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- Uncut08.31.10:Watch a video of Erin and Rachel Maddow performing a song they wrote together via text-message. The song and performance were part of a recent benefit to raise money for Gulf Coast Clean-up. Check it out!. 
08.24.10:The 5th anniversary of the Katrina Hurricane and Flood is approaching. Erin has teamed with 30 other artists to put together a benefit CD. Erin contributed a live version of "Blackbirds" backed by the New Orleans band Bonerama. Purchase and find out more about "Dear New Orleans" here. 08.03.10:This fall Erin's groundbreaking debut album, "distillation", is turning 10 years old... No, we can't believe it either. In celebration, McKeown will play a series of live shows,backed by full-band, where she will perform the album in sequence followed by a set drawing from the best of her old and new music. click on TOUR for a current list of dates. 03.25.10:Hey You! Listen to two new Erin McKeown interviews: PBS NewsHour and Spydercricket Podcast. 03.10.10:Listen to Erin describe working on Patty Larkin's just released album, "25", on NPR's Morning Edition. 01.20.10: Check out Erin and pal Jill Sobule playing some of Erin's tunes at the Moog Factory. 01.13.10: Erin stopped by the Paste Magazine offices for an exclusive performance while she was out on tour. Check it out! 12.09.09: Listen to Erin's recent session on WNYC's Soundcheck |
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 2009 |
With no label exec to watch the clock, Sam Kassirer and Erin McKeown retreated to a farmhouse studio tucked in a pocket of rural New England and experimented. They squished acoustic sounds through synthesizers. They programmed electronic squiggles to mingle with orchestral strings recorded in a country church down the street. Brass and woodwinds, traditionally last, were recorded very early on so they built the core of the record instead of just layered on top. They tried it all then whittled away what didn’t work. The result is a record that’s lush but focused, that soars and dips, with lyrics that dismantle the elegance and danger of desire.   |
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 2009 |
In the grand tradition of barn-raisings and house-rent parties, Erin McKeown is inviting you into her living room, onto her porch, into her river, into her yard and asking you to lend a hand. Just as farmers needed their neighbors to help raise the roof and musicians have sung for their supper, Erin held a series of Live Internet Concerts in July of 2009 with all proceeds benefitting the recording and release of her newest album, "Hundreds of Lions". The four concerts were held in Erin's living room, porch, river, and front yard. Numerous special guests stopped by and joined in the fun. |
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 2007 |
Named after the address of New York’s much-loved Joe’s Pub, Lafayette is an on-record invitation into Erin's world, the stage, where she spends more than half of every year knocking ‘em dead nightly. Over 13 tracks, Lafayette captures the energy and musicality of McKeown as a bandleader and entertainer extraordinaire. |
click song title for lyrics 01...the band takes the stage! 02.thanks for the boogie ride 03.to the stars 04.you were right about everything 05.fast as i can 06.melody 07.james 08.we are more 09.lullaby in 3/4 10.you, sailor 11.slung-lo 12.blackbirds 13...the band says "thank you and goodnight!" |
 2007 |
Fresh on the heels of, We Will Become Like Birds, McKeown comes roaring back with Sing You Sinners, 13 songs of mischief and spunk collected from the forgotten corners of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. Written by the likes of Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, and Fats Waller, learned from Fred Astaire, Gene Krupa, Nat King Cole, and Blossom Dearie, Sinners is McKeown's singular and sly take on the not-so-standard entries in the Great American Songbook. |
click song title for lyrics 01.get happy 02.paper moon 03.coucou 04.melody 05.they say it's spring 06.i was a little too lonely (you were a little too late) 07.sing you sinners 08.rhode island is famous for you 09.something's gotta give 10.just one of those things 11.if you a viper 12.thanks for the boogie ride 13.don't worry 'bout me |
 2005 |
With her first official live release, Erin McKeown shows record buyers what her concert-going fans already knew: for sheer energy, unexpected interpretation, and fun, there is no one better! This 6 song EP, recorded and mixed live for radio, features exciting new versions of songs from McKeown's 2005 album, We Will Become Like Birds. Also included is McKeown's interview with KCRW's taste-making DJ Nic Harcourt. |
click song title for lyrics 01.aspera 02.beautiful i guess 03.we are more 04.white city 05.float 06.life on the moon |
 2005 |
What do you do after you've made three critically-acclaimed albums that explore nearly every genre of popular music? What do you do after you've learned how to play all the instruments yourself? If you're Erin McKeown, you make We Will Become Like Birds, the 27-year-old's fourth studio album. It's a work of simple and elegant beauty so original that no one but Erin McKeown could be responsible. |
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 2003 |
Produced,engineered, and mixed by David Chalfant, Grand features Erin playing guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, and singing her little ass off. Joining her are drummers Brian Jones and George Javori and the horn section known only as the Bomb Squad. We've got up, we've got down, so stick it in your car and BLAST IT! |
click song title for lyrics 01.slung-lo 02.cinematic 03.the taste of you 04.born to hum 05.civilians 06.envelopes of glassine 07.how to be a lady 08.a better wife 09.cosmopolitans 10.lucky day 11.an innocent fiction 12.james 13.starlit 14.vera |
 2000 |
Produced, engineered and mixed by David Chalfant, McKeown busts it out on her first studio record- hot jazz, showtunes, electronica! You've never heard the LADY so well recorded! Special guests include Katryna Nields, Beth Amsel and Ben Demerath. |
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SDT: vol.1 is a 15 song collection of McKeown's earliest compositions and performances, including 5 previously un-released songs and 3 never-heard-before 4-track demos. the artwork is handprinted by Erin herself from a linoleum block cut of her own design. |
click song title for lyrics 01.good to see you 02.weight 03.pink elephant 04.good friend martin 05.pride to sell 06.monday morning cold 07.softly moses 08.easy baby 09.my hips 10.lullaby in 3/4 11.something comes 12.fast as i can 13.daisy and prudence 14.blackbirds 15.la petite mort |
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- Uncut Ten years into a dynamic career marked by 7 LPs, 2 EPs and a live concert album, Erin McKeown delivers Hundreds of Lions, her first collection of original songs since 2005’s We Will Become Like Birds.
Although Erin started writing songs while still in high school in hometown Fredericksburg, Virginia, she really began earning her chops while attending Brown University, releasing two albums before graduation and gigging on weekends whenever and wherever possible. She hasn’t slowed down, famously averaging 200 live shows a year. As a multi-instrumentalist, Erin’s become in demand as a session player, recording vocals, piano, bass lines and of course guitar tracks for other artists’ records all while steadily working material that became Hundreds of Lions. At the center of the album, the song “The Lions” brims with bright piano, cathedral spire atmosphere and traces of carnival-noir pop as Erin sings, “There’s a risk, there’s a twist, in anything worth doing,” with a voice clear and strong as glass ribbon. click here to download the rest of Erin's bio click here to download HI-RES press photos |
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In the grand tradition of barn-raisings and house-rent parties, Erin McKeown invites you into her living room, onto her porch, into her river, into her yard and asks you to lend a hand. Just as farmers needed their neighbors to help raise the roof and musicians have sung for their supper, McKeown held a series of Live Internet Concerts in July of 2009 with all proceeds benefitting the recording and release of her newest album, "Hundreds of Lions". The Series is now available for pay-per-view streaming. click here to watch the "Cabin Fever Series" |
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