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Jenny Tolman (USA)

‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ is a great album by Jenny who was hailed by Sound Opinions as a “storyteller par excellence. A member of a high-class, white trash welcoming committee, an observant woman who sees other people on her own fictitious block through a humorous, surface-scraping veneer”. Jenny conveys her songs with “the sass of Nikki Lane mixed with the clever wordplay of Brandy Clark,” according to Rolling Stone.

Jenny grew up in Nashville, the daughter of a talent buyer who started in music as a member of a barbershop quartet, the Indian River Boys. Interacting as a concert professional with the likes of Garth Brooks, Vince Gill and The Oak Ridge Boys.

Building the album as a cast of characters allowed Jenny to inject pieces of her own personality into each storyline without making it entirely autobiographical. She casts the other women’s eccentricities with stark humour, then takes a deep dive into the dark corners of her own self-doubt.

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