21-01-2012, 13:25
online listen
pretty mellow for the most part
beautiful voice
nothing I didn't like
included clip can be a love
makes the list
1.8 from me and not yet rated by the pros at allmusic
from the album - Holiday
Jessie Baylin - Holiday - YouTube
released Jan 17th 2012
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Bio - from allmusic
New Jersey native Jessie Baylin began plotting her songwriting career at an early age, penning poems while still in
elementary school and -- at the ripe age of 13 -- singing for customers at the Fire Sight Inn, a local jazz bar
that her parents owned. Although moved by the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Barbra Streisand, Baylin
didn't compose her own songs until several years later, when she relocated to California after graduating from high
school. She then settled in Los Angeles and honed her songwriting skills in private, eventually emerging with a
batch of demos that mixed her jazz, country, and pop/rock influences.
After generating label interest through her demo tapes and a residency at the Los Angeles club The Mint (as well as
recurring gigs at the Hotel Café, which paired Baylin with a number of other emerging songwriters), the singer
signed with the Verve Forecast label and released her debut effort, Firesight, in 2008. She also became engaged to
Nathan Followill, the drummer for Kings of Leon, and resettled in Nashville with her fiancé. The two married one
year later.
Album Review - from louisville courier-journal
Jessie Baylin is a Nashville singer-songwriter via Los Angeles and New Jersey, her home, but doesnât sound like
sheâs from any of them. Baylin instead seems to live in an alternate universe where AM radio still rules and people
made pop records that unabashedly courted a broad, if not especially diverse, audience.
With gorgeous string arrangements from 1960s guru Jimmie âBridge Over Troubled Waterâ Haskell and background vocals
from Louisvilleâs Watson Twins that echo everything from Motown to the Brill Building, âLittle Sparkâ is a retro
power glide that only intermittently references the present. Youâll usually be thinking Dusty Springfield, Petula
Clark and Skeeter Davis, a nice little triptych.
Baylinâs dusky voice conveys both hope and resignation, go-to emotions for these kind of songs, and when she
reaches into her upper register, youâre never sure if sheâll be laughing or crying. Sometimes the arrangements turn
into affectations, but the strength of the melodies and Baylinâs singing keep most songs firmly pointed at a place
where classic pop never grows old.
Track Listing
1. Hurry Hurry
2. Love Is Wasted on Lovers
3. The Greatest Thing That Never Happened
4. I Feel That Too
5. Star Cannon
6. Yuma
7. Holiday
8. Dancer
9. The Winds
10. Joy Is Suspicious
11. Little Spark
pretty mellow for the most part
beautiful voice
nothing I didn't like
included clip can be a love
makes the list
1.8 from me and not yet rated by the pros at allmusic
from the album - Holiday
Jessie Baylin - Holiday - YouTube
released Jan 17th 2012
Bio - from allmusic
New Jersey native Jessie Baylin began plotting her songwriting career at an early age, penning poems while still in
elementary school and -- at the ripe age of 13 -- singing for customers at the Fire Sight Inn, a local jazz bar
that her parents owned. Although moved by the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Barbra Streisand, Baylin
didn't compose her own songs until several years later, when she relocated to California after graduating from high
school. She then settled in Los Angeles and honed her songwriting skills in private, eventually emerging with a
batch of demos that mixed her jazz, country, and pop/rock influences.
After generating label interest through her demo tapes and a residency at the Los Angeles club The Mint (as well as
recurring gigs at the Hotel Café, which paired Baylin with a number of other emerging songwriters), the singer
signed with the Verve Forecast label and released her debut effort, Firesight, in 2008. She also became engaged to
Nathan Followill, the drummer for Kings of Leon, and resettled in Nashville with her fiancé. The two married one
year later.
Album Review - from louisville courier-journal
Jessie Baylin is a Nashville singer-songwriter via Los Angeles and New Jersey, her home, but doesnât sound like
sheâs from any of them. Baylin instead seems to live in an alternate universe where AM radio still rules and people
made pop records that unabashedly courted a broad, if not especially diverse, audience.
With gorgeous string arrangements from 1960s guru Jimmie âBridge Over Troubled Waterâ Haskell and background vocals
from Louisvilleâs Watson Twins that echo everything from Motown to the Brill Building, âLittle Sparkâ is a retro
power glide that only intermittently references the present. Youâll usually be thinking Dusty Springfield, Petula
Clark and Skeeter Davis, a nice little triptych.
Baylinâs dusky voice conveys both hope and resignation, go-to emotions for these kind of songs, and when she
reaches into her upper register, youâre never sure if sheâll be laughing or crying. Sometimes the arrangements turn
into affectations, but the strength of the melodies and Baylinâs singing keep most songs firmly pointed at a place
where classic pop never grows old.
Track Listing
1. Hurry Hurry
2. Love Is Wasted on Lovers
3. The Greatest Thing That Never Happened
4. I Feel That Too
5. Star Cannon
6. Yuma
7. Holiday
8. Dancer
9. The Winds
10. Joy Is Suspicious
11. Little Spark
