NEW RELEASE OF THE WEEK: EILEN JEWELL ‘QUEEN OF THE MINOR KEY’

The story behind the record ‘Queen of the Minor Key‘ goes something like this: Eilen Jewell had writer’s block, so she retreated to a cabin without electricity and running water in the mountains of Idaho. The Boston resident Jewell originally hailed from the land of Famous Potatoes, but instead of digging up tubers, she found gold from a previous decade of American life. This might not make sense, but who cares?

The album is definitely cool, whether Jewell’s channeling Patsy Cline on the torch song “Only One” or getting all hopped up as on the rhythm and blues honker “Bang Bang Bang”. Jewell also has a sense of humor. On the aforementioned song, she describes cupid as a sinister seraph who doesn’t take aim with a bow and arrow but just shoots his sawed off six-gauge shotgun and blindly blasts love into a crowd of people. “It’s funny until it happens to you”, she warns, “because love is careless, random, and cruel”. Just thinking about love this way makes a person thirsty. Here, have some “Kalimotxo”. – Pop Matters

POSTED BY:RECORDEXCHANGE ON JUNE 28, 2011 AT 12:58 PM

Eilen Jewell is performing LIVE @Bridge Street Live on August 20th @ 8pm. Tickets are on sale now.