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Erin McKeown

SING YOU SINNERS!

About Me


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From elegant pop to balls-out rock,
sweet electronics to witty swing,
Erin McKeown has packed a ton of music into her young career. With 5 albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks and compilations to her credit, the 29-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hasn't stopped for a breather in the last 10 years. Along the way she has averaged 200 shows a year and garnered the praise of fans and critics alike. McKeown's newest release is Lafayette, a rollicking evening with her six-piece Little Big Band.
"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
"Her operative mood is effortless grace." - LA Weekly
"Her playing is so muscular, her arrangements so well conceived that she succeeds brilliantly. As with all truly great guitarists, the wonder is less in her chops than her choices."- Boston Globe
"In several distinctive ways - voice, dynamic subtlety, and sheer songwriting ability - Erin McKeown is in a class of her own."- Sunday Times (UK)


buy SING YOU SINNERS at:
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Nettwerk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/31/2005
Band Website: erinmckeown.com
Band Members: the TRiO is: e. mckeown- guitars, keyboards and throat + a rotating cast of incredible singing drummers and electronic keyboard artists... fast and fierce. currently allison miller on drums and todd sickafoose on bass, most days
Influences: HOW ABOUT THIS:

i devour culture: movies, plays, books, music, ART ART ART. i can't live without it... the one specific thing i will say is that i do not own a TV and havent for some-time. i am proud of this... i am not saying i dont WATCH TV, because i do... i just dont OWN one. i make special trips out to see what's important to me (six feet under, the red sox world championship ring ceremony)



AND HOW ABOUT THIS:

public emily is my bad-ass manager
mary brabec is my fantastico agent

check out my new album here
sam kassirer played piano on it!
todd sickafoose played bass!
allison miller played drums!

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the biggest blog ever, parto duo

we kicked it up the west coast, meeting up with sam kassirer and saying goodbye to art, but not before a double keyboard extravaganza in seattle that also featured the lovely saxophonist jessica lurie...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:20:00 PST

the biggest blog ever, parto uno

ok, myspacers, so maybe it wont be the biggest blog ever... but i do have 5 months to catch you up on. and ... whew...  what a 5 months. first off, today i am in homer AK, which is the 21st state...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:09:00 PST

the biggest blog ever, finale

where are we now? it's all starting to run together. oh right! by now it was the first week of april and i was back home for a couple weeks... well, not quite because i mixed a record and taught a cla...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 14 May 2007 11:27:00 PST

it's like your birthday, only bigger, but smaller...

i remember the day each of my records came out like i would remember my babies' birthdays, if i had any babies... june 13th, 1998, for monday morning cold. october 10th, 2000, for distill...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:14:00 PST

title track on the way!

hey myspacers... we're having a little trouble getting the player to upload the promised title track from my new record ("sing you sinners"!)...   hang in there... hopefully we'll have it up...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:46:00 PST

your words in someone else's hands

myspacers! several weeks ago my friend lori mckenna asked me to be a part of a special night at club passim in harvard square, boston... lori, whom i have know for almost 10 years (!), was planning a...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:08:00 PST

the long hot summer

myspacers. can you forgive me for so long in absence? march, april, may, june and july, i was gone. left you hanging. to surf other profiles, to read other blogs. truth be told, i had become a little ...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:37:00 PST

finding mothers everywhere

i keep having dreams that a tree will fall onto my house, through the roof of the studio section. i live in an old cottage from the 1800's, my porch hangs over the river, parts of the floors dip in st...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:13:00 PST

the great wide open

i am home. temporarily in a temporary home, but home nonetheless. literally, figuratively, the year is done and so am i. i've just gotten back from a 2 month stretch where i was in my house for a gran...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:53:00 PST

the ladies who rock (part two from the stage)

funny that last time i wrote, i didnt think i had anything to write about, and now i feel like i have a whole world of things discuss- funny how 10 days can be so full. funny. we're in the UK right no...
Posted by Erin McKeown on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:52:00 PST