Miss Emily
Kingston - Ontario - Canada
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About the Band
In the 1990’s, 12-year-old Emily Fennell from Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada, got an early education on the power of community. She spent the summer competing in and winning dozens of county fair singing contests. While the other competitors chose standards like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” or “I Will Always Love You,” Emily stunned audiences into silent amazement with K.D. Lang’s version of the Patsy Cline song “Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray.”
That song choice, her spellbinding performance of it, and the venues in which she chose to display her talents, is everything you need to know about the woman who would become Miss Emily. She has a voice that demands your attention, she is never predictable, and she values community more than anything else.
For more than 20 years she has channeled those principles in her songwriting and performance, never shying away from an open conversation with her audience about the struggles she has faced. Whether it was misogynistic encounters with old-school promoters, domestic violence, or being a musical road-warrior and a single mother at the same time, Emily has always opened her heart in a communal invitation to share, heal and celebrate.
During the writing process for her upcoming album that commitment was tested. “I wasn’t in a great head space,” she acknowledged, her voice cracking under the emotional weight of the memory. “Like so many of us, sometimes life brings you down. In one of my darker moments, I wrote an angry song. Then, as I continued prepping the songs, I realized I did not want anger to be a prominent theme on my new album. I wanted to celebrate community and record music that made people feel better.”
Discography
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The Medicine
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| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Freedom | Acoustic Blues | Blues |
| 2 | Stand Together, Band Together | Acoustic Blues | Blues |
| 3 | The Medicine | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 4 | Maybe | Contemporary Blues | Blues |
| 5 | You Make Believe | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 6 | Running Again | Contemporary Blues | Blues |
| 7 | Solid Ground | Americana Country | Country |
| 8 | Smith's Bay Drowning | Traditional Folk | Folk |
| 9 | Remember This Song | Electric Blues | Blues |
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Defined by Love
Label: Self-Release
Genres: Blues
Styles: Soul Blues, Blues
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Defined by Love | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 2 | Silver Lining | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 3 | Glory | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 4 | This Road | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 5 | Respect Your Mother | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 6 | One Song Left | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 7 | Just | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 8 | Make It Rain | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 9 | Friends, Lovers, Foes | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 10 | Three Words | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 11 | To the End of the World | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 12 | The Keeper | Soul Blues | Blues |
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LIVE at the Isabel
Label: Self-Release
Genres: Blues
Styles: Soul Blues, Blues
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes It's Better to Lose (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 2 | Land of Greed (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 3 | Who is He (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 4 | Three Words (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 5 | The Letter (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 6 | Blue is Still Blue (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 7 | Dear CBC (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 8 | The Sellout (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 9 | Long Time Running (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 10 | Cry to Me (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 11 | My Friend (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 12 | No (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 13 | It Must Have Been Love (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 14 | Beautiful You (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 15 | Hold Back the River (Live) | Soul Blues | Blues |
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In Between
Label: Self-Release
Genres: Blues
Styles: Blues, Soul Blues
Songs on the Album
| Track # | Song Title | Style | Genre |
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| 1 | Hold Back the River (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 2 | Land of Greed (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 3 | Instead of You (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 4 | And You (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 5 | In Between (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 6 | You Win (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 7 | Fire, Fire, Fire (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 8 | Sometimes It's Better to Lose (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 9 | My Friend (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 10 | Make Believe (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |
| 11 | What Was Mine (feat. Gord Sinclair & Rob Baker) | Soul Blues | Blues |