Jordie Lane
Shea Theater Arts Center
71 Ave A
Turners Falls, MA 01376
Oct 18, 2019
7:30 PM EDT
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Eilen's new album, "Gypsy," is due to be released in August of 2019, and she's calling this one her favorite yet. At long last, a new album of Eilen originals! New sounds. Old sounds. Electric guitar driven rockers. Classic country. Tender ballads. A Pinto Bennett cover. A protest song. It's all there. Get your signed copy at this show!
As hard as it is to categorize Eilen Jewell’s music - terms like alt-country, roots-rock, country-noir and Americana get used a lot - it’s even harder not to become thoroughly enraptured by the singer/songwriter’s powerful versatility, musical stories and images. And that gorgeous voice makes you feel like she’s singing just for you, out on the breezy back porch or by a crackling campfire. She does so much, so well.
A few examples: Butcher Holler, Jewell’s acclaimed 2010 tribute to Loretta Lynn, underscores her love for tough traditional country music, coal miner’s daughter style, while her electrifying cover of Shakin’ All Over, originally a 1960 chart-topping British hit for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, was one of the surprise highlights of 2009’s Sea of Tears. Propelled by Jerry Miller’s shimmering guitar dazzle, the song remains a live showstopper where hints of ’60s surf instrumentals and “Paint It, Black” are deftly thrown in for good measure. On 2011’s Queen of the Minor Key, featuring guest appearances from the likes of Big Sandy and Zoe Muth, Jewell penned all the songs. One of its radio favorites is Warning Signs, with references to a black widow, a rattlesnake, and a beady-eyed raven. Jewell calls the song “creepy.” The Boston Globe called Minor Key, “emotionally raw and riveting,” and an NPR commentator declared, “She’s got a sweet and clear voice with a killer instinct lurking beneath the shiny surface.”
Opener: JORDIE LANE with CLARE REYNOLDS - Jordie Lane's knack for comedic storytelling, incredible voice and unique rhythmic guitar playing has taken him around the world, touring with Gotye, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Neko Case, Cat Power, The Weakerthans, Ruthie Foster, Mary Chapin Carpenter and The Moody Blues.
Clare Reynolds' vocal and instrumental harmonic quality is matched by few others, and their symbiotic connection has been likened to somewhere between Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and Shovels & Rope.
Their latest EP, ‘Lost’ features legendary drummer Jim Keltner (Traveling Wilburys, John Lennon) and mixed by local Jordan Lehning (Rayland Baxter, Josh Headley).
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Jordie Lane Biography
“Jordie Lane has been making dark-hearted, voluptuously verbose folk music with a grinning rock ‘n roll spirit for nearly a decade. Now based out of Nashville, TN, Lane has surely cemented his place as one of Australia's most beloved and respected roots music artists.”
Z LUPETIN - THE SHOW ON THE ROAD (Bluegrass Situation Network)
With a career now spanning 15 years, 9 releases under his belt, named in Melbourne Magazine’s 100 most influential people, and nominated for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s ‘Barry Award’, winning Double J’s Radio ‘Tower of Song’, Jordie Lane is widely regarded as one of Australia’s finest singer-songwriters and live performers.
Born to a comedian & a clown, Lane spent his early years in a traveling circus. His nomadic touring lifestyle and knack for comedic storytelling confirm the theory one is a product of their upbringing, but when you watch Jordie perform live it is his incredible voice and unique rhythmic guitar playing that seem like they come from another place and another time.
It is a voice that has taken him around the world, performing major festivals in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, and touring with the likes of international legends, Gotye, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Neko Case, Cat Power, The Weakerthans, Ruthie Foster, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and The Moody Blues.
The much loved Australian indie roots artist, who recently moved from Melbourne to LA to Nashville, is malleable and resilient despite the torrent of changes that have come his way. His last album release, GLASSELLLAND, was released worldwide in September 2018.
Pronounced Glas-Sell-Land, the album was praised by the Australian press across the board with 4 star reviews in The Music, Rolling Stone, Herald Sun and named ‘Double J Album Of The Week’, Lane’s song ‘Black Diamond’ was also awarded ‘Tower Of Song Of The Year’ on Double J Radio and came 24th in their top 50 Albums.
With Top 10 success on the Roots Music Report Chart and cracking the top 100 on the AMA/CDX Americana Chart. Lane has also previously been added to high rotation on Sirius XM Radio’s ‘The Coffeehouse Channel.
He has appeared on Paste Magazine's Daytrotter sessions, The prestigious NPR Radio’s ‘Mountain Stage’ and ‘Folk Alley’. Lane has played many of the worlds top festivals including, Americana Music Fest, Sisters Folk Fest, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Calgary Music Festival and Edmonton Folk Festival, Celtic Connections (Scotland), Falls Fest, West Coast Blues & Roots (Aus) Woodford Folk Festival (Aus).
Reviews from Last Album GLASSELLLAND:
“The total clincher though is the totally vivid and disturbing narrative of Lane’s great-grandfather and his war-time experiences – “Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson”. With a resonating, sparse riff and steady, front-of-house percussion, this is reminiscent of the great Neil Young brooding arrangements. Buy the album just for this song – harrowing.
The time to enjoy this personal, discerning, exemplary assemblage is now.”
NO DEPRESSION (USA)
"in the same way that Sturgill Simpson can bring a room to tears one minute, and have the crowd hollering for more the next, Lane plays with both harmony and grit."
Gigie Hall, CULTURE COLLIDE (USA)
“he plays sort of the psych prophet in the way of a Father John Misty, yet with a more diverse sound. The shared vocals are especially beautiful and engaging as it builds and climaxes incredibly.”
EAR TO THE GROUND (USA)
Glassellland has a kaleidoscopic quality that extends Lane’s musical scope and range of vocal expression.
There’s a psychedelic Beatles’ Sgt Pepper feel in the alternating rhythm and tempo changes of In Dreams of War; a kind of Fab Four meet Chris Isaak ambience in the arrangement of the equally expansive America, Won’t You Make My Dreams Come True, a vocal duet with his collaborator. Stripped back to acoustic guitar and harmonica, Lane’s closer to 1960s Dylan in Better Not Go Outside and Time Just Flew, spitting out lines such as “try not to obsess over symmetry / accept that death is history” and “I wake when the day is done / I do my living without the sun” with laissez-faire attitude. There are shades of Neil Young in the folk-rockers Black Diamond and Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson. In the latter, Lane’s gruff singing and grungy electric guitar riffs intensify a song about guilt and a grandfather who “killed a man in World War I”. In Dreamin’ the Life, the dynamics and opening gambit are reminiscent of Jeff Lang: “Thornbury tram to a London tube”.
Tony Hillier, The Australian
4 Stars - The Music
4 Stars - Herald Sun
4 Stars - Rolling Stone
4 Stars - The Australian
Feature Album Of The Week Double J
‘Tower Of Song Of The Year 2016’ Double J
‘filled with superb story songs’
Jeff Jenkins, STACK MAG
‘Astounding’ ROLLING STONE
“Take pieces of Jeff Tweedy, Ron Sexsmith and Jackson Browne, melt them down in a beautiful crucible of music and you end up with Jordie Lane: a truly diverse folk musician” FBI Radio
“A young man with an old soul and an honest sound, harkening back to Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan” – The Bluegrass Situation
“Displaying the soulful tenderness of Ron Sexsmith and Ray LaMontagne…Lane’s gentle finger picking and intimate vocals lend a somber grace that is universal” – Rolling Stone Magazine
-‘filled with superb story songs’Jeff Jenkins, STACK MAG
- ‘Astounding’ ROLLING STONE
http://www.jordielane.com
Read MoreZ LUPETIN - THE SHOW ON THE ROAD (Bluegrass Situation Network)
With a career now spanning 15 years, 9 releases under his belt, named in Melbourne Magazine’s 100 most influential people, and nominated for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s ‘Barry Award’, winning Double J’s Radio ‘Tower of Song’, Jordie Lane is widely regarded as one of Australia’s finest singer-songwriters and live performers.
Born to a comedian & a clown, Lane spent his early years in a traveling circus. His nomadic touring lifestyle and knack for comedic storytelling confirm the theory one is a product of their upbringing, but when you watch Jordie perform live it is his incredible voice and unique rhythmic guitar playing that seem like they come from another place and another time.
It is a voice that has taken him around the world, performing major festivals in the US, Canada, UK and Australia, and touring with the likes of international legends, Gotye, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Neko Case, Cat Power, The Weakerthans, Ruthie Foster, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and The Moody Blues.
The much loved Australian indie roots artist, who recently moved from Melbourne to LA to Nashville, is malleable and resilient despite the torrent of changes that have come his way. His last album release, GLASSELLLAND, was released worldwide in September 2018.
Pronounced Glas-Sell-Land, the album was praised by the Australian press across the board with 4 star reviews in The Music, Rolling Stone, Herald Sun and named ‘Double J Album Of The Week’, Lane’s song ‘Black Diamond’ was also awarded ‘Tower Of Song Of The Year’ on Double J Radio and came 24th in their top 50 Albums.
With Top 10 success on the Roots Music Report Chart and cracking the top 100 on the AMA/CDX Americana Chart. Lane has also previously been added to high rotation on Sirius XM Radio’s ‘The Coffeehouse Channel.
He has appeared on Paste Magazine's Daytrotter sessions, The prestigious NPR Radio’s ‘Mountain Stage’ and ‘Folk Alley’. Lane has played many of the worlds top festivals including, Americana Music Fest, Sisters Folk Fest, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Calgary Music Festival and Edmonton Folk Festival, Celtic Connections (Scotland), Falls Fest, West Coast Blues & Roots (Aus) Woodford Folk Festival (Aus).
Reviews from Last Album GLASSELLLAND:
“The total clincher though is the totally vivid and disturbing narrative of Lane’s great-grandfather and his war-time experiences – “Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson”. With a resonating, sparse riff and steady, front-of-house percussion, this is reminiscent of the great Neil Young brooding arrangements. Buy the album just for this song – harrowing.
The time to enjoy this personal, discerning, exemplary assemblage is now.”
NO DEPRESSION (USA)
"in the same way that Sturgill Simpson can bring a room to tears one minute, and have the crowd hollering for more the next, Lane plays with both harmony and grit."
Gigie Hall, CULTURE COLLIDE (USA)
“he plays sort of the psych prophet in the way of a Father John Misty, yet with a more diverse sound. The shared vocals are especially beautiful and engaging as it builds and climaxes incredibly.”
EAR TO THE GROUND (USA)
Glassellland has a kaleidoscopic quality that extends Lane’s musical scope and range of vocal expression.
There’s a psychedelic Beatles’ Sgt Pepper feel in the alternating rhythm and tempo changes of In Dreams of War; a kind of Fab Four meet Chris Isaak ambience in the arrangement of the equally expansive America, Won’t You Make My Dreams Come True, a vocal duet with his collaborator. Stripped back to acoustic guitar and harmonica, Lane’s closer to 1960s Dylan in Better Not Go Outside and Time Just Flew, spitting out lines such as “try not to obsess over symmetry / accept that death is history” and “I wake when the day is done / I do my living without the sun” with laissez-faire attitude. There are shades of Neil Young in the folk-rockers Black Diamond and Frederick Steele McNeil Ferguson. In the latter, Lane’s gruff singing and grungy electric guitar riffs intensify a song about guilt and a grandfather who “killed a man in World War I”. In Dreamin’ the Life, the dynamics and opening gambit are reminiscent of Jeff Lang: “Thornbury tram to a London tube”.
Tony Hillier, The Australian
4 Stars - The Music
4 Stars - Herald Sun
4 Stars - Rolling Stone
4 Stars - The Australian
Feature Album Of The Week Double J
‘Tower Of Song Of The Year 2016’ Double J
‘filled with superb story songs’
Jeff Jenkins, STACK MAG
‘Astounding’ ROLLING STONE
“Take pieces of Jeff Tweedy, Ron Sexsmith and Jackson Browne, melt them down in a beautiful crucible of music and you end up with Jordie Lane: a truly diverse folk musician” FBI Radio
“A young man with an old soul and an honest sound, harkening back to Gram Parsons and Bob Dylan” – The Bluegrass Situation
“Displaying the soulful tenderness of Ron Sexsmith and Ray LaMontagne…Lane’s gentle finger picking and intimate vocals lend a somber grace that is universal” – Rolling Stone Magazine
-‘filled with superb story songs’Jeff Jenkins, STACK MAG
- ‘Astounding’ ROLLING STONE
http://www.jordielane.com
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