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A tin lily is just what it says—and much more than it seems. A thin piece of metal shaped in the petals of a delicate flower, it's designed to take a soft glow, often from a candle, and give it more shine. It's a hard element that does what it can to spread something as ethereal yet as essential as light.
Jeff Black's songs do much the same thing. They start in a personal place, often hidden back in the darkness, yet they always strive to illuminate. He's a burly, bare-knuckled, blue-collar son of the Missouri plains with dark Irish blood who digs into tough topics with a gentle heart. There's nothing predictable about a Jeff Black lyric other than it will be sung robustly and it will head towards hope instead of dwell on despair.
Black's fourth album, Tin Lily, is as hard to pin down as his previous work, where he has collaborated with everyone from rock experimentalists Wilco to Americana favorite Iris Dement to progressive bluegrass stalwart Sam Bush. As usual, Black found an inspired collection of musicians to collaborate with him on the self produced Tin Lily.
Mandolinist Sam Bush, who's last album was named after his cover of Black's song "King of the World," joins former Johnny Cash bassist Dave Roe, former Steve Earle drummer Craig Wright and guitarists Will Kimbrough, who's currently working with Rodney Crowell and Jimmy Buffett, and Kenny Vaughan, who performs with the likes of Kim Richey and Lucinda Williams among so many others. Engineered and mixed by Billy Sherrill, the song cycle on Tin Lily exemplifies the duality that make Jeff Black such a compelling, vital and important performing songwriter.
"Black is an artist of substance," wrote Billboard in a review that compared his piano ballads to Randy Newman and his rockers to Bruce Springsteen. Paste magazine adds, "The search for spiritual sustenance and lasting meaning underpins Black's reverent, battling-the-darkness-andwinning songs."Image Of Band He concedes that, while he doesn't want to offer in-depth explanations of what his songs mean, "I love songs about freeing the spirit, about minimizing the struggle the best you can, about treating your individuality as something that's precious and important," he says. "Those are the topics I come back to because those are the ideas I keep examining within myself." But Black is too complicated to make it easy. His songs take unexpected turns, cursing and snarling at points, showing their lust and their desire as well as their determination to remain bound for glory.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Jeff now lives in Nashville, TN.
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Bastard | B-Sides And Confessions Volume One | 4:57 | 38 |  18 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Piano / Acoustic / Solo vocalist / Band / Way slow | Sunday Best | B-Sides And Confessions Volume One | 5:07 | 55 | 26 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Band / Piano / Mellow / Pretty / Sunday / Acoustic / Solo vocalist / Jim's double favorite | Higher Ground | B-Sides And Confessions Volume One | 6:25 | 46 | 15 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Acoustic guitar / Piano / Drums / Band / Mellow |
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- Spotlighted: Tuesday, July 13th 2004
- Songs on WWR: 10
- Total plays: 384
- Total requests: 228
- Total listens: 10338
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