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	NewBeats: Nellie McKay interview
		McKay's music is sophisticated and smart, but the artist herself is very self-deprecating about her approach to songwriting, especially when it comes to the words.
		McKay's mannered, articulate, and slightly-accented speech might be due to the fact that she was born in London.
		McKay continues on the topic of social issues and is not afraid to speak her mind.
	www.newbeats.com /nelliemckayinterview.html (1451 words)

	Nellie McKay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nellie McKay (born 13 April 1982) is a singer-songwriter, actress and former stand-up comedian, noted for her critically-acclaimed debut album Get Away from Me.
		McKay (pronounced "Mc-EYE") was born in London, England to a Scottish writer/director, Malcolm McKay, and an American actress, Robin Pappas.
		McKay is said to be the first woman to release a double album as her first release.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nellie_McKay (1064 words)

	Nellie McKay - Music Downloads - Online
		McKay, in fact, shares Newman's penchant for lyrics that are cynical and sarcastic as well as dark-humored; like Newman, McKay knows how to laugh at the world even when she's complaining about how screwed up it is -- and she can be incredibly clever and witty.
		McKay was born in London, England, on April 13, 1984, but has spent most of her life in the United States.
		McKay began performing around Manhattan in the early 2000s, and for a while, she was managed by folk-rocker Lach (who often booked her at the Sidewalk Café in the East Village).
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/129/9/1001299.html (516 words)

	CMT.com : Nellie McKay : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		McKay, who is also a talented pianist, brings an unlikely combination of influences to her work, which isn't easy to categorize.
		McKay, in fact, shares Newman's penchant for lyrics that are cynical and sarcastic as well as dark-humored; like Newman, McKay knows how to laugh at the world even when she's complaining about how screwed up it is -- and she can be incredibly clever and witty.
		McKay was born in London, England, on April 13, 1984, but spent most of her early life in the United States.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/mckay_nellie/bio.jhtml (625 words)

	SPIN.com: Nellie McKay
		Elsewhere McKay laments the gentrification of the Harlem neighborhood she grew up in ("The Big One") and sings the praises of gay marriage ("Cupcake").
		McKay's politics won't win over any red states, but there's a chance that her songs might: She is so gifted a melodist that it's possible ignore the dark subject matter or proliferation of profanities until after the music has burrowed its way into your skull.
		Advance copies were mailed out with 16 tracks, though McKay is reportedly fighting hard for the inclusion of all 23 songs she wrote for the album.
	www.spin.com /features/band_of_the_day/2005/12/051213_nellie_mckay (288 words)

	Cancer claims seminal figure in the study of black literature (Jan 23, 2006)
		Nellie Y. McKay, a pioneer in the field of Afro-American studies and Evjue Professor of American and African-American Literature at UW-Madison, died Sunday, Jan. 22 of colon cancer.
		McKay also is co-editor of an edition of "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2000).
		"Nellie was always in her office from sunrise to well past dusk, every day, with her door open, nurturing students and colleagues, building the models that will shape her disciplines for decades to come," Werner says.
	www.news.wisc.edu /12054.html (687 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nellie McKay was signed to Columbia Records in 2003 and, shortly thereafter, began recording her debut album, a double-disk set entitled Get Away From Me.
		Nellie was recently seen performing-- along with Elvis Costello, Green Day, and Robbie Williams--on the "Later With Jools" television show in England.
		In early March, Nellie performed a duet of "It's A Pose" with Triumph The Insult Comic Dog and the Max Weinberg Seven at the Beacon Theatre in a show to benefit the McCarton School, which specializes in treatment of autistic children.
	www.nelliemckay.com /bio.html (333 words)

	Amazon.com: Pretty Little Head: Music: Nellie McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nellie McKay is a headstrong, twenty-four year old artist who isn't afraid to take chances with her music and not compromise her artistic vision.
		McKay's sophomore album was famously stopped from release by Columbia Records, who apparently demanded that it be released as a single disc rather than as the double-disc album the artist wanted.
		I must admit I hadn't heard about Nellie McKay but a friend whose musical tastes I respect recommended McKay to me, so I checked her out, and I have to say I was very surprised (in the best of ways).
	www.amazon.com /Pretty-Little-Head-Nellie-McKay/dp/B000HIP4CY (1341 words)

	Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head - Review - Stylus Magazine
		Nellie McKay is a form of singer-songwriter combining music, forays into the theatre, political activism, and hissy fits aimed at former labels.
		The emotional content of her career—humor, pathos, preciousness, and detachment—as well as the stories themselves, are communicated through cocktail bar piano rock interspersed randomly with hip-hop, cheerleader chants, bhangra middle-eights, and moonshine banjo riffs as an integrated whole.
		And sure, Nellie McKay had a meltdown with her label, gave up music for a short while to try her luck on Broadway, and settled on a more subtle shade of golden brown for her hair.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /reviews/nellie-mckay/pretty-little-head.htm (782 words)

	Tower Records - Get Away From Me [Explicit Lyrics] - Nellie McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This double-disc debut album from former music jazz student Nellie McKay is outstanding and stunning in almost every way, from her wonderful voice to all the musicians who contribute on her album, and believe me, there are a lot of them.
		McKay is able to sing in many different styles, from jazz to rap and you would have never thought that she would be able to pull off rap numbers such as "Ding Dong" and "That Dog Song" but she does so with ease.
		McKay not only sings but composes all her pieces and plays seven different instruments on various songs throughout the album.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2948528 (628 words)

	Nellie McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The power of her vocal delivery was matched only by the virtuosity of her piano playing, which combined with her wonderful songs to keep the audience in a near constant state of dropped jaws for the 80 minutes or so that she played.
		McKay sang 13 of the 18 songs on the record, matching or surpassing in all cases the recorded versions.
		I had the chance to meet her after the show and although it's hard in such conversations to avoid cliche, she seemed genuinely nice and refreshingly unrehearsed in dealing with the attention she is receiving.
	www.rambles.net /mckay04_live.html (528 words)

	Nellie McKay ~ News, Photos, Discography, Lyrics, Discussion, Links, Media and Shows
		Nellie McKay is a singer-songwriter known for her distinctive mix of jazz vocals and torch singing with cabaret pop, rock and a rap-inspired rants.
		Nellie is completely committed to achieving her artistic vision, even if it means having to step on some toes.
		Nellie McKay has been anointed the “next big thing” by the music industry thanks to the success of her critically acclaimed albums Get Away from Me (2004) and Pretty Little Head (2006).
	www.nelliemckay.org (1615 words)

	www.myspace.com/prettylittlehead
		McKay (pronounced "Mc-EYE") was born in London, England to a Scottish writer/director, Malcolm McKay, and an American actress, Robin Pappas.
		McKay is said to be the first woman to release a double album as her first release.
		Nellie McKay was one of the major breakout artists from the 2004 SXSW Festival and was a finalist in the 2004 Shortlist Music Prize, and Get Away From Me was on several "Best of 2004" lists.
	www.myspace.com /prettylittlehead (1667 words)

	Nellie McKay and Eartha Kitt: Center Stage
		McKay: I know a lot of feminists who go to pro-choice rallies and marches, but in their careers - maybe as actors - they do things I don't really consider feminist.
		Nellie, it was very nice of you to have gone along with it, because you weren't expecting me to do that.
		McKay: Well, certainly, that intimacy is lacking from a lot of things, but my generation has a certain amount of cynicism.
	harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3988 (1668 words)

	Amazon.com: Get Away from Me: Music: Nellie McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		McKay quickly changes personas becoming a torchy siren on her paean to domesticity "I Wanna Get Married," wearing her irony as lightly--and as transparently--as a see-through negligee.
		At nineteen, McKay has only scratched the surface of what she's capable of, veering from witty jazz, to edgy cabaret, to brash confessionals, and taking the listener on what certainly will prove to be a long, eccentric ride.
		Nellie McKay is a great writer, her music is witty insightful deep and fun.
	www.amazon.com /Get-Away-Me-Nellie-McKay/dp/B0001AP07M (1128 words)

	Her Life Is a Cabaret - Nelly McKay
		Nellie McKay, the 19-year-old with one of the winter’s hottest records, writes lyrics like a gonzo Cole Porter, sings like an attitudinal Peggy Lee—and lives with her mother in Harlem.
		After a spiteful divorce from Nellie’s father, a British director and writer, Pappas raised her only child in Harlem, until Nellie was mugged at age 10; they packed a VW van with their dog and nine cats and moved to Olympia, Washington, and later to rural Pennsylvania.
		Mother and daughter were poor, and McKay recalls huddling in the kitchen to watch TV when a landlord had turned off the heat.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/features/n_10015 (748 words)

	Nellie McKay 11/23/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Even Nellie herself alluded to both artists in her show, defining them as influences.
		Nellie sang most of the songs from her CD, Get Away From Me. The Dog Song, I Wanna Get Married, Clonie and my personal favorite, Inner Peace, were all faithfully and energetically sashayed.
		Nellie handled all these tasks with aplomb, talking with fans in the audience, and imploring any future editors to 'remove this part.' Nellie Mckay is original, stylin', and packs a punch.
	www.amanandamouse.com /gallery/nelliemckay/nellie.html (231 words)

	Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head - Each Note Secure
		Nellie McKay is wacked out, seriously, this gal marches to the beat of her own drummer.
		McKay has been through the gauntlet in the past year though, as Sony decided to chop Pretty Little Head in half and then drop Nellie as well.
		Nellie wanted the 23 song, 2 disc version to see the light of day, while the label insisted on a 16 song version.
	www.eachnotesecure.com /nellie-mckay-pretty-little-head (519 words)

	Past Clients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nellie had written her first song and had come to the open stage to pursue stand-up comedy but played the song seeing that most of the performers there were songwriters.
		Shortly after her first show Lach signed Nellie to a management deal with Fortified Entertainment and began his pursuit of the major labels.
		Asking the celebrated Trachtenberg family to invite their connection at Timeout to Nellie's show resulted in a rave in the magazine.
	www.antifolk.net /artists/nelliemckay (174 words)

	www.myspace.com/nelliemckay
		McKay crafts piano-based standards that bristle with smart, thorny lyrics and address everything from cloning to pet adoption, and she delivers them with lingering languor, then rat-a-tat bravado.
		McKay is truly one of a kind: So eclectic is this 20-year-old singer-pianist that her debut album couldn't be confined to a single disc.
		Brash as they come, McKay drenches you in her ideas......I Wanna Get Married, arguably the finest of the album's 18 songs, is a deadpan ;50s-style come-on cooed in the voice of a caffeinated Julie London: ;I wanna pack cute little lunches for my Brady bunches, then read Danielle Steele, she sneers sweetly.
	www.myspace.com /nelliemckay (1895 words)

	Fireworks: The New Yorker
		The nineteen-year-old singer and pianist Nellie McKay has said repeatedly that she wants to be famous, and she has generated a small bible of press clippings to nudge the process along.
		McKay pushes her politics (peta activist, no friend of Bush, “tired of white people”) and cherry-picks her rich backstory: a peripatetic childhood, spent travelling with her mother, the actress Robin Pappas, between the Poconos; Olympia, Washington; and Harlem in a Volkswagen bus.
		McKay has done standup comedy, and there are moments when she seems merely wacky, but her musical facility buoys up even her lesser moments.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music/?040524crmu_music (865 words)

	Nellie McKay MP3 Downloads - Nellie McKay Music Downloads - Nellie McKay Music Videos
		Get Away from Me, the title of singer/songwriter Nellie McKay's debut album, was a play on two titles by romantic female vocalists who became popular in the early 2000s: Norah Jones' Come Away With...
		McKay was born in London, England, on April 13, 1984, but has spent most of her life in the United States.
		McKay began performing around Manhattan in the early 2000s, and for a while, she was managed by folk-rocker Lach (who often booked her at the Sidewalk Café in the East Village).
	www.mp3.com /nellie-mckay/artists/590608/summary.html (631 words)

	Nellie McKay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was fortunate to receive a call from McKay recently in the few spare moments she had during a world tour.
		McKay was born in London in 1984 and moved to New York City two years later.
		McKay says she's looking forward to it and plans on performing with a band, doing much of the music from the album, a few standards, and some songs relating to animal rights.
	www.animalliberationfront.com /Saints/Musicians/NellieMcKay.htm (1485 words)

	Nellie McKay: Get Away From Me (2004): Reviews
		Unlike contemporaries such as Norah Jones, McKay brings a darker edge and a sense of humor (and even a hint of hip hop) to her songs, all of which she wrote herself.
		McKay runs the risk of stalling out at "adorably wacky" instead of actually meaning anything at all, or rewarding multiple listens with something more.
		First time I heard Nellie Mckay was on the Late Show with David Letterman, she was performing "The Dog Song".
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/mckaynellie/getawayfromme (863 words)

	Friends of Animals \| Nellie McKay’s Brilliant Voice for the Animals \| Summer 2006
		McKay admits she’s “not the greatest cook,” but reveals that she was very excited to read the recipe for vegan pesto in her copy of Dining With Friends: The Art of North American Vegan Cuisine.
		McKay’s second album, “Pretty Little Head,” was to arrive early in 2006; but a split with Columbia records has delayed the release.
		It’s clear that Nellie Mckay is devoted to animal rights, and with her star on the rise, that’s good news for the animals.
	www.friendsofanimals.org /actionline/summer-2006/nellie-mckay.php (604 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Nellie McKay :: Princess of the Protest Ditty (Page 1)
		McKay may be praising Dylan’s big fl sunglasses and his squinty swagger, but since the release of her 2004 debut, Get Away From Me, she’s certainly emulated Dylan’s squirrelly relationship with the press, launching a series of in-print performance pieces: in 2003, McKay was 19 or 22, depending on who asked and when.
		McKay is actually a remarkably sweet, forthcoming and humble person, a practicing feminist and animal rights activist who loves her manager-mother and doesn’t own a television set.
		Ultimately, McKay is so compelling because she’s defiant and unmarketable, strange but eminently lovable: pop critics and talk show hosts finally settled on “eccentric” as the word that best summed her up.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=2573 (698 words)

	J's Theater: In Memoriam: Nellie McKay + Guillaume Dustan
		McKay had been chairperson of the African-American Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she'd taught since 1978.
		McKay was a crucial teacher, advisor, mentor, and friend to several generations of scholars and writers.
		A friend of mine who went to Wisconsin for graduate school always spoke highly of McKay and stated more than once that she strove to create a welcoming and nurturing community.
	jstheater.blogspot.com /2006/01/in-memoriam-nellie-mckay-guillaume.html (1653 words)

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