“If Neko Case, Madeleine Peyroux and Billie Holiday had a baby girl who grew up to front a rockabilly band, she’d probably sound a lot like Eilen Jewell.” – Washington Post
We brought her to London back in October 2011, and Lord knows we’ve missed her. We’re enormously pleased to welcome Eilen Jewell and her band back on 05 April 2011 at the beautiful Bush Hall.
Since her official 2006 debut, ‘Boundary County’, Eilen has surveyed a wide range of traditional musical styles, from the folk and jug band leanings of her early recordings, through an album-length homage to Loretta Lynn and the country gospel of her work with The Sacred Shakers, right up to 2009’s Sea of Tears, which bristled with the electricity of ’60s UK garage rock and Chicago blues.
“A voice of real distinction that manages to transcend some powerful influences and pierce the fog long enough for her own point of view to emerge. Recommended to box-car riders everywhere.” – The Word
Her latest album ‘Queen of the Minor Key’ draws on everything from classic country (the fiddle-driven ‘Reckless’) to early R&B (the shuffling ‘Hooked’), with an emphasis on sounds from the seamier side of the tracks. With dirty sax riffs and low-slung guitars, the instrumentals that bookend the album – Radio City’ and ‘Kalimotxo’ – evoke the bump-and-grind exotica of vintage Southern California suburban saloons. Yet on the flipside, Jewell imbues slow, jazzy numbers like ‘I Remember You’ and ‘Only One’ with torch and tenacity that linger long past last call.
Eilen Jewell is the Queen of the Minor Key. Sad songs are her wealth and finery. Lend her your ears on 05 April, and you will quickly hear why her humble subjects admire and adore her more with each passing year.
Bush Hall
310 Uxbridge Road,
Shepherd’s Bush
London W12 7LJ
Walking map from Shepherd’s Bush Market tube (Hammersmith & City Line)
Walking map from Shepherd’s Bush tube (Central Line)
Walking map from Shepherd’s Bush rail (Overground Line)
7.30 doors
8.15 Eilen Jewell (45)
9.20 Eilen Jewell (45)
£12.50 at 5000tickets, WeGotTickets and TicketWeb
£15 door
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