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Here comes the rocking sophomore effort from an actual sophomore--in high school. Jenny Wolfe was just thirteen when her first album, Jenny Wolfe and the Pack, was recorded, and her voice was mature and stunning then. Now she’s older, wiser, and ready to rock, with her solo album, After School. Jenny’s amazing voice already packed a punch, now it knocks you out. With a rock and roll heart and an uncanny ability to make classic songs her own, Jenny shines on “Dancing in the Streets,” “Baby It’s You,” and “I Want You Back.” But she’s also nailing producer Freddie Steady Krc’s undiscovered power pop gems, along with two tracks that she wrote with Krc (the title track and “Twisted Smile”).
The most dramatic presentations of Miss Wolfe’s voice appear on Krc’s amazing “Lonely Street” and a cover of Big Star’s “Thirteen,” in which she demonstrates an emotional depth of understanding far beyond the thirteen years of the song’s protagonist or even her own sixteen years.
Krc brought in some stellar sidemen, filling out the wall of sound behind the voice, including The Explosives’ Cam King on guitar, Double Trouble’s Reese Wynans ..boards, and British session player, BJ Cole, whose soulful steel has turned up on the recordings of everyone from Elton John to Jerry Lee Lewis.
It’s clear now what Austin, Texas teen Jenny Wolfe will be doing After School in a few years. But you don’t have to wait. It’s After School right now.
--Rush Evans, SteadyBoy Records
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