Artists:Farrell Spence
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Farrell Spence is a Canadian folk-country singer and songwriter.
Her debut album, A Town Called Hell, was released in 2007. The album is a collection of Americana/Folk ballads and lullabies for the lost and lonely, delivered with ghostly, heart-wrenching beauty. Farrell's smoky, mournful vocalizations and guitar work continue a long-standing tradition of soulful Canadian balladry and guitar stylings inspired by The Cowboy Junkies and Neil Young. Her lyrics are poetic and honest, woven into songs which hit like a blast of deja-vu creating a haunting sensation that lingers in the listener long after the final chords have been struck.
Each track on A Town Called Hell is autobiographical, summoning the eccentric and tragic characters from Farrell's own past -- plunging into a sticky web of loves lost and found, this is a soundscape of secrets, triumphs and tragedies that is sure to hit hard for anyone who has ever been in love.
Spence is a woman driven by history and certainly has no shortage of inspiration to draw upon -- her mother was a celebrated Winnipeg folk singer, her grandfather a well-admired fiddler, her first boyfriend a bank robber, and her own father a gambler and grifter. These 10 songs are a gallery of tragic portraits: entwined lovers, aching hearts, hopeless drunks and hopeful n'er-do-wells... all sung from the perspective of a woman unafraid of days past.
Amidst a world of over-produced and heavily layered albums, Farrell Spence's debut album is an undeniable standout -- confident and emotional, shadowed but hopeful. Each lyric sung and every key struck is worth its weight in whiskey.
Notable tracks on the album are "Losing You Again", a track Farrell co-wrote with her mother, "Here's To You and Me", a poignant duet with Rob Bracken of Vancouver's Brickhouse, and a striking interpretation of 2005 Americana Award Winner Mary Gauthier's "I Drink". Johannes Grames of The Grames Brothers contributed electric guitar to the album. Lead singer of Vancouver blues super-group Brickhouse, Rob Bracken, recorded the closing duet on the album with Farrell, "Here's To You and Me", and also contributed harmonica on several tracks. And Ewan "Sudsy" Clark (Vancouver Fiddle Orchestra, Shenanigan) played fiddle on several of the tracks on the album.
In the summer of 2007 Farrell toured Ireland, the UK and Italy playing live to sold-out houses at each venue. She broke capacity records at The Blackbird in Ireland and also received the top entertainment choice for the weekend of August 31 in three major news papers in Rome. In Vancouver, she has performed at many venues including The Yale, The Railway Club and The Vancouver Art Gallery. In November 2007, she joined Trish Klein and Frazey Ford of The Be Good Tanyas and Simon Kendall of Doug and The Slugs on stage for a two hour Gospel show to benefit the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Two of Farrell's songs, written previous to A Town Called Hell, have been placed on "THE CHRIS ISAAK SHOW" and she can be heard on regular airplay on CBC Radio in Canada, RTE in Ireland, RAI in Italy and a myriad of college and independent radio stations in the USA and Canada.
Farrell currently resides in Ireland.
Farrell Spence's CDs are distributed by CD Baby in the USA. Her CDs can also be purchased on iTunes.
In the UK and EUROPE, publicity inquiries directed to:
G Promo PR UK/European Press & Radio Contact: Geraint Jones / Deb Jones Phone: + 44 (0) 1691 622356 Mobile: + 44 (0) 7855 724798 gpromo@btinternet.com
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| Farrell Spence on Wikipedia |
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