Eliza's Band =
Will Straughan - guitar, dobro, harmony vocals,
Jeff Hersk - upright bass,
Mike Rhodes - drums,
Eliza Lynn- vocals, guitar, banjo **********
Grit Pixies:
Jill Fromewick - harmonica, washboard, vocals and
Eliza Lynn - vocals and guitar **********
Influences
There are so many kinds of influences on my music. There are the names that people would recognize like Hoagy Carmichael, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Billie Holiday, Mississippi John Hurt, Dolly Parton, Precious Bryant, Tracy Chapman, Loretta Lynn, Paul Simon, Lyle Lovett, Ali Farka Toure, Gene Harris, Reverand Gary Davis, Merle Haggard and so many others. But those folks are only partially responsible for the way I sound. I am more influenced by the people who have been in my life, who I sing with, who are friends or family members. Singing with my parents and brother, in the car, with the lanterns lit when the electricity was out, at church. Singing the same Merle Haggard song over and over again in the car, teaching it to the gymnastic carpool when I was little. Suddenly it seemed like the whole gymnastics team was singing "Mama Tried." Or being in the stairwell at Warren Wilson College, belting spirituals, trying to sing harmony, being buoyed by the strength of my voice in the echo. When I've traveled to foreign countries, I've learned new songs and found a depth to my understanding of myself and my own culture in sharing songs. In Lesotho, in Southern Africa, in a home stay, my family told me that I sounded like Dolly Parton. I sang for them, they taught me beautiful songs that still sit easy in my heart. In a small dirt floored kitchen in India, a young boy sang with such beauty as a friend and I ate chapattis, rain on the roof overhead. I am influenced by the weirdness of being a person who sings wherever she goes. I know it is not normal, and there's no other way I'd rather be.
Sounds Like
BRAND NEW CD! 2009 Release - Haven:
2007 Release with Asheville, NC All Stars:
Blues Duo with Harmonica Extraordinare Jill Fromewick:
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When Eliza Lynn tosses her long red hair back and steps up to the microphone to sing, a world of music comes pouring out. Foothills folk, backwoods hollers, playful pop, lilting Texas Swing and deep country blues; over the course of her young-but-well-traveled life, the Nashville and Asheville based singer/songwriter has absorbed it all, and with the release of Haven, her career-defining third full-length collection, Lynn succeeds in integrating those freewheeling influences into a compelling and seamless musical whole.
Working with Nashville producer/guitarist Thomm Jutz [Nanci Griffith, Mary Gauthier], and a core group of Music City's finest players (including Griffith drummer Pat McInerney and longtime Ricky Skaggs bassist Mark Fain), Lynn hits a deeply traditional vein only hinted at on her two previous critically acclaimed releases, 2005's Frisky Or Fair and The Weary Wake Up from 2007.
It was "Sing A New Song," a track from her debut album, that helped to spread the singer's reputation beyond her loyal Asheville fan base and kicked off the chain of events that would lead up to the making of Haven. Citing Lynn's "enormous talent," Putumayo World Music featured the song on their 2007 compilation release, Americana. Lynn rode the success of that track all the way to London, where, accompanying herself on guitar and clawhammer banjo, she dazzled her hosts at famed Abbey Road Studios in a live worldwide broadcast for XM Radio/Worldspace. From there, she was off to the 2008 Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival, where she first encountered both producer Jutz and Scottish folk star Dougie McLean, who subsequently invited Lynn to join him at his own festival, Perthshire Amber, in Scotland.
Inspired and energized by her overseas successes, Lynn headed straight to Nashville and into Jutz' TJ Tunes Studios to record the album of her career. From the sultry groove established on the disc's opening track, "Hard To Let It Hurt," it's clear that, armed with the strongest and most personal songs she's ever written, the singer is taking no prisoners this time out.
Built on a sturdy Appalachian foundation and soaked in the blues, Lynn's evocative singing voice, which has drawn comparisons to everyone from Bonnie Raitt to Peggy Lee, is the driving force and centerpiece of Haven. Her interpretation of "I'll Fly Away" transforms that gospel classic into a stirring, minor-key lament, and Lynn performs similar magic on the album's closing song, a bare-bones take on the traditional Irish hymn, "Be Thou My Vision." But, from "Rush Of The Fall," a poignant waltz-time ode to the loneliness of the road, to the banjo-driven, back-and-forth struggle of "Pulling Of Tides," it's her own soul-penetrating songs that carry the day.
Rarely has time-tested tradition sounded so utterly fresh and contemporary. Whether she's displaying those banjo-and-Piedmont guitar chops on the playful "Lazy Day," or letting the band's sultry groove carry her away on "Chicken Bone," every song on Haven provides brilliant musical proof that Eliza Lynn is an artist who's time has come.
Please see Eliza's Website:
www.elizalynn.com
for more information. Thanks for visiting!
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After pre-release tours in Colorado and Georgia, Dehlia Low’s new full-length cd “Tellico” will be presented for the first time in Asheville this Thursday at the Grey Eagle ($8/10, thegreyeagle.com)! Several cuts off the new disk can be heard on at www.myspace.com/dehlialow and live takes of a few of the songs will be performed Thursday afternoon on WNCW 88.7FM. Thursday night’s show will also be a chance for those of you who didn’t make it to Merlefest to hear Lyons, Colorado’s own Spring Creek Bluegrass Band, who are also preparing to release a new disk next month. Dehlia Low will also be joined by “Tellico” producer Jon Stickley of the Shannon Whitworth band. We hope to see you out and thanks for supporting live, original, and local music.
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