Influences?! I-Can't-Sit-Still-So-I-Might-As-Well-Rock + MY OWN FUCKING MANIA YOU WISH YOU HAD
and STILL the first word I ever spoke on this earth was "love"...
only women bleed, praise you, etta, thank you, you honor me by being
red dirt, poontwang, profane thoughts, transistor radios, piggly wiggly, hawgs, hills, horseshoes, high and lonesome sounds, women with big hair + bigger voices
abbeville, alabama, where i learned how to walk, and then run, mussel shoals, alabama, knowing WHAT mussel shoals was at age 4 and getting saved by it like bezillions of us, honoring it along with a few other Southern cities as having birthed this nation's biggest cultural contribution to the world: ITS POPULAR MUSIC born from THE BLUES
gunsmoke+miss kitty, mae west, pamela debarres, the plaster casters, beer, dive-hopping, dives, high heels and fishnets, zippos, dildos, dogwoods
XX songwriters, etta james, janis joplin, aretha franklin, candi staton, matreca berg, lucinda williams, who NEVER gave up, dolly goddess parton, loretta lynn, tammy wynette, mahalia jackson, koko taylor, wanda jackson, shelby lynne, allyson moorer, kim ritchie, shawn colvin, rosanne cash, the carter family, june carter cash, miss kitty wells, rickie lee jones, chryssie hynde, patsy cline, neko case, patty griffin, mindy smith, girls, chicks, wimmin
XY songwriters, willie nelson, mike younger, roots rock rebel, lucero, KRISTOFFERSON BY GAWD, the knitters, son house, willie dixon, woody guthrie, rodney crowell, porter wagoner, steve earle, john prine, hank sr, hank III, TOWNES VAN ZANDT, robert johnson, kevin welch, brian mcknight, babyface, jason ecklund, shawn mullins, shooter jennings, my musician parents
defiling all that's sacred, making sacred of the profane, scary spirits, BOO!
general sentimentality, specific sentimentality, melancholic-beer-swilling, wish-i could-die-songs
jukeboxes on tabletops, neon signs, shotgun shacks, fender telecasters, fender strats, six strings, thank you for them...
not glorifying redneck mentality, but instead talking about the south's painful and ugly history, it's there, admit it, go to the civil rights museum at the lorraine hotel today and LOOK
roadtrips away from my hometown and away from my perspective, re-evaluating my assumptions
bugs bunny and split wood fences, chicken coops and sweet tea, pressure cookers and gardens, crickets, cicadas, the dust that covers your knuckles when you knock on the door of an old trailer whose white paint is oxidizing
snoozing safely with my daddy in the 1820 house he restored while it stormed outside and walnuts plopped on the galvanized steel roof, riding with my parents down long dirt roads so they could sit outside with very old black men + watch them make white oak baskets, then seeing my father pay fairly for them
porch swings and tree wings, dragonflies and grackles
vengeance, gun racks, knives, and visions of revenge
getting over it by popping a couple of longnecks + smiling till it sticks
Sounds Like
an 18-wheeler takin out guard rail with a messa bootleg whiskey in the back...
When you get a Cesca CD, you don't just get KUDZU RED DIRT POONTWANG ROCK, you getta bag of HOMINY GRITS!
xo, cesca
some press
"...folky... with a touch of the blues and the intensity of gospel. Her lyrics are downright stirring..."
MARC NOLIS, Rootstown Magazine, Antwerp, Belgium
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"...sounds like Patsy Cline meets Chuck Berry... a great singer."
the Compass, Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk
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"Songwriter Cesca takes a traditionally male oriented theme and turns it around..."
The Best Female Musicians, New York City
"I enjoyed listening to your music. What I hear are solid songs, a solid voice, and a band who knows when to play and when to leave spaces. All so much more than what I usually hear."
KEN St. JOHN, Twangdemonium.com, Texas
"Remember the name Cesca...poetically angry rock...
Live Review: The Rip Current, December 2003, Manteo, N.C.
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"...quite stunning in terms of songwriting, passion and performance ... a number of rare gifts that captivate with voice and guitar alone. Beautiful and powerful material."
GEORGE MAIDA, WCVE 88.9, Richmond, VA
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"...a dynamic singer songwriter."
The Coastland Times, North Carolina, January 15, 2004
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"Thank you for sending me [Sweetbriar]. I love your style and writing and you have a great voice."
LANEY GOODMAN, host of nationally syndicated radio show Women in Music with Laney Goodman, Boston, MA
We just had a great interview w/ 'ZOSO' - Led Zeppelin Tribute Band at 'The National' (RVA) on 10/16/09 ... You can check out our entire audio interview at: www.richmondmusicforum.com
We had a great interview w/ 'Bruce Hornsby' at 'The National' (RVA) this month ... You can check out our entire interview at: www.richmondmusicforum.com
We had a great interview w/ 'Elliott Yamin' (RVA) of "American Idol' this month ... You can check out our entire interview at: www.richmondmusicforum.com
'Roslyn' (RVA) Performing Live @ 'The National' 708 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 November 7, 2009 @ 6:00 pm Tickets Can Be Purchased at: www.RoslynVa.BigCartel.com
Thanks for having me as a myspace friend...I really need your help.I'm Nominated for the QC awards and I need your Vote..Please go to www.queencityawards.com enter site click on nomination,scroll down to Country Artist (Male) and please throw me your vote.. Promoted by Missongwriter Promotions NOW BOOKING 2010 South Carolina ,North Carolina,Virginia,Georgia,Tennessee Call 843-450-0171 for submission details and requirements
If you want to know first where my next shows will be , watch new videos and hang out with other fans. Then join the Jeffrey Allen Edwards Fan Club Go to or click on the link below and I will see you there soon. This is all very new to me and I look forward to any and all things that bring me closer to my friends and fans.
Hey I just wanted to say hello. .I hope alls well Stop in check out a song or video and leave me a comment. Next Show April 4th at The Carolina Entertainment Complex in Marion SC Tickets just $10 plus taxes and fees Camping Availible For Tickets Goto www.entertaincarolina.com or call 843-423-0077 I'm 29th in the Myspace Country Charts!! Drop me a line anytime. Jeff
Come to Capitol Ale House saturday for the B-side Electric Blues Band featuring Brian Fones, Dean Berry, Andre Labelle, and Jon Grigg. We go on at 9ish and play for only an hour. Hope to see you there.
xo, cesca
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