Jill Andrews
Jill Andrews • It starts with the voice. Before you notice the words, before you detect the gently curling melodies tugging them along, this is what hits you first: It’s warm and rich and touched with a soft Southern twang, as likely to swing down into its earthy lower register as arch upwards into a hopeful trill; it’s steady and sure but flecked with a certain weary sadness that stops you dead, draws you near. It’s beautiful. It knows something.
This voice is Jill Andrews, who’s been singing her whole life: as a little girl, as a camp counselor plucking out three chords on an acoustic guitar under swaying pine trees, as one-half of The Everybodyfields—and, since 2009, as an increasingly formidable singer/songwriter making her way on her own.
On her self-titled EP (2009) and her debut record (coming in early 2011), Andrews crafts beguiling, startlingly intimate songs that merge her voice with her effortless, classic-pop sensibility and keen eye for human drama—all the unspoken truths between lovers, devastating confessions whispered to friends, silent prayers offered up during the longest, loneliest nights. A smart, subtle tunesmith and a gently wise songwriter, Andrews’ songs shuffle in and settle down with little fanfare, then quietly go about the business of ripping your heart straight out of your chest.
A rock-solid frontwoman in sundresses and Frye boots, Andrews leads a full band on record and on stage, drawing in tender piano, shuffling drums and searing electric guitar to support her careful acoustic picking. Wherever she plays, she offers up a vision of herself as a singular, quickly-maturing artist with the power to cross lines of genre and geography, taste and time. She is a force—and a voice—to be reckoned with.
VIDEOS
Jill Andrews "Lonely Anywhere"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlnkV8eHag
Jill Andrews "I’ll Stay"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E78Jmt233vo
Jill Andrews "Sweetest in the Morning" live at Paste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNAgzAklNxM
Jill Andrews "Another Man" live at Paste
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xi9ZZYVIRQ
LINKS
FaceBook • www.facebook.com/jillandrewsmusic
Events on FaceBook • www.facebook.com/jillandrewsmusic?sk=events
Mailing List • www.tinyurl.com/3je8qaa
Booking • www.projectdaybreak.com/jillandrews/bio
SonicBids • www.artistdata.sonicbids.com/jill-andrews
Store • www.jillandrews.bigcartel.com/
Contact • www.projectdaybreak.com/jill-andrews.html
Tickets • www.projectdaybreak.com/jillandrews/tour
WebSite • www.jillandrews.com
WebSite • www.theeverybodyfields.com
Teaching • www.theparlorknoxville.com/music/content/jill-andrews
ReverbNation • www.reverbnation.com/jillandrews
Twitter • www.twitter.com/jillandrews
News/Blog • www.projectdaybreak.com/jillandrews/
YouTube • www.youtube.com/jillandrewsmusic
iTunes • www.itunes.apple.com/us/artist/jill-andrews/id288796460
CDBaby • www.cdbaby.com/Artist/JillAndrews
Amazon • www.amazon.com/Jill-Andrews-EP/dp/B003ELJY2W
MySpace • www.myspace.com/jillandrewsmusic
WikiPedia • www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Everybodyfields
ARTICLES
Voices • Craig Havighurst
www.musiccityroots.com/voices
Jill Andrews On Mountain Stage
www.npr.org/2011/05/04/135984593/jill-andrews-on-mountain-stage
Jill Andrews will head out on a month long North American Tour
www.zoiksonline.com/2011/04/jill-andrews-announces-summer-tour-with.html
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