Erin McKeown And Jill Sobule

Special twofer night--the quirky and highly prolific and talented Erin McKeown, and story-songteller par excellence Jill Sobule! Erin's latest project is a brand new full length album of original songs, due in the fall of 2009. Produced by Sam Kassirer and mixed by Brian Deck, Erin's latest will continue in her unique tradition of fresh and unusual music. And Jill has just released California Years, an homage to her adopted state, funded entirely by fan contributions!
"Airborne metaphors carry the songwriter Erin McKeown all the way through her fourth album, We Will Become Like Birds (Nettwerk). Her clear mezzo-soprano sounds perpetually optimistic, and so do the syncopated electric guitar parts she picks and plucks through the sparsely arranged but fully realized songs." - Jon Pareles, New York Times
"In several distinctive ways - voice, dynamic subtlety, and sheer songwriting ability - Erin McKeown is in a class of her own."- Sunday Times (UK)
"Jill Sobule can claim her place among the stellar New York singer-songwriters of the last decade. Topical, funny and more than a little poignant ... grown-up music for an adolescent age." - Jon Pareles, New York Times
"Sobule has a blade in one hand and flowers in the other... California Years finds the Denver-born, transplanted New Yorker celebrating her adopted West Coast with typical wit, grace, irony, sweetness, and satire."- All Music Guide
"Like her musical peers Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, Sobule delves into the pervasive sadness of living with a sense of humor that makes it all okay, even magnetic... she is a highly literate champion of the absurd." - PopMatters
"California Years is flirtatiously retro pop rock, full of mordant punch lines delivered cold... [Sobule is] older, but so much wiser." - Rolling Stone
"California Years is a triumphant success not only for Jill, but for the future of independent music." - Uncommon Music