Jenny Lewis - Joy'All - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Late night '60s R&B caught on tape at Jim Kirchstein's jack-of-all genres Cuca studio. Released on minuscule pressings into the Wisconsin wilderness, these 26 sasquatch-rare tracks uncover the soulful paths between the Chicago, Milwaukee, Rockford, and Rockford scenes. Featuring Harvey Scales, Step By Step, Betty Moorer, Seven Sounds, Twiliters, Birdlegs & Pauline, Esquires, Artie & The Pharaohs, and Fantastic Six, this 2xLP tells an alternate history of soul music that could only happen in the Hinterlands on Highway 12.

Jenny is a native of New Orleans residing in Oregon. She has been singing and playing the guitar since the age of 10. She is a mother, wife, singer, and songwriter with a zest for family and friends. Her first CD, 'Free To Be Me,' was released December 2007 followed by 'Fierce With Reality' December 2008 and then her most recent 'It's Your Turn...Shine' released June 2011. 'Like a whisper in my ear, these songs came to me; inspiration flowed abundantly and without warning; ever-present in my mind and in my heart; carrying me along this journey that has unimaginably fed my Soul ... and continues to do so.' Jenny wrote that upon completing her first CD 'Free to be Me' in 2007. Since then she has written a deluge of songs. Jenny describes motherhood, singing and songwriting as labors of love. She finds them to be challenging and rewarding and her self wanting to return each time. 'Each child, each song is special and unique. They tell stories and I'm continually fascinated with this entire process.' As a proud New Orleans native, music has played a monumental role in Jenny's life ever since she was a young girl. She believes this is a City that is truly incomparable and forever a part of her Heart and Soul. At the age of ten, Jenny was asked by a local artist to make a 'record' (back in the day!). Unfortunately however, due to contractural disagreements, Jenny has only a copy of the recording of that day, which she and her Family treasure. Her children love to hear their Mama sing when she was a little girl ! Jenny believes Life, God, the Universe, whatever you so choose, opens and closes doors for us for a reason. She feels the music was always inside of her. In February of 2006, six months after Hurricane Katrina, Jenny's family flew to New Orleans for a visit with family and friends still living there. It was during Mardi Gras and her first visit back since the hurric

Fillmore Slim has been playing the blues all his life and has become synonymous with the InchplayaInch lifestyle. He is one of the special lights of the blues world today combining humor, slang, street wisdom, blues idioms and solid songwriting into his special motif. The Legend of was recorded in Oakland and it brings all the power of Slim's writing and spoken magic to the front. The song InchHey Little BrotherInch examines the inner city youth/handgun epidemic from many different viewpoints. The combination of rap and blues is once again explored by Fillmore and his son Frank Sticks. This album's line-up includes Frank Goldwasser and Leonard Gil (bass and lead guitar), John Haines (drums), Bobby Webb (sax), Jimmy Pugh (keyboards) and Rick Estrin (harmonica).