NELL BRYDEN -has what is takes!
Album and single release –“WHAT DOES IT TAKE”- OUT in Ireland May 15th.
Distributed by RMG (In Ireland) . Released by 157 Records NYC.
New York Songstress NELL BRYDEN caused a stir in the press last year when she funded her career with a Milton Avery painting she found in her attic- which she brought to Sotheby’s to auction off, getting a small fortune for it! Instead of depositing it in the unruly stock market, she poured it into her music career-Circling the globe, building a passionate following for her Americana-Country-Soul hybrid sound. Four major International tours in the last 12 months (totalling almost 500 in just over 2 years, including a tour with KT Tunstall, The Counting Crows and impromptu sets with well known Irish acts- Cathy Davey, Damien Dempsey & Declan O’Rourke), and Bryden is already tipped as being one to watch. Nell was also named Best Unsigned Artist of 2008 on Hits Daily Double. Her single “Second Time Around” earned her a Top 40 in the Official Irish Charts and received weekly radio plays across Ireland & The UK. (Including Terry Wogan’s Radio 2 show in the UK). It was “Song of The Week” on one of Ireland biggest National radio stations -Today FM. It was then featured in one of Ireland’s most well known compilations CEOL (09) CD, featuring along side Glen Hansard, Duke Special, Mick Flannery and other well known Top Irish Acts. Nells current album -What Does It Take- is now sharing massive success across the radio waves in Ireland and The UK, and is playlisted on all daytime Regional and National radio in Ireland including RTE radio1.
Nell was also interviewed on one of Britain’s biggest shows- The BBC Breakfast TV show (with other special guests such as Enrique Iglesias, GOK WAN and Daniel Craig). Nell was then invited onto Ireland’s biggest TV SHOW “The Late Late Show” with Pat Kenny alongside ENYA & Pete Doherty. She has had features in lifestyle and music magazines such as CHOICE magazine, Irish Times, The Times, The Herald, Social & Personal Magazine, UNCUT, Q & WORD along with TV slots on BBC, RTE, TV3, Channel 6, Buzz TV & URMUZIC. Award Winning Documentary maker Susan Cohn Rockefeller just filmed Nells recent 2nd IRAQ tour, highlighting a “twelve-day jaunt” from Victory Stage in Baghdad to the smaller Forward Operating Bases where troops tend to be more starved for entertainment. Through her eyes, ‘Live From Iraq’ will provide a glimpse into that little seen world of the military overseas.
Born into an artistic family, (her father an impressionist painter and her Mother a classical singer) Nell Bryden was entertaining her fellow toddlers at the age of two, playing piano at four, and cello at nine. Maybe not with the expertise she enjoys now, but the inherent love of music was the same. Luckily for us, that love of performing has only grown. Balancing her time in the recording studio, Bryden is constantly crossing the oceans, sharing a blend of blues, country, modern-Dixie and jazz into a song writing style uniquely her own. Wellesley-educated, she independently released five CDs; her sixth- What Does It Take—produced by multi-Grammy-winning producer David Kershenbaum (Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Joe Jackson)—is scheduled for release in Summer 2009. David was so excited to be working with Nell and claimed “He hadn’t been this excited about an act since Tracy Chapman!” The Counting Crows guitarist Dave “IMMY” Immergluck- also plays on the album. With a bevy of industry tastemakers and major Irish, British and American labels at each show she plays, Nell is simply the most talked about and sought after new artist of 2009. Nell has built this buzz the old-fashioned way: word-of-mouth endorsements of her live show. She has been deemed as one of the British Isles and indeed Ireland’s next breaking act. What does it take- well lets just say, she has what it takes!
JANICE LONG BBC RADIO "In her circa 50s cocktail frock and killer heels Nell takes bluegrass, jazz and country mashes it up and belts it out. She can play, has a voice to die for, writes great songs and I am starting to think I hate her. Too much talent should not be allowed."
BOB HARRIS- BBC RADIO ‘Nell Bryden – Well I think this album is absolutely brilliant’
TIME OUT NEW YORK “Graceful, challenging, unguarded, powerful: such are the songs of this talented young lady, who not only wrote all the songs, but also plays electric, acoustic and twelve string guitars, Dobro and cello.”
THE SUN “American blues star Nell Bryden is shooting to the top”
THE HITSHEET “The Country Blues of Up-and-Coming Brooklyn born Nell Bryden was worth the trip alone and I think Nell is one to be watched”
IRISH TIMES “The new disc marks yet another step for this talented performer; she still tugs heartstrings in ballads like "Only Life I Know," but "Tonight" and "Late Night Call" reveal a playful sass previously reserved for her live dates"
Q MAGAZINE “Americana Nell Bryden’s album “Second time Around” shows off her Warm rich voice with perky tunes that may furnish Bryden’s fairytale with an even sweeter second chapter”
