According to the Americana Music Association, Eilen Jewell’s ‘Sundown Over Ghost Town’ (May 26
/ Signature Sounds) is the most-added album of this week. In addition,
the album is the second most-added at AAA radio behind only the Alabama
Shakes.
Meanwhile, last week, The Boot compared her to Kacey Musgraves, calling
her music "poignant" and proclaiming that she "is an artist to keep your
eyes on" in a premiere of the song “Needle & Thread."
“Needle & Thread” describes the town where Eilen’s dad lives, where
her family land is located. She says, “On one of the maps I have, it’s
listed as a ghost town, but there are more than 400 residents of Idaho
City. The town has changed very little since I was a kid. But I see it
all with new eyes after having lived in Boston for nine years. It’s
mostly timber, dirt and rocks. Both Idaho City and the land around it
have certainly seen better days. It was once the capitol of the
Northwest — during the Gold Rush — but the miners took most of the gold
out of it, and then it burned down twice.”
The themes are universal, says Eilen, explaining, “This song deals with
the love/hate duality surrounding the concept of home. More so than
anything else in life, home has a way of patching us together and
messing us up.”
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