The title of Jenny Owen Youngs’ Tumblr blog page reads, “Oh hey, I didn’t see you there. Hello. My name is Jenny and I write songs, record stuff, go on tour, and have tons of girl-feelings…sometimes all at once. Whee.”
Sounds about right. Her first record, Batten The Hatches, was self-released in 2005 before Nettwerk re-released [...]

South By Southwest (SXSW) took place March 17 through 20, 2010. It’s a yearly event that has something for everyone! Are you interested in the latest developments in technology and gaming? Perhaps you’d like to see a movie premiere and meet Quentin Tarantino? Would you rather soak in every musical style under the sun? I [...]

Following fresh in the tracks of her 2007 debut Batten the Hatches (which earned Youngs a record deal with Nettwerk and a song on the popular TV series “Weeds,” among other highlights), Jenny Owen Youngs’ newest release Transmitter Failure begins with a knowing nod to the past — in the ukulele, double bass, and jaunty [...]

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Unless you’re well-versed in Mother Goose, you’re probably like me and you’ve never heard the nursery rhyme of the bell horses. Long before people and goods were transported by car and diesel trucks along major highways, horses pulled wagons along narrow roads. And before there were headlights, the only thing that could prevent passing wagons [...]