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  Edie Brickell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edie Brickell (born March 10, 1966 in Dallas, (Oak Cliff) Texas) is an American singer/songwriter.
In the late 1980s Brickell was the lead singer with the folk-rock group Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was a critical and commercial success.
Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film, Born on the Fourth of July.
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 Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Stranger Things (Album Review)
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians was a good band that was on the verge of becoming a great one when it suddenly disbanded after its sophomore effort Ghost of a Dog failed to achieve the same level of commercial success as its platinum-selling debut Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars.
Though Brickell made several attempts at forging a solo career via the slick sterility of Picture Perfect Morning as well as the subtle beauty of Volcano, neither album quite captured the organic essence of the work that she did with her former group.
As Brickell sings about a final effort to salvage a relationship that has gone sour, New Bohemians creates a warm, inviting atmosphere that perfectly frames the yearning in her voice, and the result is a song that ought to provide the ensemble with the perfect vehicle for retaking the pop charts.
www.musicbox-online.com /reviews-2006/ediebrickell-strangerthings.html   (488 words)

  
 Edie Brickell is telling good stories again
Edie Brickell has a mischievous smile on her face when the singer says she's a little jealous of her children's musical ability.
In her early 20s, Brickell walked away from the music business to have a family, despite huge success with the New Bohemians.
Brickell was performing "What I Am" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" when she noticed Paul Simon standing in front of the cameraman.
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 Extratv.com : Edie Brickell
New York, NY (August 12, 2003) -- From the moment she begins singing on her much-anticipated new album, Edie Brickell's voice is instantly familiar, even after a ten-year break from recording.
A simply arranged, rootsy waltz that features Brickell singing and accompanying herself on guitar, the song epitomizes the album: a powerfully immediate, distinctively solo effort on which she is the only vocalist and plays guitar throughout.
When she had written enough songs and was ready to record, Brickell reached fellow native Texan Charlie Sexton to produce the album with her.
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 Edie Brickell - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Edie Brickell was born in 1966 in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.
This was fine with Brickell, who had burned out from the press attention and touring that followed Rubberbands' success, and was content to quietly issue the record while focusing on her and Simon's young son.
Brickell finally hit restart on her solo career in 2003 with Volcano (Chery/Universal).
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 CNN.com - Whatever happened to Edie Brickell? - Jan. 7, 2004
Brickell said she still jams with them when she goes home to Texas.
Brickell and the 62-year-old Simon, who have been married 12 years, have never recorded an album together.
As for a von Trapp-style concert, Brickell said family singalongs are confined to the house.
www.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/07/music.edie.brickell.ap   (694 words)

  
 Edie Brickell News
At first glance, Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians' show Friday night at Club Dada was like stepping out of a time machine from 1987: Same Dallas band, same Deep Ellum club, same jazzy wah-wah guitar solo...
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians will play the outdoor stage of Club Dada for two special shows this weekend, previewing songs from the band's first album in 16 years, Stranger Things.
Oak Cliff native Edie Brickell may be solo on her last two albums, 1994's Picture Perfect Morning and the recent Volcano, but her music has always had that sense of collaboration that...
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 Edie Brickell cds, vinyl records and music albums (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Edie Brickell had such a big hit with "What I Am" in 1988 that it looked like she'd be the Julia Roberts of song (Brickell is one long, lean, and lippy Texan) and ride superstardom right into the 1990s.
Brickell married Paul Simon and settled into a happy motherhood, recording only when she had something special to say.
edie brickell a hard rains a gonna fall (deleted 1990 uk 7" from the film born on the fourth of july b/w the early days conducted by john williams picture sleeve mca1397) tracklisting: 1.
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 The Austin Chronicle Music: What It Is: Edie Brickell
What's back in place prompting Brickell to grant her first extensive interview in nearly a decade is the original New Bohemians lineup: Brickell, guitarist Kenny Withrow, bassist Brad Houser, percussionist John Bush, and Aly on drums.
While Brickell admits it's mostly "jams we managed to lasso enough to call songs," Montauk's eight tracks are as loose, funky, and soulful as the last collection released under the New Bohemians moniker, 1985's It's Like This, the homemade cassette that put Deep Ellum back on the map and the New Bohemians on Geffen.
Brickell says that while they were relieved that Geffen allowed them to hire a friend, Dallas drummer Matt Chamberlin, the band's chemistry was immediately and fundamentally different.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-06-02/music_feature2.html   (2346 words)

  
 Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Then: Discovered as a college student while working the redeye shift as a waitress, Edie Brickell, when after a shot of Jack Daniels coaxed her into doing spontaneous singing with a local band New Bohemians.
She released her solo effort, Picture Perfect Morning, in 1995 which was co-produced by her husband.
Brickell has recently been performing shows here and there with the New Bohemians.
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 CMT.com : Edie Brickell : Biography
Edie Brickell was born in 1966 in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.
Geffen naturally thought otherwise, but Brickell was resolute.
She supported the effort with the usual round of late-night TV appearances and a brief tour, and in 2006, reuniting with some of the original members of the New Bohemians, Stranger Things, the first studio album from the group in almost 16 years, came out.
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 Amazon.ca: Volcano: Music: Edie Brickell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The quirky singer who led the Texas-based roots rock titans the New Bohemians to chart glory in 1990 with the slacker anthem "What I Am" is making another run at the charts with her first solo album in almost a decade.
When she's not spinning her disturbing tales, Brickell is the consummate chanteuse as she recounts her courtship to Simon on the breathy and seductive "Once In A Blue Moon," or fogs up the windows in "More than Friends"--the thinking women's love song.
The first album Edie Brickell has released in nearly ten years, "Volcano" is well worth the wait.
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 Edie Brickell hit without Bohemians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It's probably fortunate that Brickell chose to surround herself with so many skilled musicians, since her own instrumental talents are limited to a competent acoustic guitar and her voice - consistently pleasing, but lacks overwhelming range or power.
Brickell has a fine gift for crafting melodic, lilting tunes which often conceal lyrics that speak of deeper, troubled emotions.
Brickell's voice is underwhelming, but she has a way of wrapping it ever so delicately around a lyric, delivering her songs in a natural, almost organic manner.
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 Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians are a jam band that originated in Texas in the mid-1980s.
Lead singer Edie Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon after leaving the band.
Edie became the singer after being encouraged to join the band onstage during a show (the famous Jack Daniels story).
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 NPR : Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Starting Over
World Cafe, September 7, 2006 · In 1989, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians found massive success on the strength of the hit "What I Am," from the band's debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars.
With Brickell's delicate voice at the forefront, the group quickly became known for its wry, charming, folk-inflected indie-rock.
The new Stranger Things finds Edie Brickell and New Bohemians returning to their jam-band beginnings, while retaining the playful and distinct sound that made them successful in the first place.
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 Edie Brickell - Biography - AOL Music
She attended Southern Methodist University for a year and a half before drinking up enough courage in a bar one night in 1985 to get up on stage with a local band, the New Bohemians.
They finally settled on the personnel of Brad Houser (bass), Kenny Withrow (guitar), and Matt Chamberlain (drums) before taking off for Rockfield Studios in Wales to record their debut album.
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 JamBase | Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians CD Giveaway
Trailblazing combo Edie Brickell & New Bohemians will release their first studio recording in nearly 16 years.
Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians first stormed onto the charts with their 1989 debut Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars.
Soulful, sometimes downright funky, grooves form the backdrop for Brickell's compelling story-songs, engaging miniatures about lovers interrupting the housework to rekindle their spark, disco-loving palls figuring out what to do on a Saturday night after their money's gone and a pair of young runaways confronting romantic uncertainty.
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 Edie Brickell: Volcano - PopMatters Music Review
This triple threat is too much even for a voice like Brickell's to overcome; it actually seems at times that, with a half-hearted effort, Edie has put her great talent into fetters.
Flatter than her newly-learned diminished chords are Brickell's lyrics, which have their magical moments, but tend toward the tedious.
Even Edie's supposed surprises are cliché, as is the whole storyline for "The One Who Went Away": "Out on the moor he met his lover / In the wet grass above her knees / And there he swore he loves no other / Then he came running home to me".
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 Amazon.com: Ultimate Collection: Music: Edie Brickell & New Bohemians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians really were an album group more than a singles act, though, and that means aside from the handful of singles you'll want to use care in choosing the rest of the cuts to select their artistic, if not commercial, peaks.
But the motherlode here for Edie connoisseurs are the last 7 tracks, consisting of four songs recorded by Edie's post Bohemians band The Slip, and 4 recordings made after she'd left the Geffen label ("A Little Time","Boys In The Band","Baby" and a duet with Carter Albrecht on "Vodka").
This CD also highlights Edie Brickell's eye to detail and the nuances that make her idiosyncratic music so very prosaically beautiful.
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 Ink 19 :: Edie Brickell
Burned out by the third album with her New Bohemians, Edie Brickell semi-retired from music-making almost ten years ago, and this is her first album since.
As uncompromising as ever, Volcano is the sound of an artist at peace with herself, wishing to share that sense of comfort with her listeners.
This is Brickell demonstrating that, while the days of Top Ten hits and multi-million sales may be behind her, she could still have some of her best work ahead of her.
www.ink19.com /issues/january2004/musicReviews/musicB/edieBrickell.html   (227 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Volcano: Music: Edie Brickell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although, in retrospect, DOG EAT DOG is not one of Joni's most enduring works, it paved the way for a new artistic direction, and some of her late period masterpieces like NIGHT RIDE HOME and TURBULENT INDIGO combined social and political commentary with the more intimate, confessional qualities she had been known for.
I must confess that I have been an avid Edie Brickell (and New Bohemians) fan for at least 15 years now, so my review will be biased.
My perception of the story: Edie Brickell evidently lost her father a few years ago, and when she went home for the funeral, she had an ethereal experience involving a white bird -- The Messenger.
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 Edie Brickell is feeling good about the comeback trail
Brickell, 38, is the former waifish lead singer of the platinum-selling folk-rock band the New Bohemians, whose album "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" yielded the hit song "What I Am." The group's sound was a blend of folk, jazz, Grateful Dead-style improv and Caribbean-flavored rock.
Brickell met Simon, 62, when she and the New Bohemians performed on "Saturday Night Live" in the early '90s.
She was singing "What I Am" when she spotted Simon at the side of stage and flubbed the lyrics.
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 Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 YouTube - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Love Like We Do
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 Central Park SummerStage
SummerStage is proud to host the New York premier of Edie Brickell & New bohemians, publicly reunited after more than a decade.
The band's 1988 debut Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars saw the Texas-based Bohemians hit the big time with "What I Am"—a Top Ten hit whose looping guitar riff and winsome, ambiguous lyrics turned Brickell into an early spokeswoman for twentysomethings around the world.
Brickell married in 1992 and occasionally surfaced with new music, particularly 1994's Picture Perfect Morning and 2004's Volcano.
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 Edie Brickell | texasgigs.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Edie Brickell was born in Oak Cliff and briefly attended SMU.
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 American Masters . Paul Simon | PBS
About the tour he said, "The concept was new, taking players from all over, and fusing them together in a big band sound." Though controversial, the tour was a major success around the world.
By 1990 he had followed up GRACELAND with THE RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS and four years later was married to singer Edie Brickell.
For Simon, the 1990s were a time of continued experimentation, concentrating primarily on a major musical called "The Capeman".
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