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"Quite simply one of the most gifted performers this area has produced." - The Boston Globe
"A major talent." - Billboard
"*****Five Stars...moving and intense." - MOJO
"Jess Klein's 'City Garden' has the best sound of any roots album I've heard this year...primal, raw, sassy, and sensual...This is an essential roots album." - Roots Music UK
"An intense, focused performer who early in her career has already amassed a compelling body of songs which she fully inhabits while she delivers them as if she is writing them on the spot." - The Berkshire Eagle
"A major talent." - Billboard
"*****Five Stars...moving and intense." - MOJO
"Jess Klein's 'City Garden' has the best sound of any roots album I've heard this year...primal, raw, sassy, and sensual...This is an essential roots album." - Roots Music UK
"An intense, focused performer who early in her career has already amassed a compelling body of songs which she fully inhabits while she delivers them as if she is writing them on the spot." - The Berkshire Eagle
About Me:
Klein returned to the states, moved to Boston, and began performing locally. After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, Klein was spotted and signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard.
Her first release for Ryko, Draw Them Near , [3.5 stars, USA Today], launched Klein on a worldwide tour where, among other highlights, her relaxed confidence and rootsy soulfulness wowed 70,000 attendees at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.
Klein returned to the U.S. and joined the songwriter collective Voices on the Verge, along with Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, and Beth Amsel. The foursome was featured on Good Morning America performing Klein's song 'Little White Dove', and brought crowds in small theaters across the U.S. to their feet nightly with their blend of harmonies and eclectic styles.
2004 saw Klein move to New York City to find some more grit. The result was 2005s Strawberry Lover [Ryko], produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely. Working with Copely brought a rock n roll edge to Kleins work, highlighting the influence on her writing of 70s songwriter albums like Bruce Springsteens Darkness on the Edge of Town, Elvis Costellos My Aim is True, and Patti Smiths Horses, and incorporating those influences with her ongoing childhood love of Motown and soul music.
Strawberry Lover debuted as the Number 1 most added album at triple A radio a week before its release, was given four stars by MOJO, a plug from the nearly 80 million readership Parade, and within weeks of its release, the emotive and sensual title track was named one of the 'Top Ten Sexiest Songs of the Moment' by the NY Daily News, alongside Fifty Cent's 'Candy Shop' and Destiny's Child's 'Soldier'.
While touring for Strawberry Lover, Klein immersed herself in Chicago 60s era blues albums by Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Howlin Wolf and songwriter Willie Dixon, where she could hear examples of a pop/rock sensibility mixed with heartfelt and sensual performances. Also produced by Copely and recorded in New York, City Garden puts Kleins soulful, passionate voice up front, and with lyrics that alternate between searing and heartbreakingly vulnerable, and a gritty production style, conveys the kind of emotional intimacy that caused the Boston Globe to describe her as, 'Quite simply one of the most gifted performers this area has produced.'
City Garden was given ***** 5 Stars by MOJO Magazine and described by Roots Music UK as having The best roots sound of any album Ive heard this year.
Klein now makes her home in Austin, TX, where, between tours of the US and Europe, she is delving further into roots music and writing new material for her next album.
Record Label:
United For Opportunity
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
Jess Klein
Hometown:
Rochester, NY
Country:
United States
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