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Jess Klein "Travelin' Woman"

musicfog.com Jess Klein during SXSW 2010, on the Music Fog stage at Threadgill's south in Austin, TX. (3

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Jess Klein "Wilson Street Serenade"

musicfog.com Jess Klein comes to the Music Fog ranch house studio at the 2011 Cherokee Creek Music Festival.

Jess Klein: Soda Water Play Video

Jess Klein: Soda Water

Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, musician, Jess Klein, brings her emotionally intimate lyrics and soulful, passionate voice to MiND Studios to discuss and perform her sultry song, "Soda Water". With its sexy...

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jess klein - strawberry lover

Americana folk singer songwriter Jess Klein live @ The Tunnels Aberdeen, Scotland performing "Strawberry Lover".

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JESS KLEIN

www.balconytv.ie BALCONYTV DUBLIN 28 PRESENTED BY TOM MILLETT A folk troubadour whose talents have been lauded on the national and international scene for almost a decade, Jess Klein writes songs that tell the story...

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Jess Klein Biography

Jess Klein (born in 1974 in Rochester, New York) is an American singer/songwriter. A native of Rochester, NY, Klein picked up the acoustic guitar and started writing songs while living in Kingston, Jamaica in her late teens. On a whim, she auditioned for a guest slot at a local weekly dub poetry and music session. Upon hearing the first song Klein had written, the host Lady Elean Thomas declared "She have soul, mon." Klein returned home, moved to Boston, and began performing locally. After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, she was signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard. Her first release for Ryko, Draw Them Near [which received 3 1/2 out of four stars from USA Today], launched Klein on a worldwide tour where she performed before 70,000 attendees at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Returning to the U.S., Klein joined the songwriter collective Voices on the Verge, along with Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, and Beth Amsel. The foursome performed Klein's song 'Little White Dove' on Good Morning America. Klein's second solo effort for Ryko, Strawberry Lover, produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely, debuted as the number 1 most added album at triple A radio a week before its release, was given four stars by MOJO, and received a plug from the nearly 80 million readership Parade. In 2005, Nerdcore Rapper MC Frontalot posted on his website a rap breakdown using the beat from the Jess Klein song "Soda Water." Klein's sixth album, City Garden [Five Stars, MOJO Magazine] caused the Boston Globe to describe her as "Quite simply one of the most gifted performers this area has produced."

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Jess Klein Discography

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  • Draw Them Near - 22/08/2000 (Slow River/US)

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