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Jennifer Warnes

 
Jennifer Warnes

Eight solo albums Ten hit movie themes 3 Best Song Oscars 4 Oscar nominations 2 Grammys More than 35 million records sold

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The Patriot's Dream (feat. Arlo Guthrie)

Quick Facts: Eight solo albums Ten hit movie themes 3 "Best Song" Oscars, 4 Oscar nominations 2 Grammys More than 35 million records sold With the release of her independently produced eleventh album, The Well, distributed worldwide by The Music Force, Jennifer Warnes delivers a remarkable collection of songs that call on the many styles-rhythm and blues, folk, country, and jazz-she's courted in the past. Her first solo album since 1992's critically acclaimed The Hunter will delight Jennifer's legion of fans as well as anyone who appreciates great music. With the rich musical tapestry of The Well, she has made choices that are as wide and varied as a person's moods-from the country blues of "It's Raining" to the Irish air of "Too Late Love Comes," Jennifer has chosen a diverse mixture of tunes that reflect her vast musical interests. The disc features players with whom Jennifer worked on her acclaimed Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen album, and offers a beautifully crafted recording that celebrates the influences of her diverse career and signals a new era of Jennifer Warnes music. "I've found much joy and inspiration as a producer," says Jennifer, who co-produced the disc with her friend, Emmy award-winning arranger/composer Martin Davich. "He created such a supportive environment that I was able to stretch a little more than usual. I've never had this much fun in the studio before; we laughed pretty much throughout the process. What a gift that was. Our combined musical vocabularies gave us much choice and possibility, and the result is an album that couldn't have been made with anyone else. It's accessible and complex; tender and strong. "In the past, the visions of so many artists have been hindered by the influence of corporate business," she says. "Our little project was privately funded; we own these masters, and we made the album we wanted to make. The absence of a record label was a great relief. I'm proud that the CD is being distributed by The Music Force-they share the same independent spirit and I'll know they'll get the music out to the fans. If there is to be a new musical renaissance, it will happen under these conditions of freedom, I'm certain." (As a strong supporter of artists rights, she recently spoke before an arbitration board at the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill where she defended the professional musician's and singer's right to performance royalties.) The Well includes four of Jennifer's own compositions, among them the uplifting title song, inspired by a visit to Wimberley, Texas's Jacob's Well with friend and fellow musician Doyle Bramhall, with whom she co-wrote the song. "The Well" opens and closes the album with a message of hope in its refrain, "We can make it, I know we can," and contains a magnificent lyrical run-on that goes, "See the curls of smoke rising up to the big old sky as the moonlight falls down over those distant hills." "Doyle's album stayed on my turntable for a year," Jennifer says. "His grooves were so deep, and I went to him to learn about that-the way he ignited Stevie Ray Vaughn and so many others. He inspired me completely. His powerful musical medicine runs in the family; his son, Doyle Bramhall the 2nd, will inherit Eric Clapton's position one day. I'm honored to have such players on this CD." Other Jennifer compositions include the hauntingly beautiful "Prairie Melancholy," a stunning homage to lost love, has been singled out by fans as an early favorite, as has the darkly visionary "The Panther." The Well also gathers beautifully evocative tunes by friends and colleagues whose work Jennifer admires, and whose songs she's made her own. When she inhabits Tom Waits's smoky "Invitation to the Blues" or considers Billy Joel's vulnerable "And So It Goes," they're suddenly more profound, more moving than the originals. And those who've come to love Jennifer's Oscar-winning way with a duet will be delighted by her fresh take on the romantic standard "You Don't Know Me," which she sings with Doyle Bramhall, and by Arlo Guthrie's guest appearance on his own "Patriot's Dream." Television and radio stations across the country have selected that song as an anthem of hope following the terrorist attacks on America this past September. "Sometime last year, I had an inner sense that our country needed a gathering song," Jennifer says. "I was looking for a dignified, unsentimental song for America, like Woody Guthrie's 'This Land is Your Land'." Jennifer's musical intuition about the need for a comforting "gathering song" was proved right, and Arlo Guthrie's prescient message has provided welcome comfort to a wounded nation. Mixed by some of the industry's best-known engineers, including George Massenburg, Frank Wolf, and Elliot Scheiner, The Well features a stellar group of musicians and singers. Co-producer Martin Davich is featured on keys, alongside Doyle Bramhall and Doyle Bramhall II, Abraham Laboriel, Vinnie Colaiuta, Van Dyke Parks, Blondie Chaplin, Eric Rigler, Max Carl, Denny Freeman, Rick Cunha, and Leland Sklar. These celebrated session men assist Jennifer in beautifully blurring the lines between musical genres, and help create the deeply musical diversity of The Well-a refreshing and longed-for return that's a tribute to the timeless quality of Jennifer Warnes's music. Jennifer has a flawless voice and has sold over 35 million records. She has recorded three Oscar winning film themes, (among them "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman and "[I've Had] The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing), has earned two Grammy Awards and has had handfuls of pop chart hits (including "Right Time of the Night" and "I Know a Heartache When I See One"). Jennifer's music is equally at home on theater stages (she originated the role of Sheila in the debut LA production of Hair), she's sung in Seminole, Spanish, French, Latin, German, and Hawaiian and written songs that have been covered by Bette Midler, Anne Murray, Aaron Neville, and Linda Ronstadt. She's produced albums that are cherished by audiophiles, and remains among the most sought-after guest vocalists in the industry, appearing on recordings by everyone from Bob Dylan to Roy Orbison, James Taylor to Harry Belafonte. Leonard Cohen may have put it best when he said, "Her voice is like the California weather, filled with sunlight. But there's an earthquake behind it."
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