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Eilen Jewell (born April 6, 1979 in Boise , Idaho ) is an American songwriter , country and roots rock musician. Since autumn 2003 she has lived and worked in Cambridge , Massachusetts .

biography

Eilen Jewell came into contact with music at an early age. Her parents' extensive record collection provided particular inspiration. She made her first appearances while studying at St. John's College in Santa Fe , New Mexico . The venues were farmers' markets and bars in the vicinity. She then moved to Los Angeles , where she soon became the local star of the Venice Beach music scene . She rated her time as a street musician as positive overall: she helped her to expand her limits as a performer. The detachment from the rural milieu of her childhood and adolescence was also associated with conversion problems: “I grew up in Idaho. Everyone is so friendly. It took a while before I was no longer bothered by what strangers say or do. "

In January 2003 Jewell moved to the east coast. Bored by the hustle and bustle of the west coast metropolis, she lived a few months in seclusion in the Berkshire Mountains in western Massachusetts. Through appearances at Club Helsinki , a nationally known venue for roots music and rock acts, she was able to further expand her reputation as a songwriter, singer and musician. In the late fall of 2003, she moved to Boston and joined the local folk & roots music community. With changing accompanying musicians, she trundled through the clubs in the wider area for the next two years.

In December 2005 the first album was released - Boundary Country , recorded in an old barn and played with a minimal cast: Jason Beek (drums), Daniel Kellar (violin), Jerry Miller (guitar) and Johnny Sciascia (double bass). The nationally released release followed in July 2007 with the second record, Letters from Sinners & Strangers , which also made it into the top ten of the roots rock station "Americana Weekly Radio". Stylistically, the 13 songs were based on their predecessor. Guitar-heavy folk songs in western swing style also featured a mini album called Heartache Boulevard , released in April 2008. The fourth record was Sea of ​​Tears in April 2009 . With the title song "Sea of ​​Tears" it contained not only a hit title track. With good to sometimes enthusiastic reviews, Sea of ​​Tears also meant another breakthrough commercially. Within four weeks the record made it into the top ten of the Americana charts, which are of central importance for roots rock releases . Stylistically, the sound of the fourth record sounds even stricter and more guitar-heavy. In contrast to its predecessor, Sea of ​​Tears is recorded without a violin and only with a basic quartet.

Eilen Jewell released another CD in 2008 with the side project The Sacred Shakers . The concert volume has also increased noticeably since 2007. Compared to 2007 it doubled in 2008 to over a hundred appearances. Thirty of them took place in Western Europe, some of them also in Germany. The fifth CD was a tribute of album with well-known and less well-known songs by Loretta Lynn . The title, Butcher Holler - A Tribute To Loretta Lynn , made reference to the Kentucky town where Lynn grew up and where her career began. Jewell's fifth regular release with original compositions (title: Queen of the Minor Key) came out in June 2011. In addition to 12 new songs, the album contained two instrumentals with a surf sound - the intro title “Radio City” and the outro “Kalimotxo”. Two more studio albums followed by 2017: Sundown Over Ghost Town (2015), a country and singer-songwriter-style release and the album Down Hearted Blues (2017), which consists mainly of blues pieces .

At the same time as her publications, Eilen Jewell is touring at home and abroad. Concerts in the USA and Canada are the main focus. But also in Europe - especially the Netherlands , Great Britain and Germany - she is a regular guest on her tours.

Eilen Jewell performing in Buffalo, New York (January 2011)

Style and reviews

Although she rejects the term “retro music”, Eilen Jewell clearly sees her musical roots in the sixties - the roots rock of that time, but also the electric blues of the Chicago school or British bands such as Them . She names the country singer Loretta Lynn as another role model . She explains her preference for stripped-down, guitar-heavy sounds with 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 that stuff and I love to play it. "

The roots-rock-oriented style also found recognition and praise in newspaper reviews. The LA Daily News wrote: "Sometimes it sounds as dark and damaged as Lucinda Williams , then again defiant like Peggy Lee or in the authentic Americana tradition like Gillian Welch ." The Boston Globe : "Jewell's music has the calm of the earlier (Gillian) Welch or Norah Jones , however, is more direct with their neo-traditional melodies, their muted vocals and the changing grooves of their pieces. ”The music blog Songs: Illinois listed Sea of ​​Tears as a role model. Quote: "This record should be a wake-up call for Lucinda Williams, Lyle Lovett , Steve Earle , and so on, to get them back to their roots."

The musician also received appreciative attention in Germany. The Hamburger Abendzeitung compared the singer on the occasion of a concert announcement in October 2009 with Patsy Cline , Billie Holiday and Patti Smith . Spiegel Online wrote: “Whenever Bob Dylan is approached about his supposed 'Never Ending Tour', he refers to the fact that there are legions of musicians in the USA who are always on concert tour. Just like the young Eilen Jewell and her band, who seemingly perform their wonderfully old-sounding songs in bars and taverns non-stop. "

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)
  • Sundown over Ghost Town (Signature Sounds, 2015)
  • Down Hearted Blues (Signature Sounds, 2017)
  • Gypsy (Signature Sounds, 2019)

more publishments

  • 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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eilen Jewell - Discography . Discography by Eilen Jewell at Discogs, accessed September 30, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jewell, hurry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and country and roots rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Boise , USA