Jenny Queen is tagged as: soft rock, female vocalists, ballads, blues, pop rock Ohio to Kentucky to London to New York to Sydney, Australia. Jet setter? Army brat? Nope, just a girl who follows her whims and lets the the world wash over her. What’s the musical result of this diversity? Her debut album, Girls Who Cry Need Cake. It’s a country-rolled, indie rock, heart-broken, heart-breaking down under and down home vibe. “Well that doesn’t explain it at all!” says Jenny Queen. “It’s more like this: I have always loved Gram Parsons and Lucinda Williams, but then in London I had a crush on Hope Sandoval - her voice is just hypnotic. When I lived in NYC I traipsed all over the Lower East Side, catching Elliot Smith at Brownies (Heatmiser shows) or watching Ryan Adams putting away the Pabst at Lakeside Lounge. They became huge musical influences. And in Australia, Kasey Chambers and lesser-known writers like the amazing Jason Walker have given me lyrical inspiration.” Jenny’s are songs that combine a youthful naivety with an almost world-weary sensibility, sung with a passion so rarely found these days, that magical sense that suggests the events portrayed happened a milli-second before the singer entered the studio to record. Musically the fit is just perfect with the voice. There’s no heavy-hande... Read More About Jenny Queen Biography...  Send Jenny Queen ringtones to your cell
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