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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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  • Genre: Americana / Blues / Folk

    Location Nashville, Tennessee, Un

    Profile Views: 46094

    Last Login: 4/7/2011

    Member Since 3/2/2006

    Website www.elizalynn.com

    Record Label Civility Records

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    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. With a career bolstered by community support through album pre-sales and individual and business sponsorship, Lynn is taking the idea of community participation in her musical career a new level in 2011. This fall she will be releasing a Community Produced Album, her first collection of cover songs. Each track has been chosen and sponsored by members of her fan base, what she calls her Circle of Support. The album, the first of two volumes, will include songs by John Prine, Mississippi John Hurt, Dougie MacLean, Old Crow Medicine Show, and many others and is being recorded in Asheville, NC with musicians Will Straughan, Rayna Gellert, Jon Stickley and Alia Clary. This album is a return to her roots after the critical acclaim of her career-defining third full length collection, Haven. On Haven (2009), Lynn worked 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). Haven hit 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/AOL. 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. 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 her albums and live shows. Rarely has time-tested tradition sounded so utterly fresh and contemporary. Whether she's displaying her clawhammer banjo or Piedmont guitar chops or letting the band's sultry groove carry her away, every song provides brilliant musical proof that Eliza Lynn is an artist whose time has come. "Eliza Lynn may as yet an unheralded talent but mark my word she will become a force, and it won't come a day too soon." - Americana UK "This is as classy as classy can get" - Alt Country Forum "This girl's ready to take on the world." - PopMatters.com

  • Members

    Eliza Lynn solo - Vocals, Guitar, Banjo

  • 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: .......... 2005 Debut CD: ..........

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