Jennie DeVoe: Press

On the list of my favorite CD titles of the year so far, Indiana native Jennie DeVoe's 4th self-released CD should be the one that puts her on the map. People tend to like homogenous CDs...not me; I want diversity; something to prove that the artist is no one-trick pony. Rest assured - Jennie's got a lot of tricks up her sleeve.
- CD Review, Art Hell
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One of the best albums of the year by any artist, FW&KS is a career-defining record for a remarkable talent, Jennie DeVoe. Having been privileged enough to experience Jennie's live shows and witness her audible evolution over the last six years, I am floored by this effort. Jennie is a truly unique vocal talent. I sit dumbfounded at the artistic actualization she's managed to get down on record. The brevity she possesses within her languid, raspy performance is risky, but all the while it seems a natural progression in all its sexy, bluesy, truthful
bliss. Her powerhouse voice can stop you in your tracks but it also possesses a sweetness that surges and sears the soul.

Jennie DeVoe, folk rocker and starlet sensation, blew up the Indy Folk Series kick-off last Saturday night. I was blown away. In a room of nearly a hundred patrons, the sight is spectacular and dually appropriate for the attention that is rightfully owed for lyrical poets like Jennie DeVoe. You could swear that you had stepped back in time to the beatnik era of Ginsberg and Kerouac. DeVoe's voice can make chiseled-chinned men with heavy callused hands sucking cold ones back after a ten hour shift weep, and love-sick tortured poets with hearts of stone and tongues of fire grow daisies from their chests. DeVoe's diamond penned words in songs like "Pale Blue Girl" evoke the kind of classical sexiness of Billie Holiday not to mention her reinvention of the forever young Janis Joplin in "Piece of My Heart". And she does just that - takes a little piece of you just to keep you alive.