NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE!!! Is It a Shame?
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Jenny is a Boy is the project of singer/songwriter Adam A. Coppess. Born in a southern suburb of Indianapolis, he moved to Evansville, in southern Indiana, at the age of 16, where he eventually began playing guitar and writing songs under the name "Jenny," after the song on the Mountain Goats album "All Hail West Texas." His first album, titled "Jenny is a Boy," came out in the winter of '05, followed by a Midwest tour, a split with Blanketarms, and another full-length titled "Glad I Got a D in Basic Spanish". As Jenny developing an identity in the lo-fi singer-songwriter tradition, it came it about that since the project's first album was titled "Jenny is a Boy," people started to call the band by that name, and the change became official with the summer '06 with the re-release of "Glad I Got a D in Basic Spanish" under the official name "Jenny is a Boy." Adam moved to Bloomington IN in the fall of '06, strengthening ties with members of the music scene there whom he'd already worked with, such as Pattern Hungry Records and Bob Heavens Records. Over the next couple of years, Jenny is a Boy continued to develop its style - a pairing of earnest, personal, and occasionally funny lyrics with simple antifolk/punk acoustic guitar compositions - while touring the Midwest region multiple times, as well a venturing up to Maine and down to Florida, with bands such as Tinyfolk, Bad Ideas, Cool Conductor, and Boogdish, and recording a split with Life Under a Tree titled "Folkilla" and the full length "If I'm Still Alive." 2008 saw Adam teaming up with Bernard Kincius, Neil Cain, Dietrick Klooster, and Pete Wojcinski on rearranging older Jenny is a Boy songs for a full band project called The Proclamation, which released a self-titled album in September '08. This period also saw Jenny is a Boy adding Bernard Kincius as a second official band member on bass and experimenting with a blend of acoustic and electric on the EP "Self-Realizing" (May '08). The release in March '09 of a new full-length recorded and produced by Coppess, Kincius, and Klooster, signaled an exciting new direction for the band, venturing into higher recording quality and a full-bodied electric sound complete with drums. The album, "Is it a Shame?" features exciting contributions - Dietrick Klooster on trombone, Jimmy Brown of Bloomington's Dust from 1000 Years on Keys, and cover art by recognized artist Lauren Angel - and introduces Jenny is a Boy as a full band project.
Discography:
Hello, My Name is... CD EP on Offsides Records (Spring '05) OUT OF PRINT
Jenny is a Boy CD on Offsides Records (Dec '05) OUT OF PRINT,
One Small Fist featuring Jenny and Blanetarms (split CD LP) on Offsides Records (Spring '06)- OUT OF PRINT
I Hope That Kentucky Didn't Eat You (concept album) on Offsides Records (Summer '06)- OUT OF PRINT
I'm Glad I Got a D in Basic Spanish CD EP on Offsides Records and Popmonster Records (Summer '06)- OUT OF PRINT
Broken Things Make Beautifull Sounds On Peddling Tapes (Fall '06)
If I'm Still Alive CD on Popmonster Records (Fall '06) - $5ppd
Folkilla! (Jenny is a Boy/Life Under a Tree split) on PJ's Records - $5ppd and also on Bob Heavens Records w/ Stoner CD Stencil (Summer '07)
Folkilla (Split w/ Life Under a Tree)
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Self Realizing EP (Summer '08) - $5ppd
Self Realizing EP
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Is It a Shame? March '09 - $5ppd
Is It a Shame?
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Compilations:
We're Going to Make it Through This Year if it Kills Us comp on Offsides Records (2005) - OUT OF PRINT
SWFF 2007 Compilation
SWFF 2008 Compilation
You can get Jenny is a Boy CD's from me. Mail me at: Adam Coppess
339 S. Grant St. Apt. 3
Bloomington, IN 47401
For those of you who visited cllct.com. It is dead. I'm going to try to get some more of my old stuff on Bandcamp really soon. Until then you can download or at least listen to alot of it on last.fm
