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Rock. Country. Folk. Americana. Amy Speace & The Tearjerks blend it like Jersey City sludge. Like a more urban Emmylou with a pissy streak, Amy added her band of boys, The Tearjerks, and recorded her newest offering "Songs For Bright Street" (Wildflower Records, May 2006) in a Hoboken recording studio housed behind an old homing pigeon club. This is an album that doesn't care what bin it lands into. The lyrics mix the blunt and the poetic and lay on a hooky melodic bed. From the edgy rant of "Not The Heartless Kind" to the AAA sunshiney "Step Out of the Shade" to the pared down old timey "Two" (a duet w/ The Jayhawks' Gary Louris) to the all out wail of "Shed This Skin", "Bright Street", produced by Tearjerks' lead guitar player James Mastro (The Bongos, Health & Happiness Show, Ian Hunter), is a great ride. Amy Speace has played with Alejandro Escovedo, Steve Forbert, Judy Collins, Catie Curtis, Rosie Flores and Ricky Skaggs, among others. A 2006 Kerrville New Folk Finalist, Amy was the 2005 KRCL-sponsored Songwriter's Showcase Winner at the Founder's Title Folk & Bluegrass Festival and has been honored by The Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, The Telluride Troubadour Competition among others.

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.amyspeace.com

Track List:
1. Step Out of the Shade
2. Water Landing
3. Not The Heartless Kind
4. Two
5. Shed This Skin
6. The Real Thing
7. Make Me Lonely Again
8. Dreaming
9. Row Row Row
10. Right Through To Me
11. Can't Find A Reason To Cry
12. Double Wide Trailer
13. Home

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