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Jeanette Lee

"After a Dark Horse Year"

About Me

Watch for Jeanette Lee, an independent singer-songwriter from Toronto, Canada. Jeanette's second record, "After a Dark Horse Year", is a breezy acoustic EP, out September 2007. Her self-titled solo debut album was released in 2005. Tracks from both discs have been played on U.S. and Canadian conventional and internet radio.

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Member Since: 9/18/2006
Band Website: jeanettelee.ca
Band Members: 2004 to present: Tycho Manson, Chris Waller, Peter Stanley, Kevin Croucher, Todd Gemmill, Derek McKendrick, Tom Melville
Influences: Aimee Mann, Emmylou Harris, Neil Finn, Gillian Welch, Daniel Lanois, Ron Sexsmith, Emm Gryner, Matraca Berg, Eva Cassidy, The Violet Archers, The Band, Arlo Guthrie, Sarah McLachlan, Tom Petty, Yo-Yo Ma, Nouvelle Vague, rock, jazz, folk, ambient, so much great music and so little time.
Sounds Like: "After a Dark Horse Year" EP (2007) and "Jeanette Lee" (2005) are available at: CD Baby (cdbaby.com), Apple iTunes, eMusic and lots of other digital digs. See:http://cdbaby.com/cd/jeanettelee2
Record Label: Moondog Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Seven Days In July & A New Demo

I have just come off an enormously fun week of songwriting, learning from and meeting other songwriters and listening to all of their wonderful songs and stories (any of you who were there, thank you ...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:14:00 PST

Oot and Aboot: Random Thoughts and Barbers

OK. It's May in Toronto and still cold here, but at least I've been out to see a lot of great live music this year so there's something to show for it! It made me try to think of who I've seen play i...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:45:00 PST

Gigs coming up!

... as of April 24/08A few new gigs are coming up, hope you can make it!Smiling Buddha Bar (961 College St. W., Toronto)Friday, April 25/089:00 pm- Have band, will travel! Also on the bill are my frie...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:22:00 PST

Dining Room Experiments & Old Chestnuts

So. We've had record snowfalls in Toronto, I had a great time playing a gig on Friday with Alun Pigguns, we lost an hour this weekend, Leah McLaren is writing about how to look good naked, and it's Su...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:11:00 PST

Happy New Year (Are We There Yet?)

Sunday is a good MySpace witching day - just long and lazy enough to do some updating. Thankfully there is no new snow to shovel today = more time for sloth and working on new song demos... A certain...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:17:00 PST

Redemption Revisted - as of July 25/08

New demo of Redemption - posted July 25/08 (see the blog "Seven Days in July")New acoustic demo posted - May 25/08I was going through the detrius in my iTunes and found this live acoustic demo of Rede...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:58:00 PST

Early morning on the CBC

So I heard that the upcoming gig on Thursday June 14 was promo'd on CBC Metro Morning, on the Andy Barrie show. One of the new tracks got played. All v. cool, espcially since I love the Andy Barrie sh...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:50:00 PST

Honourable Mention in American Songwriter Lyric Contest

I'm happy to announce that the lyrics to my song "Belsize Park" won an Honourable Mention in the May/June 2007 Lyric Contest of American Songwriter Magazine. This is a very new song. So new it is nowh...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Thu, 03 May 2007 07:09:00 PST

Another Roadside Distraction

Two days after setting up on MySpace I find myself wondering - is this how it feels to have a Tamagotchi (sp?) egg? Just as I had begun weaning myself off of YouTube...
Posted by Jeanette Lee on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:32:00 PST