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And what came after....

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UK born Jessica Blake grew up in the US on an Indian Reservation in Florida. It was during these early years that she absorbed her most important musical influences: country and southern rock. She moved to California in her early twenties and toured the US, playing as much as she could from LA’s House of Blues to a bowling alley in Boise, Idaho. And as she toured she traded Native American jewelry. Four years ago she returned to London to open Jessie Western, a southwestern lifestyle store on Portobello Road. This she runs with her sister, Vicky, using it as a base to spread her love of all things southwestern.
Jessica’s voice separates her from the multitude of fragile waifs (both sexes) populating contemporary rock and country. She spurns close-up mic breathiness and the autotune culture of modern production in favour of a strident live sound to reflect her shows. And some shows they are! People walk away finding it hard to believe someone so compact can make all that big sound.
As a songwriter Jessica keeps it simple, which as anyone who’s composed music knows, is the hardest thing to do. Don’t listen to this music if you’re expecting a world of wry ironies; there are none here. This is honest stuff and straight from the heart and all the stronger for it.
‘Three GoodReasons’ is Jessica’s second album on Puffafish Records.