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As the reigning Queen of the Minor Key, Jewell leads a tight quartet that blends influences of surf-noir, early blues, classic country, folk, and 1960s era rock 'n' roll. For well over a decade, they've toured relentlessly for legions of fans from Boston to Boise and Madrid to Melbourne, playing large festivals, theatres, rock clubs, and coffeehouses. The group has shared stages with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, and Blind Boys of Alabama. Eilen's fans have marvelled at her warmth and onstage humour alongside her beautiful songs and fiery performances. In addition to six of her own full-length albums, Jewell has released two albums with her country-gospel side-project, the Sacred Shakers; a tribute album to Loretta Lynn titled 'Butcher Holler'; and a recent album of rare blues covers, 'Down Hearted Blues'.

American Songwriter magazine describes the Bose, Idaho native Eilen Jewell as one of America's most intriguing, creative and idiosyncratic voices. That singular voice springs forth from a woman of more than one mind, and she taps into many of them on 'Gypsy', her latest album released on Signature Sounds. By turns personal and political, pissed off and blissed out, Jewell's first album of original material since 2015 expands brief moments of joy into lifetimes, and distils epic sentiments and persistent doubts into succinct songs. Yet rather than pulling artist and listener this way and that, the tensions within and between these 12 tracks propel her eighth studio album forward as a remarkably cohesive full-length.

At the core of Jewell's eighth studio album is a set of self-penned cosmic-country songs on which the singer addresses both the personal and the political, her smoky voice and back in band in killer form throughout. Mojo

Inspired by modern-day sexism and inequality, 79 Cents (The Meow Song) blends satire with scathing indictments. The song's mix of gypsy jazz and old-timey folk music goes down easy, but it's Jewell's clever writing particularly her final verse, where she references President Trump's comments about grabbing women's genitals that delivers the knockout blow, adding substance to a song that's also rich in old-world style. Rolling Stone Country

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