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Track Listing:
1. Call it Love
2. Just Me
3. Wrong Side of Town
4. Untouchables
5. Johnny Baket
6. Blankets
7. Sad Song
8. Follow Me
9. Love Me or Leave Me
10. Down the Road
11. Home
12. Waltz of the Lonely Teacup
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Influences
Everything I hear sparks inspiration.
Sounds Like
Hopefully like a girl that puts her heart and soul into her singing.
About Emma Hill and (sometimes) Her Gentlemen Callers
Emma Hill is a 21 year old singer songwriter living in Portland Oregon.
Emma began crafting her personal flavor of Folk in the small Alaskan village
she grew up in. After moving to Palmer for High School, Emma quickly became
a staple of the budding Alaskan music scene, bringing her rurally influenced
stylings to Anchorage. Emma sang with the group Blackbird Productions and as
half of the folk duo Pennies and Patches – garnering a large local recognition.
In 2006 Pennies and Patches went on hiatus, and Emma found herself in
Portland, Oregon and began writing more personal solo material. In 2007 Emma recorded and released her first full length album “Just Me” on Kuskokwim
records. “Just Me” showcased her wide vocal range as well as her eclectic
musical taste while staying in the realm of folk/Americana. Emma toured
extensively to support the album throughout the west coast as well as a national
tour. The album also received regular radio play on college and independent
radio stations. “Just Me” reached 8 on the KRUA Anchorage album charts. In
2008 Emma recorded her second album “Clumsy Seduction”, which was
released in March 2009 on Kuskokwim.
Emma maintains her strong folk/Americana roots while telling beautiful stories and unbelievably catchy melodies. Emma has always been commended for singing with a maturity beyond her years, on “Clumsy Seduction” she goes above and beyond; both in her voice and her songwriting. With full instrumentation and her signature songwriting style, “Clumsy Seduction” is the culmination of an artist on the brink. Emma has successfully come into her own solidifying her status within the Folk community as an “Artist to know” in 2009. Fans of her old material will be ecstatic, while new listeners will fall in love fast.
Emma successfully completed a 6 week national tour summer of '09 with full band The Gentlemen Callers in support of “Clumsy Seduction”.
-Kuskokwim Records
This is what the press is saying:
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Dear Emma Hill, (A Love Letter Without Intent or Expectation)
I am not writing because I know a lot about music. The foundations of my knowledge have not been built by sonic masonry, or any welded beams of categorical sound towering through academia and catalogues of the past.
I am not writing because I know enough about music to know you are great.
I am writing because you have filled stories of my empty literary constructs with your voice. It occupies impossible rooms of words, has painted walls of plaster poetry, flung out carpets of thought.
I am not writing because I know what being a great musician is, but because I feel that you are one.
And it’s not really about you being a musician, but a songwriter. I heard you sing, wanting to complete myself with the air circling within you, the melodies and poems it carried. Your voice is velvet, like wine. Sweet and slow like syrup on some slight breeze spring morning of flower petals and delicate sunshine. Or like drunkenness and starlit memories.
How have you never been to my city? You feel like the river, like those gold-water Sundays when the sky eventually stains itself with cabernet and smoke rises from conversation.
I can’t move and it’s been hours since you left The Camel in your chalkboard paint short-bus, Richmond scrawled across the hood, and your name, Emma Hill, in the place generally reserved for nonspecific destinations, like School.
Your giggling pain was slow dancing, animating the lyrics that slid along guitar strings, seeping through the cheap fabric of a Thursday night.
Don’t worry. I won’t follow you back to Portland. I’m no stalker, I’m not looking for love, and in any case not leaving this city for a while. Just please, come back, before you get famous, or tired of trying. (I have no faith in the tastes of popularity.)
I usually drink PBR while I’m out, reserving wine bottles for rooftops and alleyways. But tonight I’m drinking deep, soft red, still listening to a long quiet stage and its blend of suede folk and country, and the blue things you left behind.
I am not writing because I know much about music. I am writing to say that I have a good idea of what’s worth loving in this world, and your music is one of those things.
"Remember the night," she sang, a cappella. "The time we fell in love, with my stomach on the mattress and you whispering from above."
"The noise level dropped by half and faces in the center of the room swung toward the troubadour like weather vanes hit by a sudden wind.
Emma Hill's strong, smooth, pitch-perfect alto has a unique personal timbre that commands attention. Her tone, while flirty, possesses a sense of maturity unexpected in a 21-year-old, a blend of punky confidence and bluesy anguish with an undercurrent of pleading uncertainty."
-Mike Dunham of Alaska Daily News
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Went to Telluride to see Emma Hill and her Gentleman Callers last night at the old historic Opera House. WOW!
I even cried some.I loved witnessing her raw talent, smitten by the soulful harmonics and hauntingly beautiful rifts of the slide guitar.
She's the real deal. I'm excited for her.
-Milady Productions
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"The sultry Northwest folker accomplishes eclectic feats of eye-closing, hip swaying whimsy, crafting songs that are playful, powerful, and wholly her own. Her sophomore release, Clumsy Seduction, is a testament to her masterful understanding of balance in songwriting. She has exceptionally honed her skills by marrying thoughtful storytelling with remarkable melodies - creating the type of songs that sound fresh, yet feel like you’ve known your entire life. " -Hyped Beast Promotions
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"We aren’t quite sure if its her sweet voice or flawless guitar playing but the two combined sure can please." -MusicLog (www.musiclog.com)
"We cry when our talented young musicians leave us for Seattle or Portland, but we swell with pride when they return all grown up, as performers, artists, and humans. Emma Hill is the latests departure-but the Valley girl returns from Portland this week with her guitar and folk songs, ready to win us back." -Alaska Daily News
"Hill has the lungs. She's occasionally stunned crowds into startled silence -- in a good way. Some compare her to Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez."-Alaska Daily News
"Emma’s voice is breathtaking, having that classic quality that leaves her listeners with a sense of the passion she must feel while she’s singing."-Make A Scene! Magazine!
"Emma Hill has found her voice like never before in Just Me, her debut solo release. Emma approaches her music with the same melancholy reminiscent treatment to her songs, while offering something quite new. As always, her lyrics are haunting, touching and beautiful." -Josh Cole from The Frontiersman
"Well-crafted, sweetly flavored folk tunes aren't the only aspect that puts Hill at the front of the pack in her genre. From what I can tell, she's also a hell of a hard worker."..."Hill is toward the front of the line" -Mike Bookey of The Source Weekly
"Hill’s songs, which lilt along
in a folk-singer manner, twangy but with a tinge of jazz and blues
influence, are carried mostly by her beautiful, smoky voice. She sounds
like a rootsier Sarah McLachlan, or perhaps like fellow Alaskan Jewel, but
with more soul."-Ben Salmon of The Bulletin
[SINGER-SONGWRITER] Emma Hill is not afraid to sing. In fact, her voice's countrified richness, delicate inflections and fear-no-range transitions make it easy to imagine that's all she ever does. -AMY MCCULLOUGH of Willamette Weekly
Hey. Thanks for the add. If you like my stuff I'll be playing at Mississippi Pizza on December 8th at 7pm in Portland and I'd love to see you there. Anyways, THANK YOU for your support and have a great week.
wow you are really talented!! yeah i can try to get you a show, level 2 has just shut down so they arent really an option but i know people in longview washington who would probably love to book you!
erick(new drummer for mythological horses)is flying into portland from hawaii tomorrow for a few days.we were just talking about renting a car for a day and driving to the coast.we could cook dinner and have a fun night...maybe friday?
whats your phone number?
got jumped by 3 dudes behind slims last night.fucked me up pretty good.
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