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Eden Brent Debuts new “Jigsaw Heart” Video
Telling a tale of broken hearts and fresh starts, Eden’s new video arrives with perfect timing: on Valentine’s Day.
Eden Brent has already earned a heap of praise for her latest album Jigsaw Heart: two Blues Music Award nominations (including Acoustic Album of the Year), several months on the blues radio charts and rapturous quotes like “It smoked a hole in our soul” (Blues Music Magazine). She’s about to do the same with her brand-new video for the album’s title track, a beautiful little film mostly shot in front of the church at Mont Helena, a 19th-century plantation home near Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
The video was produced by Mississippi filmmaker Robbie Fisher, creator of the award-winning documentaries “Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound” and “Delta 180: Changing Lives in the Mississippi Delta,”- and was directed by Aaron Phillips, also a Mississippian.- Mississippi actors and musicians star alongside Eden in the Jigsaw Heart video, too, making this a Magnolia State affair from top to bottom.
Love, like everything else on Earth, is impermanent. That old church still standing in Eden’s new video? “It collapsed, three months after we shot the video,” says Eden. Watch her soul-stirring new video (and probably the last footage of that old Mississippi church as it premieres today on The Boot.
Eden Brent Completes Hat Trick of BMA “Best Album” Nominations
Also Adds Another “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year” Nomination to her C.V.
For the third time in a row (how many artists can claim THAT?), Eden Brent has released an album that’s earned a Blues Music Award “best album” nomination. Previously, Mississippi Number One earned an Acoustic Album of the Year win, then Ain’t Got No Troubles was nominated for Album of the Year. Now, her sparkling new Jigsaw Heart has once again earned her an Acoustic Album of the Year nomination.
Eden’s proven herself in the scene as a triple threat: piano master, soulful singer and superb songwriter. This is a good time, though, to underscore just how much acclaim she’s gotten for her piano skills alone. This is the fifth time in the last seven years that she’s earned a “Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year” nomination from the BMAs — and there are a lot of great piano players out there! Congratulations, Eden.
The Claudettes on Sound Opinions
The Claudettes were eating a vegan breakfast (despite the omnivorous protests of at least one of the members) in a Michigan cafe when the text messages starting coming in: they were currently being featured on Sound Opinions. Hosted by renowned music critics Gret Kot and Jim DeRogatis, “The World’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Talk Show” is heard on NPR stations all around the country each week.
Infernal Piano Plot…Hatched was picked by Kot as one of his “Buried Treasures” of the year — albums that might be flying under the radar but deserve more attention.- Miss Claudette was thrilled at Kot’s praise of her band and his chronicle of her business operations, too. Thank you, Sound Opinions!