Eden Brent
  • Everybody Already Knows
  • Better This Way
  • Someone to Love
  • Later Than You Think
  • Leave Me Alone
  • He'll Do the Same Thing to You
  • Meet You Anywhere
  • Everybody Already Knows
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (04:11) [9.89 MB]
  • Better This Way
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (04:11) [9.91 MB]
  • Someone to Love
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:15) [7.64 MB]
  • Later Than You Think
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:34) [8.34 MB]
  • Leave Me Alone
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:51) [8.99 MB]
  • He'll Do the Same Thing to You
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:58) [9.37 MB]
  • Meet You Anywhere
    Genre: Blues
    MP3 (03:25) [8.09 MB]
Biography
Eden Brent's piano playing and singing style ranges from a melancholic whisper to a full-blown juke joint holler. She's simultaneously confident and confiding, ably blending an earthy meld of jazz, blues, soul, and pop as she huskily invites listeners into her lazy, lush world.

That world lies just north of Greenville, Mississippi on the two-lane Highway 1, which follows the twists and turns of the river through fecund swampland, time-forgotten plantations, and blink-and-you'll-miss-'em communities like Rosedale, Beulah, and Stovall before it dead ends into Highway 61 just south of Onward.

It was there that Brent was able to develop her gutsy vocal-and-piano chops via family sing-a-longs and a 16-year apprenticeship with the late blues pioneer Boogaloo Ames, who ultimately dubbed his protégé "Little Boogaloo."

"Music school taught me to think, but Boogaloo taught me to boogie-woogie," says Brent, who appeared alongside her mentor in the 1999 PBS documentary Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound and in the 2002 South African production Forty Days in the Delta.

Where most 21st century roots musicians merely emulate their heroes, Brent and Ames were both "soul mate and road buddies," says lifelong friend (and acclaimed journalist) Julia Reed. "She was a young white woman of privilege and he was an aging black man in the Mississippi Delta, but theirs is a phenomenal story of mutual admiration and need."

Yet much more than the blues flows through Brent's talented hands: Critics laud her "Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin" attitude, compare her to jazz/pop dynamos Norah Jones and Sarah Vaughn, and wax effusively about her "whiskey-smoke" voice, which serves as a constant reminder that Greenville, nestled into a bend of the Mississippi River, is located a few hundred miles north of New Orleans.

Whether booked as a solo artist or bandleader, Brent's performance is fresh and spontaneous, often filled with audience requests and participation. Her unshakable talent and her carefree demeanor have taken her across the country and around the world, but the 2009 Blues Music Awards cemented Eden's place as one of the fresh voices propelling this vital American music forward. She was nominated in four categories, winning both "Acoustic Album of the Year" and "Acoustic Artist of the Year" honors (joining Buddy Guy, B.B. King, and Janiva Magness as the only multi-category winners for the year). As Chip Eagle, publisher of Blues Revue, BluesWax, and Dirty Linen says, "in Eden's huge playing and singing you can hear the ghosts of Mississippi in a duet with the future of the blues."

Other Albums for Yellow Dog Records on Airplay Direct:
http://www.airplaydirect.com/yellowdogrecords

Individual Albums for Eden Brent on Airplay Direct:

YDR 2116 Eden Brent Jigsaw Heart
http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/edenbrent2116

YDR 1716 Eden Brent Ain't Got No Troubles http://airplaydirect.com/edenbrent1716

YDR 1616 Eden Brent Mississippi Number One http://airplaydirect.com/edenbrent1616
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    Described by one critic as “Bessie Smith meets Diana Krall meets Janis Joplin,” Eden Brent is a masterful blues & boogie pianist and vocal stylist who combines elements of blues, jazz, soul, gospel and pop.
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    05/31/11
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