Elizabeth Cotten is my new special discovery. I want to be just like her when I grow up.

This song, written by her and sung by her granddaughter. Special, brings a wee tear to my geeky eye.



You can read all about the lovely lady here

And with that, I go to sleep.

Night all
x
Jenny

Lindfors goes electric. Just don't throw shit. For those of you curious about Chris's band, please check this - www.myspace.com/antibalas

Or this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTtnPXbCoQg

I've stuck up the first installment of the studio diary on the Myspace, stay tuned for more... or watch it here.

Wise words from Sufi Rumi...

x
Jen

Each Note

Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across

An intellectual doesn't know
what the drunk is feeling

Don't try to figure out
what those lost inside love
will do next!

Someone in charge would give up all his power,
if he caught one whiff of the wine-musk
from the room where the lovers
are doing who-knows-what!

One of them tries to dig a hole through a mountain.
One flees from academic honours.
One laughs at famous moustaches!

Life freezes if it doesn't get a taste
of this almond cake.

The stars come up spinning
every night, bewildered in love.

They'd grow tired
with that revolving, if they weren't.

They'd say
"How long do I have to do this!"

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.

Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.
I'll show you how it's enough.

Go up on the roof at night
in this city of the soul.

Let everyone climb on their roofs
and sing their notes!

Sing loud!

- Rumi, sometime in the 1200's.

Pleased to report that the eyelids of Jennylindfors.com did flutter this morning. She looked around the room, and then huskily said "what the fuck was that all about?".

What the fuck was that all about? Suspended, then not suspended... did I offend someone? Anyway, Jennylindfors.com is working again. For now. Keep her lit.

I'll keep the swearing to a minimum from now on Big Brother.

Ya bollix.

X

In the meantime, here is where you will find info on gigs and recordings and all the goings on in the world of the Lindfors.

Hope you're all well.

Love
The Jenben

Hello friends,
After a year of catching my breath in London and after two weeks of mindblowing inspiration in New Orleans I am ready to start this difficult second album.

I've uploaded two demos. 'The blazing sun' and 'Weaving through the ground' as a taster for the next album, which is being started on this summer. Who knows when it'll be done! It'll be done when it's done I suppose. It's being recorded in a converted warehouse on the Thames, which is mainly used as a classical music rehearsal space and recording studio. A nice location, feels like home and it floods with natural light all summer long.

You can track the progress in the diary section of www.jennylindfors.com

Also now up is a Youtube channel of various bits and bobs, www.youtube.com/jennylindforsmusic

There you'll find footage of the last album being made, footage of the new album being made, and some of my escapades in London in New Orleans.

Wish me luck, I'll do my best to make it my best for ya.

Lots of love

Jenny
xx

Wallowing in a hazy Sunday morning charm, WHEN THE NIGHT TIMECOMES is an album that exudes class and style; Irishsinger/songwriter Jenny Lindfors fast emerging as a talent you'llimmediately warm to.  As both a talented singer andsongwriter, Jenny Lindfors writes and sings the kind of songs to melt your heart.

Opener here NIGHT TIME subtly straddles bluesgrass country, folk and smooth pop, Lindfors crooning delicately over rustic guitar licks whilst on VOODOO she delivers dark nursery rhyme melodiesagainst similarly themed musical tricks.

WHEN THE NIGHT TIME COMES is a record that works in elements ofsugar coated pop, warm soul and 70s style singer/songwriter moves amidst its country and folk nuances, I DON'T REALLY WANT YOU HERE,a song that successfully marries elements of Joni Mitchell, CaroleKing and Crosby, Stills And Nash.

2 X 1 is a sweetly delivered pop moment that delivers sundrenched atmospherics whilst on the more melancholy, sombre LOVESTAGE, Jenny Lindfors reveals a more intense side to hersongwriting prowess; a stark song that drips with dark beauty and subdued emotion.

BY THE WAYSIDE features a more textured, richly woven musical base where spidery beats dance intricately against splintering guitar work and insistent bass rumbles.

FEARFUL THINGS returns to simpler musical themes, a gentle piano led tune that proves Jenny Lindfors is someone capable ofmesmerising with the barest minimum of tricks or effects. Elsewhere. TIMEWARP and PLAY IT AWAY are further examples of classy, timeless pop songwriting and closing number LIGHT UP, agentle climax that ends things in suitably gorgeous sounding style.

An impressive and satisfying record, WHEN THE NIGHT TIME COMES finds Jenny Lindfors edging her way towards becoming a household name.  Deliciously stylish pop that straddles the worlds of folk, country and the blues, WHEN THE NIGHT TIME COMES is an album that holds your attention throughout; truly special and sublime stuff.

UKMusicReview.com

'It’s a great Irish compliment to go, 'I thought you’d be dreadful but you’re actually alright'. It’s really good to smash your ego, but after a while it cripples your self-esteem.'

'When I heard it, I just thought what the fuck is that?' That was Neil Young, and this is Jenny Lindfors recalling her route to professional musicianship. From penning nursery rhymes – 'Mirror,mirror on the wall, it aint big and it aint small' - at the tender age of six through the 'seriously depressing adolescent horrible songs' at 12, she now has folksy debut album 'When The Night Time Comes' to her name.


It was discovering Young that made Lindfors teach herself how to play the guitar and decide there was nothing else sheever wanted to do but music. But the Dublin-bred singer-songwriter has found herself in the Big Smoke to forge a career after reluctantly leaving home. 'I got sick of being called a whingy hippy, so I thought maybe it was time to go,' she claims. 'There was a huge singer-songwriter scene for about eight years and then everybody just wants them dead. It’s easy to pick up a guitar and bang out a few chords and a lot of singer-songwriters in Ireland were incredibly depressing. Without people hearing your music, they see a press shot of you and just go, 'fuck off’.' So she did.


Early reactions to 'When The Night Time Comes'were also prejudice, claims Lindfors. 'All the journalists in Ireland started going on about this late 60s, early 70s Laurel Canyon west coast California vibe, which was never my intention to market it that way,' she says. 'Now I look back on it and say, of course they thought that. The inlay of the album is just my skirt with all my shit thrown all over it, the idea for the artwork came from a drunken snapshot of me having a jam at my friend’s house, and to the outside world, yeah, we’re probably a bunch of djembe-banging hippies. If you don’t want to look beyond it, there’s nothing I can do about it.'


Lindfors says she has made the record she should have at this point in time.What started out as a college project with old friend Ben was an'effortless' two-year process. 'Away we went, drinking wine in a little granny flat by the sea,' she explains. 'No intentions, no agenda, justfor the sheer love of doing it. The album came together like that.'With minimal instrumentation and production she didn’t really indulge herself either – well not too much. 'I think if you, as a human being,have the desire to get up on an elevated platform and amplify yourselfover a room of people and expect them to shut up and listen, that’sself-indulgent,' she says. 'So I’m completely self-indulgent, but within reason that’s every artist.'


'When The Night Time Comes' is out now on Flock

By Jennifer Palmer-Violet