Jennie DeVoe: Press

"I wanna give a shout out to Jennie DeVoe, one of the most talented and hardest working musicians I know!"

"The only difference between Jennie DeVoe and major label artists is corporate dollars. She is just as talented...and light as a helium-filled-feather."

"Jennie DeVoe is an artist that sings with genuine depth, she's strong and powerful and yet willing to be audaciously vulnerable. Strange Sunshine is a collection of beautifully written songs, expertly produced, performed and presented, and a testament to all she's lived, loved and learned. Jennie DeVoe is unmistakably the real deal and so is Strange Sunshine. This album definitely has achieved that kind of quality we songwriters/musicians can only hope for; it's authentic, it's powerful and it's darn fine writing."

"Jennie DeVoe's voice is smoked honey on a sultry summer evening...smooth, sweet and warm, steeped in the kettle of blues/R&B - but with a rare and wonderful flavor all her own. Only a handful of girls will ever get to sound this good."

"DeVoe's music is truly original and unique to her. She's honest, insightful, quirky, passionate, heart-felt and angst ridden...all the emotions that make her music and life so great!"

"Jennie DeVoe is my area's most talented singer/songwriter and a passionate, dedicated artist whose talents far exceed her exposure so far. It's only a matter of time before everyone knows what we here at WTTS have known for a long time - Jennie's got the "it" factor. All it takes is one listen to know it!"

One of the best albums of the year by any artist, Fireworks & Karate Supplies is a career-defining record for Jennie DeVoe, a remarkable talent. Having been privileged enough to experience Jennie's live shows and witness her audible evolution over the last six years, I am floored by this effort. Jennie is a truly unique vocal talent. I sit dumbfounded at the artistic actualization she's managed to get down on record. The brevity she possesses within her languid, raspy performance is risky, but all the while it seems a natural progression in all its sexy, bluesy, truthful bliss. Her powerhouse voice can stop you in your tracks but it also possesses a sweetness that surges and sears the soul.

DeVoe's voice is a delicious mix of scratchy blues and sweet low notes. Her music is born of a unique marriage of folk and funk. She sprinkles in rhythm and blues sounds and a few well-chosen covers to create a great live show. She also manages to draw the audience in with her anecdotes and personal stories between each song. It's hard to attend one of DeVoe's shows and not feel likeshe's your personal friend by the end of the night. This rare evening was no exception. As the night grew later, DeVoe became indistinguishable from her music. She flowed from one number to the next, weaving crowd favorites with songs she'd never performed outside the studio. Her lyrics are carved from her own experiences, and those who visited The Sanctuary reaped the benefits of her rich life and talented career. With her wild mane and sultry sound, DeVoe always provides her audience with an irresistibly good time.

On the list of my favorite CD titles of the year so far, Indiana native Jennie DeVoe's 4th self-released CD [Fireworkd & Karate Supplies] should be the one that puts her on the map. People tend to like homogenous CDs...not me; I want diversity; something to prove that the artist is no one-trick pony. Rest assured - Jennie's got a lot of tricks up her sleeve.
- CD Review, Art Hell
www.arthell.com

Jennie DeVoe, folk rocker and starlet sensation, blew up the Indy Folk Series kick-off last Saturday night. I was blown away. In a room of nearly a hundred patrons, the sight is spectacular and dually appropriate for the attention that is rightfully owed for lyrical poets like Jennie DeVoe. You could swear that you had stepped back in time to the beatnik era of Ginsberg and Kerouac. DeVoe's voice can make chiseled-chinned men with heavy callused hands sucking cold ones back after a ten hour shift weep, and love-sick tortured poets with hearts of stone and tongues of fire grow daisies from their chests. DeVoe's diamond penned words in songs like "Pale Blue Girl" evoke the kind of classical sexiness of Billie Holiday not to mention her reinvention of the forever young Janis Joplin in "Piece of My Heart". And she does just that - takes a little piece of you just to keep you alive.

One listen to Indianapolis' Jennie DeVoe's fourth and most recent CD, Fireworks & Karate Supplies and you'll wonder why she's not on iPods and FM stations all around the world. Although she doesn't fit the pop-princess mold of today's Top 40, she writes the songs she sings and partly because of that , there is an intensity, maturity and purpose to her work that is missing from much of what we hear today.

There is a quality and strength to her voice and music that touches on Janis Joplin and Sheryl Crow without imitating either. The music has a time capsule feel, written and recorded without any awareness of the flavor-of-the-month Top 40. The resulting music has the timeless charm of Norah Jones, Fleetwood Mac, Joss Stone or Tori Amos.

We look forward to continuing our support of local artists and bringing you some of the best music you may have otherwise never heard.

NUVO Newsweekly 2008 Voters
Best Of Indianapolis Poll:
1. The Cousin Brothers
2. Jennie DeVoe
3. Margot and the Nulear So and Sos