb'".
  14. ^ Maron, Marc. "Interview on WTF podcast, episode 1067 (October 31, 2019)". Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  15. ^ Aroesti, Rachel (2022-06-29). "Folk singer Joan Shelley: 'Keep asking questions. Keep feeling. Don't go numb'".
  16. ^ Currin, Grayson Haver (2022-06-20). "Joan Shelley's New Songs Soothe Old Wounds". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
  17. ^ The Spur by Joan Shelley, Apple Music, 2022-06-24, retrieved 2022-06-21

External links[edit]

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