Eilen Jewell hits the Knickerbocker Fri, May 4th at 9:00 pm after a string of dates in Texas and right before taking off for a Scandinavian tour. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door and available online at www.theknickerbockercafe.com or at the Knickerbocker Cafe.
The past year has been an incredible one for Jewell. She toured Europe. Her latest CD, Queen of the Minor Key, landed on No Depression’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2011 poll, hit #1 on the Freeform Americana Report (FAR), and was on many other best of 2011 lists around the country including those of the Boston Globe, Philadelpia Inquirer, allmusic, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and many radio stations around the U.S.
Jewell is coming off a recent 3 week tour of New Zealand and Australia, including the Byron Bay Bluesfest with Maceo Parker, John Fogerty, Crosby Stills Nash and others; and right after the Knickerbocker show, she is set to tour Sweden and Norway and then do 11 U.S. dates with Los Straitjackets.
Eilen and the band have also had songs placed on television including FX’s Sons of Anarchy and HBO’s True Blood, albums climbing on Roots and Americana charts and a win in the 2010 Boston Phoenix Reader’s Poll for Favorite National Singer-Songwriter.
Following the success of her 2009 release, Sea of Tears, Jewell’s last album, a tribute to Loretta Lynn, entitled Butcher Holler, reached #1 on the Roots Music Report Chart and the Freeform American Roots Chart as well as spent 10 weeks on the Americana chart, reaching #6.
Influenced by artists like Dusty Springfield and the 60's British invasion and the early roots of rock n roll and honky tonk, Jewell has her own signature stamp on both originals and covers.
BOSTON GLOBE: Jewell's music has the languorous quietude of (Gillian) Welch or Norah Jones, but there is something more direct, almost in your face, about her stark, neo traditional melodies, subdued vocals, and confident, slow-swaying groove. It's as if she's daring us to say we miss the bells and whistles of pop...Jewell’s songs are achingly good, twanged-out elegies to a world of barbed wire, rusty trucks, and a frontier that no longer exists.
The Age (Melbourne)
Idaho singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell is already the runaway success of the festival. Her latest album, Sea of Tears, is a smouldering mix of rockabilly, country swing and blues that has put her on a pedestal next to Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch.
