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A Town Called Hell by Farrell Spence
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fave it Bluegrass | Urban Folk
10 tracks | 52 minutes
Released Jul 2007
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Farrell's first album, "A Town Called Hell", is a collection of rail yard ballads and lullabies for the lost and lonely, delivered with ghostly, heart-wrenching beauty.
Bio / Background
Farrell Spence is a singer and songwriter based out of Vancouver, Canada. This seasoned actor and stage-writer began her work as a full-time musician after 6 years of writing and performing in the critically acclaimed "30 Helens" -- the touring show she co-founded and produced from 1996 to 2002.
Farrell's first album, "A Town Called Hell", is a collection of rail yard ballads and lullabies for the lost and lonely, delivered with ghostly, heart-wrenching beauty. Farrell's own smoky, mournful vocalizations and guitar work continue a long-standing tradition of soulful Canadian balladry and guitar stylings -- inspired by The Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young and Joanie Mitchell. Her lyrics are poetic and honest, woven into songs which hit like a blast of deja-vu -- creating an uncanny, haunting sensation that lingers in the listener long after the final chords have been struck.
↓ more ↓Each track on "A Town Called Hell" is autobiographical, summoning the eccentric and tragic characters from Farrell's own tumultuous 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 a history peppered with both musicians and rogues -- 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 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 “Tell It To Someone Else”, “Losing You Again”, a track Farrell co-wrote with her mother, “Here’s To You and Me”, a poignant duet with Rob Bracken, and a striking interpretation of 2005 Americana Award Winner Mary Gauthier’s “I Drink”.
Joining her on the album are veteran musicians Johannes Grames of “The Grames Brothers”, Rob Bracken of Vancouver blues band “Brickhouse” and Paul O’Callaghan of Cork, Ireland’s “Moontan” & ‘Brigadoon’.
Two of her songs were featured on season two of "THE CHRIS ISAAK SHOW" and Farrell's songs can be heard on regular airplay on CBC Radio in Canada and on many independent folk/country stations in the USA.
Farrell has garnered an online following of listeners in Canada, the USA, the UK, Italy, Denmark, France and Ireland. She plays regularly in Vancouver, BC and her touring plans include Italy, the UK and Ireland in 2007 and a showcase in Toronto, Canada.
www.farrellspence.com www.myspace.com/farrellspence
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