UPHILL BOTH WAYS is the sixth studio album to come from this NYC based songwriter...after a two-year hiatus from recording in NYC, Jenn Lindsay returns to the biz with a broken heart, road stories, and the best album yet.
Jenn Lindsay plays music for the jobless, the brave, and the indignant. She was named by GO NYC Magazine as "an artist carrying the torch for music into the 21st Century," alongside powerhouse band Sleater-Kinney. She has a degree in playwriting from Stanford University and recently dropped out of the Yale School of Drama. Her music is "a powerful call-to-arms for struggling urban artists everywhere" (Suite 101) and she's "a talent to be reckoned with" (Splendid). Her music is featured on MTV and on compilation albums put out by the ACLU and SBS Records.
Jenn Lindsay's sixth and seventh studio albums, Uphill Both Ways and Perfect Handful, were both financed entirely by her fans. Uphill Both Ways is a declaration of independence, a love letter, a primal scream, and a homecoming announcement (back to music and back to NYC). It's a pageant of change, growing up, grief, and the little things that get us out of bed in the morning. Jenn Lindsay works indie all the way, recording out of a tiny apartment in Manhattan where the drum kit rests on a bedspread, the microphone pop filter is a sock stretched over a coat hanger, and percussion sounds include apples and a pen dragged over the wire of a spiral notebook. To keep costs down on her albums Uphill Both Ways and Perfect Handful, Jenn Lindsay learned to play as many instruments as she could: the guitar, piano, banjo, baritone ukulele, mandolin, drums, keyboard, xylophone and harmonica. The most difficult (no joke) was the tambourine.
