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Hometown: Lyons, CO
Label: Awnry Girl Records
Management: PR: http://bbb.helmetroom.com/
Website: www.jamilunde.bandzoogle.com
Sounds Like: Kathleen Edwards Page, Lucinda Williams, Mazzy Star
Genre: Americana
Jami Lunde and Eben Grace met in 2006, amid the flowering bluegrass music scene of Lyons, CO.
2 kindred, wayward musical souls more at home with snarling cranked amps than banjo ramblings, they've conspired to bring their vision of gritty, windswept, sad girl Americana to audiences far and wide.
An original Midwest native, Jami grew up to a background of album rock and began singing and writing as soon as she could reach the guitar. She writes from the far flung waypoints of her heart, soul and tattered passport. A Colorado native, Eben cut his teeth in bars and on the road, developing a distinct guitar voice honed simply to suit the song.
Jami and Eben collaborated on Jami's 2010 release 'big black birds' and have played together steadily ever since. With Jami's burnished, honest voice and larger than life j-200 strum, and Eben's deep-track tele tone, their tiny band fills any room with music and spirit.
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About Big Black Birds
Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven...Big Black Birds is about the conversations between Jami and the black birds that followed her all over Colorado, California, Thailand, and Indonesia while she was writing this album. The album is built from her experience as an alt- country troubadour, weaving tales of travel, self-realization and death. Features Chris Funk of The Decemberists...
This album was produced by Jami Lunde and Eben Grace (Grace Designs), and features a guest appearance from her long time friend Chris Funk of The Decemberists, who plays moog, lap dulcimer and electric guitars on the Wilco-esque heavy song Raincloud.
In addition, Jami made use of the vast talent pool of amazing players in and around Lyons, Co : Todd Patrick Livingston (Hit and Run bluegrass, Missy Raines, Ralph Stanley jr, ), Jack Leahy (Gregory Alan Isakov, Paper Bird) Brian Schey (Great American Taxi) along with Ian Morlock (Kort McCumber & The High Road) and Greg McRae on Keys, guitar and percussion. Falling in the neighborhood of Lucinda Williams with her full band, Buick Six, and Kathleen Edwards, Jami is proud to have written all the songs on the album and to have worked with such notable talents. Big Black Birds was Recorded at Macy Sound Studios in Denver, Coupe Studios in Boulder, North Fork Studio in Lyons, CO and Funk Studio in Portland, OR from June 2009- December 2010.
“A world traveled alt.country troubadour, Lunde parks it in Colorado with some local luminaries with national reputations and turns in the set people that who would like a Lucinda Williams that speaks to a younger generation have been looking for. With concise, hard hitting lyrics leading the way, this is one of those indie albums that sneaks up on you and blows you away. A welcome new vector for Americana for sure.”
Midwest Entertainment
“Jami Lunde is one of the primary musical forces emanating from the outsized arts community in Lyons. She produces concerts in the area, including the popular tributes to various venerated artists at Oskar Blues. She's also a serious songwriter and performer.
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Quentin Young - Longmont Times-Call
“Over the years, Jami has gathered over $16,000 from you generous and caring folks of this wonderful little town for: the Japanese tsunami, the Haitian earthquake/Bresma orphanage, the Fourmile and Waldo fires.”
David McIntyre - Lyons' Recorder
“On Sept. 8, singer-songwriter Jami Lunde of Lyons will have the opportunity to play Steve's famous room that's quietly tucked in the mountain town of Carbondale. Lunde is touring nationally to promote her latest album, “Big Black Birds,” that features Chris Funk of The Decemberists.
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April Clark - Post Independant
“A Little Bit Blue”
Chris K. - The Colorado Sound
“Jami Lunde #29 on The Best of 2011”
Chris K. - The Colorado Sound
“Jami’s vocals remind me of Mindy Smith, but with a little more ‘umph’ behind them - and I LOVE Mindy Smith, so that’s a big compliment from me! Not too many singers are comfortable showing genuine vulnerability or singing simple, single notes instead of implementing excessive runs, vibratos, and vocal gymnastics that are now mandatory for anyone to take singers seriously, thanks to shows like American Idol. These ladies voices are so pure, and the emotion evoked from the lyrics really shine through - and isn’t that the whole point of music - to convey emotion?”
Nancy Rosenblatt Wilson - Trails of Crumbs Blog
“Now celebrating a “new beginning,” Lunde is letting her old friends know she will be one of three top Colorado songwriters featured in a concert (Rocky Mtn Folks Festival @ Planet Bluegrass) in Lyons this weekend.
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Cynthia McCoy - Sky Hi News
“This album builds and builds and builds, it is a piece of work that grows on you each time you listen to it. Which in my opinion, is the real sign of a truly great piece of music. You will hear something new that you missed with each listen. Either a lyric you didn’t catch first listen or a riff that hits you right between the eyes.”
Dave McIntyre - Lyons Recorder
“from the get go, I realized she was on a journey and that journey included her songs and experiences and everything life was throwing her way. She is a take-charge kind of gal and she creates good results on her journey. She is a force on stage with her strong and driving Gibson guitars and soft yet powerful voice that surrounds the lyrics and propels her songs across to the audience. Her songs are poems full of imagery and wonder, as in the title cut, “as the Black Birds fly by as she is losing her mind, they steal her sunshine but collect all her water and love her like a daughter.””
Dave McIntyre - Lyons Recorder
“Jami Lunde
Big Black Birds
Awnry Girl Records
3.5 out of 5 stars
One can only imagine the loneliness that accompanies solo travels through Colorado, California and Southeast Asia. Hence, Jami Lunde titled her second album after the birds that helped keep her loneliness at bay. The melancholic loneliness, however, slips through and is strikingly present in both the instrumentals and vocals on her most recent CD.”
Andrew Wojik - Marquee Magazine
“One can only imagine the loneliness that accompanies solo travels through Colorado, California and Southeast Asia. Hence, Jami Lunde titled her second album after the birds that helped keep her loneliness at bay. The melancholic loneliness, however, slips through and is strikingly present in both the instrumentals and vocals on her most recent CD.”
Andrew Wojik - Marquee Magazine
