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Hometown: Savannah, GA
Label: Wassaw Sound Records
Management: Jan Spillane
Website: www.janspillane.com
Sounds Like: Jan Spillane
Genre: Americana
Performing singer/songwriter, Jan Spillane is a multi-instrumentalist playing piano and guitar. A native of Savannah, GA, "she creates music that stretches across multiple genres." She is heavy on the blues, soft on jazz with drops of folk, pop, and country spread throughout her work thus leaving a trademark many folks call "The Key of Jan"." From the peace, love, and rock & roll days of the 1960's to the infectious trend of Americana, Jan creates a passionate and soulful, yet hypnotizing and energetic sound. More information at http://www.janspillane.com
Active member of ASCAP, AMA, & NARAS
20??: "Blue Canvas" pending release
2012: "Fill in the Blanks" Wassaw Sound Records
2012: "Welcome Home" video aired in New York March 24th in honor of Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day
2011: "Welcome Home" band video aired locally on television to honor all Veterans
2011: "Welcome Home" song released Wassaw Sound Records | co-written with Caroline Switzer Verner
2010: "Good as Gold" released Wassaw Sound Records
2010: Regional Finalist in the Southeast | Mountain Stage NewSong Contest
2009: "Thinking Out Loud" released Wassaw Sound Records
2008: "If Looks Could Kill" Promo for Showtime Cable Networks, Inc. popular TV Series, "The L Word"
2007: "What it's Not" publishing contract with AhHa Music Group | co-written with legendary singer/songwriter, Wood Newton
2006: "Let it Go" vocalist of the month in Singer Universe Magazine | co-written with the late, Bryan Sacks
2006: "Ole Blue Jeans" representation agreement with Portia Entertainment Group
2006: "Painting the Blues" CD self-released
2001: "2nd Nature" CD self-released
2000: "Time Keeps (Remix)" featured w Rod Stewart's "Forever Young" on video, "100 Years of Tybee Island", co-written with Phil Hadaway and John Graham
1999: "A lady knows when to Leave" voted one of the best R&B songs by Billboard Magazine World Competition
1998: "Gut Feeling" CD self-released
1982: "Welcome to Miller Time" Vocalist for commercial for the Miller Brewing Company
DISCOGRAPHY
20?? "Blue Canvas" | Wassaw Sound Records - Pending
2012 "Fill in the Blanks" (Single) | Wassaw Sound Records
2011 "Welcome Home" (Picture Video) | Jan Spillane Music
2011 "Welcome Home" (Band Video) | Jan Spillane Music
2011 "Welcome Home" (Single) | Wassaw Sound Records
2010 "Good as Gold" (Single) | Wassaw Sound Records
2009 "Thinking out Loud" | Wassaw Sound Records
2006 "Painting the Blues" | Jan Spillane Music
2001 "2nd Nature" | Jan Spillane Music
1999 "In my Head" Jan Spillane Music - Unreleased
1998 "Gut Feeling" | Jan Spillane Music
1998 "A Christmas Wish | Jan Spillane Music - Radio airplay
1995 "Box of Rain" | Box of Rain - Radio airplay
"Good as Gold" is freaking Awesome, Jan."
Dewayne Brown - Label & Artist Development at RED / A Division of Sony Music |
"Fill in the Blanks is really infectious and a great message. Good work my friend."
Tony Arata - Tony Arata
“Page 19 - Jan is one of the few native Savannah artists who regularly record and perform original music. A couple of preview tracks from her upcoming record, Blue Canvas, are available for listening at www. janspillane.com. That’s Not Love is a sultry, smoky blues tune, while Come Spring is a jazzy piano ballad. If this is any indication of what the rest of the record holds, Blue Canvas is going to be her best yet.”
Curtis Lynch - Playgrounds Magazine "Rattlesnake Confusion"
"Jan Spillane is one of Savannah's premier singer/songwriters writing songs that somehow resonate with every listener on a different wavelength. With her soulful, expressive voice, she literally sounds like no one else, and is equally proficient on guitar and piano."
Bill DeYoung - Connect Savannah
“Soulful, sexy singer/songwriter Spillane (how is that for alliteration?) has the soul of a hopeless romantic, the voice of a smoky jazz chanteuse and the tenacity of a hardworking blues diva.”
Bill DeYoung - Connect Savannah
““Breathy and brazen, swinging and sexy, Spillane gooses the blues, country and plain old Joni-esque folk music into something extraordinary.””
Bill DeYoung - Connect Savannah
““...Groups including Wilco, Band of Heathens, Coachmen and Jan Spillane echo the musical sound that’s pulling inspiration from all over the map. It’s called Americana.”
The Harmonica, Americana and U (SB) by Jim McLean
December 2009
| Riverside, IL
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Jim McLean - Ezine Articles "The Harmonica, Americana and U(SB)"
“In the case of Jan Spillane singer songwriter singer, American though she is, she greatly channels that sensibility with influences such as John Prine and Joni Mitchell. Folk, blues, and country are all combined or mused on separately in Spillane's work and it is this versatility and desire to bend and warp established genres that makes her a wonderful songwriter.”
John Cowell - GreatSongwriting.Com "British Singer Songwriter" (United Kingdom)
"Reinvent Myself might be the best song that Joni DIDN'T write. It is a beauty, with great jazzy style guitar and smoky, breathy vocals combining in the making of a great song."
Rob Forbes (Stevo) - LEICESTER BANGS (United Kingdom)
