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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!
Eden Brent’s Jigsaw Heart
Mississippi Piano Powerhouse brings her renowned skills and a set of soul-baring new songs to Nashville
Take Eden Brent to a Nashville studio and you’ll still hear the sound of the Mississippi Delta. There’s no way around that. Say you’ve decided to drive from New Orleans to Nashville. Whichever way you go — straight up 55 or heading northeast on 59 — you’re gonna cut across Eden’s home state of Mississippi. And that’s precisely the route Eden’s recording career just took, as her last album — Ain’t Got No Troubles (recorded in New Orleans in 2010) — gives way to her deepest, most personal album yet: Jigsaw Heart, recorded in Nashville but shot through with Eden’s Mississippi roots.
She chose to record this soulful slice of Americana at Ben’s Studio (Ben Folds), formerly the historic RCA Studio A, laying down the tracks live and with minimal isolation. True to life, Eden had to journey through Mississippi to get from New Orleans (the location of her last recording) to Nashville (the site of her new one), stirring up the echoes of her past and reaching out to her stable of longtime friends to create this riveting, reflective new work.