Jill Hennessey sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on May 16th, 2018. For more info visit: http://jillhennessy.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin
Setlist:
Edmonton
I Do
Falling Down
10,000 Miles
I Do is primarily a collection of stories about love and relationships – the beauty and the pain and the sacrifice between any two people in love… be it husband/wife, mother/child or child/parent. I Do explores the beauty and struggles of marriage, while many other songs (Marsha G, Aimee, Digging My Own Grave, Cross the River and Heaven) deal with the seismic upheaval and pain of losing that love. The beauty lies in finding faith in something invisible that can sustain us and remaining hopeful that love never fades away… it always endures. Edmonton explores the sacrifices made by every immigrant leaving their homeland to find a better life and future for their family.
“I LOVE YOU IS NOT SO SIMPLE… BUT I DO”
Jill wrote all the songs for her second album, I Do, in 2011 and 2012 and produced/recorded the album in Austin, TX. I Do features many of the musicians from the first album: Robbie Gjersoe, Bukka Allen, Brian Standefer and Glenn Fukunaga, with the stellar addition of Kym Warner, mandolin (The Green Cards), Will Sexton, guitars and the legendary Dony Wynn (Robert Palmer) on drums. I Do is more percussively oriented and focused on themes of transition, loss and growth. Mixed by the “bullet-proof” Sean Beaven (Guns N’ Roses, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails), it continues and progresses both lyrically and sonically from where Ghost In My Head left off. At I Do’s heart is the ability to find hope and love despite struggle and loss.
Walter Price from Global Texan Chronicles wrote, “I Do is one of best albums of 2015. The power in this album is the songwriter’s experiences laid out in depths and realism that many artists work full careers or even lifetimes trying to achieve. This album forgoes arrogance deciding instead to focus on not just the stellar construction of the songs and subsequently the full album but to let honesty work its gritty magic. I Do is an important album for humans who feel and are trying to work through what they are living.”
Dave Marsh from Sirius XM Radio wrote, “Jill’s raised her own standard, and delivered completely on things that were maybe only a promise on the first record. I couldn’t be happier for her… and for me. What a relief to find this gem of an album who’s living and breathing… Stronger than the first one in a whole bunch of ways, really builds her a fortress to sing from, and the insights in the songs are as deep and beautiful as always. Brava!”
Greg Calbi from Sterling Sound wrote, “Jill’s album is the kind of record we all love, but get so little of these days. Intimate and powerful vocals, head-jogging lyrics and a killer band. Jill is most obviously a musician who acts, not an actress who has a band. Furthermore, this album was recorded and mixed so expertly and carefully that the intensity of her impressive band never obscures the vocals. Any drummers hearing this record will truly de drooling.”
