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"Gypsy" is the eighth full-length release for the Idaho-based singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell, released August 16th, 2019 on the Signature label, the album was produced with her husband Jason Beek (who also played drums on the album).
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On Eilen Jewell's latest release, Gypsy, she musically wanders all over the Americana map. Sometimes she travels down the Kitty Wells/Loretta Lynn honky-tonk highway. On other songs, she snakes over a more rockabilly beat or a Western movie soundtrack cadence. And there are other sui generis cuts when she does things like use psychedelic steel guitar and fiddle sounds to open a track or sing over a polished brass accompaniment. Drumbeats can propel her forward on one cut and then disappear as she drifts nomadically on the next.
Jewell sings songs of heartbreak and those of joy, of personal obsessions and others of public concerns. The important point is that her roving presence is ever-present. She may be a gypsy, but she's not lost. Jewell understands the journey itself is the destination of life.
Reviewed by Steve Horowitz for popmatters.com.
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