Fred Eaglesmith and The Ginn Sisters

Attention all Fred heads!!!  One Night Only!!!

 

FRED EAGLESMITH NOMINATED FOR JUNO AWARD FOR TINDERBOX

Critically Heralded Album Up for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo

 

(Los Angeles) Acclaimed and award-winning singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith has been nominated for yet another honor in his distinguished nearly-four decade recording career:  a Juno Award — the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy — for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo for his 17th album, Tinderbox. The nomination is Eaglesmith's third time up for a prestigious Juno, which he won in 1997 in the same category for his album Drive-In Movie.

 

Tinderbox continues to garner critical praise since it was released in May of last year, and was cited on a number of year-end Top 10 lists. San Jose Metro recently hailed it as "one of the best albums of last year." And the Santa Barbara News Press just named it as "one of the more intriguing albums of the last year… with its hypnotic array of swampy grooves, obsessive refrains, hymns and hollers."

 

The CD has been described as an "alternative gospel" album, but Eaglesmith points out that "it's not a gospel record. This is actually tearing the whole thing [religion] apart and having a look at every bit of it. I was raised in a religious background and we weren't allowed to question. This album asks every question."

 

The Santa Barbara News Press says that Tinderbox sounds "like a field recording from the alternative world of rural Pentecostalism mixed with the artful theatricality and gruff timbres of Tom Waits." Metro describes it as "Something on the order of Eaglesmith jamming with Tom Waits on a 1930s chain gang full of bluesmen, it's spooky and dark, with a hint of the metaphysical."

 

Tinderbox has already been heralded as a "masterwork" (Philadelphia Inquirer), "exceptional" (Americana Roots), and "beautiful" (Ink 19). The New Yorker says, "Imagine a duet record from Tom Waits and Woody Guthrie," declaring, "if you're missing out on Eaglesmith… you're really missing out."

 

So don't miss Fred Eaglesmith along with the Ginn Sisters at Bj's Q Club and Sports Bar July 16 2009!!