Jenn Wertz

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I like lookin' at fiber-optic-type lights/anything that looks shimmery..





Rusted Root from 1990 to 1996, and again from 2000 until March 2007.

I write songs and sing and play; guitar, harmonica, and various percussion instruments.
> hear me play and sing on these Root albums;
'When I woke', 'Cruel Sun', 'Welcome to my party', and the late release 'Live'(double CD). ..

solo singer and songwriter;
Lovechild ( re release!available NOW)

Isabella (available now!! a new EP!!)

acoustic (full CD available now)

Play Alvarez acoustic guitars and this is A Good Thing.

I make art. Please refer to the photo album with art in it in my pics section.

ARTICLES:
The Cleveland Scene "A little write-up"

The News-Times - May 2007 "Isabella's Jenn Wertz enjoys music post-Rusted Root"

The Chicago Flame - March 2007 "Sitting down with Jenn Wertz" Daniel Jerez

Jambase - February 2007 "Rusted Root Singer Leaves"

Boston Herald - February 2007 "..Fertile Ground" JED GOTTLIEB (PDF)

Post Gazette - February 2007 - "Wertz takes her leave of Rusted Root" - Scott Mervis

Lumino Magazine - January 2004 "2003 CD's You Might Have Missed" - NED O'REILLY   

Member Since:

October 25, 2005

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Jenn's CD's are NOW Available @ CDBaby!



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Influences:

..I love cheesy, emotional pop hits from the 70s, like;rich girl,sara smile, and shes gone by Hall and Oates, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty...exile and Firefall,Nick Gilder, and too many other one hit wonders to name.

Rickie lee Jones, Katell Keinig(jet),The Rollin'Stones; SPOON, Buttons,Beggars,Exile,Let it Bleed,Sticky,jammin with Edward,yayas,gimmeshelter,most good old (Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Muddy)blues,and really any old rock and roll records that influenced the second wave( chuck berry,buddy,everlys,gene vincent and blue caps,etc,etc)

Neil Young, CRazy horse,the KingBobDylan,the Band,Broken Social secene. Alcohol and Weed, Beck, Queen, Pretenders, Zeppelin, the GoGos, theReplacements, ELO, talking heads, Franz ferdinand, Blondie, Ben Harper(cruel world!!!),..the Stray Cats

beach boys, New Invisible Joy,Everly brothers, Buddy Holly, Cat stevens, james taylor, elton john, (but mostly just madman across the water)INXS before kick.

bruce Cockburn, j.buckley, Cowboy Junkies trinity sessions, wildflowers by Tom Petty, the Cars, Roxy Music, marianne Faithfull, the police, the Talking Heads(esp. the naive melody)

Gary Musisko,Nick Drake, AnitaPallenberg, Michael Jackson;pre thriller,the Kinks, crawlin'lowband, Trevor Hall, the Sweet, the Babies, Joan Jett,Peter Case, Ike and Tina Turner,Gov't Mule, John Cash, Billie Holiday, Janis, Tom Waits, the Clash, Elvis COSTELLO!!!, Coldplay-rush of blood, old Rusted Root, U2, the Frames,Velvet Underground,the Doors(morrison hotel),Aerosmiths first record only,Chaka Khan with Rufus. I love me some Steely Dan, PFloyd, and Zappa, but only really in small doses

Movies; anything involving

John Cassevetes....
Memento, dog day afternoon,the unbearable lightness of being,the deer hunter,rebel without a cause, east of Eden,the celebration, Five Easy Pieces..Harold and Maude, Rushmore, shine, slingblade, royal tannenbaums, best in show, Performance, Gimme Shelter, groundhog day, usual suspects..team america ,american beauty,sexy beast, the French Connection,Casablanca, Being John Malkovich, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, twelve Monkeys, Brazil, the Fifth Element, Galaxyquest,the piano, the pianist, Flirting with disaster,the Shining,Michael Moore flicks,the Fountain,Elizabeth, Koyandiscansci(sp),Monty Python, Boxof moonlight, the last temptation of Christ, made in heaven, defending your life..,dumb and dumber, the ice storm,Secrets and Lies, Angels and Insects, About a boy, High Fidelity , Ponyo

The Fountain ..

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