Eilen Jewell

Although her country-flavored and blues-infused version of contemporary folk (which can also include healthy doses of rockabilly and surf) has drawn comparisons to musicians like Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Jolie Holland, as well as the Be Good Tanyas, Eilen Jewell’s strongest influences have already been the classic sides documented by Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday (the latter artist is not any doubt the foundation for Jewell’s characteristic and surprisingly effective stretched, slowed, and also slurred vocal mannerisms). Created and elevated in Boise, Idaho, Jewell started piano lessons at age seven and found your guitar when she was 14. She also dropped under the effective spell of Smith and Vacation (alongside discovering other performers like Bob Dylan and Howlin’ Wolf). While participating in St. John’s University in Santa Fe, she started playing the neighborhood farmers’ marketplaces and pubs. She transferred to LA, then relocated completely in the united states in early 2003 to traditional western Massachusetts, and afterwards in the entire year she transferred to Boston, where she threw herself in to the energetic local music picture. She documented a live demonstration recording in 2005 known as Nowhere very quickly and released the self-released studio room project Boundary Nation a year later on. The critical reaction to Boundary Nation resulted in her putting your signature on with Signature Seems, and Jewell’s 1st national release, Characters from Sinners & Strangers, made an appearance through the imprint in 2007. Another album from Personal Sounds, Queen from the Small Key, premiered in 2011. Another few years had been spent touring the U.S. and all over the world, culminating within the 2014 live double-album Live in the Narrows. After relocating back again to her hometown of Boise, Idaho, Jewell released her 5th recording, 2015’s Sundown Over Ghost City.