Lynn Miles

Biography

Canadian singer/songwriter Lynn Kilometers, who’s known on her behalf plaintive singing and melancholy muse, is usually set alongside the likes of Shawn Colvin and Lucinda Williams. The Ottawa indigenous entered Carleton University or college with the purpose of learning music, but quickly dropped out to create tunes and perform in the pubs and coffeehouses of Canada’s capital town. She individually released a self-titled debut and Chalk THAT ONE Up to the Moon in the first ’90s. Her music “Remembrance Day time” finished up becoming featured inside a Canadian MILITARY video that depicted the deficits of battle and was televised nationally. In 1996, Kilometers released Somewhat Haunted on Philo Information. The effort finished up like a year-end TOP choose in Billboard Journal. (NY Instances critic Jon Pareles in addition has praised Kilometers’ forlorn songcraft.) Kilometers moved to LA in 1997 and the next year released Night time in a Unusual Town. Around that point, she also do a visitor vocal on fellow Canadian Fred Eaglesmith’s Lipstick, Lays & Gasoline recording (within the monitor “Drinking AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF”). For 2001’s Unravel, Kilometers reunited with longtime collaborator, guitarist Ian Lefeuvre.

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