JENN LINDSAY: Gotta Lotta

Jenn Lindsay

Gotta Lotta

© 2002 Jennifer Lindsay and No Evil Star Records (634479347726)

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NYC-based antifolk with applied silliness; The Joni Mitchell of antifolk, who, incidentally, doesn't take herself too seriously.

tracks

1 Red Shirt
2 Fangs and Fur
3 Olly Olly Oxen Free
4 Athena
5 I Am Not Going Home Yet
6 Three Sparrows Four
7 I Call Myself a Flower
8 Salvation Army
9 I Stayed Home Today
10 Song That Mama Sings
11 Tower of Toys
12 Retrospective: in Out in Out
13 Gotta Lotta

notes

Other Jenn Lindsay releases:
THE LAST NEW YORK HORN, www.cdbaby.com/jennlindsay5,
FIRED, www.cdbaby.com/jennlindsay4
THE STORY OF WHAT WORKS, www.cdbaby.com/jennlindsay2
BRING IT ON, www.cdbaby.com/jennlindsay

"If Jenn Lindsay's songs got the recognition they deserved, New York would be one receptionist short and the folk world would be one star richer" Nicky Rossiter, RAMBLES

When Jenn Lindsay played a women's music festival last year in Santa Cruz, CA, the 400-person audience was on their feet several times for good reason. In her 3-year involvement playing on New York City's underground folk circuit, Lindsay's music has ignited a substantial east coast following. She's just finished her fifth album, THE LAST NEW YORK HORN, and is touring nationally in support of it and her happy transient art-life.

Jenn's musical community is the NYC Antifolk scene, a hub of musicians based in the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe, who share a mutual distaste for mediocre, well-packaged mainstream music.

Read more at www.jennlindsay.com

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  • Jenn sang three songs that continued to play in my head after her performance.
    author: Patrica Woody

    My three favorite songs on the Gotta Latta CD are: I Am Not Going Home Yet, Olly Olly Oxen Free and Song That Mama Sings. I felt I had to have Jenn's CD after hearing her perform the songs at a production of Vagina Monologue.

  • gives me chills
    author: jon berger

    Last night was a birthday celebration for Phoebe Kreutz and Jenn Lindsay. It was at the Sidewalk Cafe, which isn't really that surprising. It was also Jenn Lindsay's last show as a citizen of the City, which is a bit more of a shock. After coming onto the scene maybe two years ago with a kickass song, "Not Going Home," she's going home to California. "New York's kinda beaten me around," she said, "I just need to spend some time, recouping, relaxing... New York's expensive." She'd said she didn't want to sound defeated, wanted to think of it as a step up. Since her announcement was that she was moving somewhere cheaper so she could afford to tour more, she's already got a good spin on it. Unfortunately, her best song continues to be her anthem to independence, about moving to the big city and staying put. She did it last night with Casey Holford, her boyfriend and former roommate, and the song continues to give me chills. But when she said, "I always thought I was stronger than that... I'm not going home... yet," it was understandably hollow. I don't know if the song should stay in her set. Of course, if she's playing west coast shows, I don't know if it can stay in her set. The debate rages.

  • new and original
    author: The Independent Reviews Site

    Ah, the young woman moves to the big city to become a star, and finds that life is not so glamourous there. On this self-released disc, Jenn Lindsay tells this story one more time, but makes it new and original. Two things make Lindsay's story-songs work. One is her attention to detail. Things like saltine crackers for dinner and not having even subway fare give a deep reality to her tales. The cold, desperation and loneliness of poverty really come through here. The second talent Lindsay has is to turn those details into catchy little tunes, which make one want to sing along. This is exemplified by "Salvation Army", where the challenges of thrift store shopping are summed up in the chorus "No one had my ass/ No one had my belly." Lindsay also has an deep understanding of the loneliness of the quest. Not just the loneliness of leaving behind your friends and making it on your own, but the inherent loneliness of the artistic quest. The times when the artist would rather be alone, needs the solitude. Overall, the feeling of "Gotta Lotta," despite the surface despair of the lyrics, is one of resolution and hopefulness. Lindsay believes her quest is worth the temporary setbacks, and in the end it will all work out. --G. Murray Thomas

  • don't be fooled
    author: Portland Mercury

    NYC ANTIFOLK TOUR: JENN LINDSAY, CASEY HOLFORD, ROBIN AIGNER, PHOEBE KREUTZ (Bitter End, 1981 W Burnside) Don't be fooled by this event's clever title--it's as folk as it gets this day and age; a glut of passionate poets picking their acoustic guitars and doing that funky scat dance with the head jerking around and the elbows flailing. Make no mistake about it: the ghosts of Ani, Joni, and Bob haunt this thing. Those three ancient figures are also the only ones making any money in this field anymore, which is kind of a shame considering the musical talent on display here, especially in Jenn Lindsay's plucky, stop-start guitar work, is impressive. If only anyone in the group had a speck of melody, irony, or bling to go with the ability. As dictated by the style they've chosen, however, they don't, and so it's coffee shops and Bitter Ends from here on out. JWS

  • from Niki Sullivan, managing editor
    author: Oregon State U "Barometer"

    Like an MTV2 version of Friends, the four antifolk singers assemble for a photo shoot, looking like they've just stepped out of Urban Outfitters. Casey Holford, Jenn Lindsay, Robin Aigner and Phoebe Kreutz, soloists from New York, are currently traversing the West Coast as part of their Public Approval Tour. April 17 marks their tour date at OSU, courtesy of the Women's Center. Refreshingly genuine, these four are definitely not part of the pervasive pseudo-hip alternative wannabes. They wouldn't be caught with a stylist -- they don't need help being eclectic chic -- and they wouldn't be honored by being dubbed "catchy." On the contrary, originality, not catchy familiarity, berthed the antifolk movement in New York. Back in the mid-80s, the New York folk scene that nurtured Bob Dylan 20 years earlier was invaded. Like locusts, a rush of imitators overtook the scene, trading folk's stark originality for the safety of emulating established artists. Thus, any artist with a degree of edginess or political cognizance was ousted. Nearly 20 years later, Holford and company hit the scene, striking up a friendship at the Sidewalk Cafe, an antifolk-friendly venue. With a smooth, sensitive vocals, Holford's intimate songs are saturated with honesty. He draws inspiration from the widest of horizons and chose antifolk because, "it's the most community-driven, intensely creative and prolific movement I've ever been a part of." Lindsay has a crystalline quality about her -- a fragile veil of a voice spouting crisp lyrical stories. She's adhered to the painful honesty that has always been a part of folk music, most recently in Fired, her newly finished album. "I speak, and write and sing from my own experience; my anger and my love are all my own," Lindsay said, of trying to make original music in an era when critics lump artists together as an easy way to escape actually describing the sound. "I guess people just need a reference point," she said. Kreutz is a hilarious songstress, demonstrating the broad-base and sense of humor inherent to the genre. Citing Tiny Tim as inspiration, she sings about wanting to be a pirate, falling in love with a Taco Bell worker (specifically Gary) and a less-than faithful boyfriend. Being funny doesn't render her exempt from quality songwriting, though. Her father was a musician, so she would feel guilty using a "cheap lyric." "It's like smoking or something. I'd be embarrassed if he caught me rhyming 'girl' and 'world.'" On the other end of the spectrum, Aigner is intimate and compelling with her smooth songs that carry original and endearing western overtones rooted in folk. She wasn't available for comment, presumably because of her busy schedule. After this tour wraps up, she plans to tour the southwest this summer. What can you expect from a show of artists from an undefinable anti-genre? According to Casey, "expect possibly dissonant four-part harmony, slapstick, bad knock-knock jokes, singalongs, choreography, 'rhythm eggs,' hollering and wailing and good songs." Niki Sullivan is the managing editor for The Daily Barometer. She can be reached at 737-2231 or baro.campus@studentmedia.orst.edu.

  • author: Sign On San Diego

    The Public Approval Tour  These four anti-folk songwriters from New York sing songs about love, war, unemployment and Vikings. Where:   Twiggs Bakery & Coffee House, 4659 Park Boulevard, San Diego,  CA, When:   April 25-26, 8 p.m. Price:   $10. Information: (619) 296-0616. Event Profile: Out now on their West Coast first tour, these four independent, solo singer/songwriters - Casey Holford, Jenn Lindsay, Phoebe Kreutz, and Robin Aigner - subscribe to the "anti-folk" movement, each playing acoustic guitar injected with punk ethics and politically charged songwriting (think Bob Dylan meets The Clash). Putting out their own records and playing frequently in coffee shops and universities in and around New York City, all four highly talented artists will no doubt delight ears here in San Diego during their two-night performance at Twiggs. Jenn Lindsay: On one of her songs, San Diego native Jenn Lindsay sings about how she will be compared to fellow anti-folkster, Ani Difranco. While Difranco's influence is present, Lindsay creates her own sound that is both delicate and tough, juxtaposing gentle yet strong vocals with stark urban imagery and themes.

  • Jenn Lindsay is an infamous folk rocker in NYC
    author: GO NYC Magazine
  • Village Voice (NYC Weekly)
    author: Shawn Bosler

    Hardworking 23-year-old antifolker Lindsay philosophizes on love, makin' it, being an artist-dreamer transplant to NYC, 9-11, the feminist viewpoint, and anxiety; her new self-released CD, Gotta Lotta, is bubbling over with a playful (sometimes) spastic poppiness.

  • you can learn more from listening to this CD than in one year of attending almos
    author: Muse's Muse: David Lockeretz

    With touches of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Woodie Guthrie, Shel Silverstein and more, "Gotta Lotta" proves that Jenn Lindsay is that rare musician who can show that they have absorbed the influence of the past while creating something fresh and original. Jenn Lindsay's strength is in her ability to observe and articulate. She sings about the ups and downs of every day life. While her songs have a definite New York feel to them, beneath the cynicism, irony and dark humor there is a certain melancholy. She is not just singing about moving from San Diego to New York; she is singing about leaving things behind and moving forward. Jenn Lindsay can complain with the best of them. The feministic rhetoric of "Olly Olly Oxen Free" addresses gender relations with humor and insight, showing that seemingly casual remarks can have more effect than one might think. In "I Am Not Going Home Yet" she provides a laundry list of the hardships of urban life in modern times, from high rents to idiot bosses, but ultimately concludes, "It takes pain to get something good...you really gotta want it if you want anything good." And that is what truly sets this CD apart: For all the criticisms Lindsay might have, she realizes that ultimately it's up to the individual to make their own life work. Musically, the CD is strong as well; Lindsay has a unique sounding voice which is recorded to sound very close to the listener, almost as if she is in the same room. Her grasp of harmony is strong, and the words and melodies fit well. I think the next step for Lindsay is to hook up with top-level musicians, the way Joni Mitchell did, and to tighten the structure of some of her songs. For example, even though I enjoyed "I Am Not Going Home Yet" in some ways it felt like two or more songs, with all of the ideas being expressed. Compositionally, some of the longer songs get a little repetitive. These are minor points; I see Lindsay as an up and coming artist who will only get better. I sincerely hope that some record company picks her up, because you can learn more from listening to this CD than in one year of attending almost any public school in the country. For more information about Jenn Lindsay, visit www.jennlindsay.com.

  • Straightforward strength
    author: Indie-Music
  • One of the top 10 albums of 2002
    author: www.neatness.com
  • Jenn Lindsay really hits her mark....
    author: Village Voice (Aber)
  • author: Nicky Rossiter of RAMBLES

    Jenn Lindsay is a new name and voice to me. From the publicity I gather that she is a receptionist and has busked the New York City subway system to finance this CD. She styles herself as Joni Mitchell with a dash of Ani DiFranco. She is definitely folk with a truckload of attitude and perhaps that's what folk needs. The lyrics are certainly fresh and there is a great deal of wit in among the strong words that Jenn uses to express herself. "Olly Olly Oxen Free" gives an idea of the stylish titles here. The lyrics are definitely new and of the modern world about men who "blow horns and pee" and life in the big city -- "I turned 45 when I turned 15." This is not a CD to buy as a Christmas gift for that maiden aunt -- but then again maybe this is how she thinks, too. "Athena" is another excellent track that is sung with feeling such as only a singer-songwriter can do. "I'm Not Going Home Yet" is a nice antidote to a lot of what was written in the aftermath of Sept. 11 for people living in the real world: "Things that matter on September 10th still matter like paying the rent." Jenn Lindsay will either scare everyone from moving to the big city or she will encourage every young rebel out there to get urbanized. "I Call Myself a Flower" is so atypical of her other songs it jars. It is a naive song of a young girl in love. But it is also a very good track. "Salvation Army" is the only track not written by the singer. It laments such things as all the clothes in the thrift store were designed for much thinner girls. The writer makes a fantastic saga out of what most people see as a shop filled with old clothes. Jenn sings it with heart and fervour. Jenn Lindsay is a scary singer; I would love to see her perform live but would be afraid of her picking on audience members who do not sing along. She brings a new raw edge to folk that Dylan and Baez brought to the scene in the 1960s. She looks sacred cows in the eye and does not blink. Her language is that of the street, of the people rather than of the radio and TV censor and her music benefits from it. But she can also offer the gentle song and if some of these were given the exposure that they deserve New York would be one receptionist short but the folk world would be one star richer. In order to avoid offence this CD should carry a parental advisory; some of the language may offend although it is sung in context and adds realism to the voice of a great performer. Keep going Jenn; you have the guts to make it and the talent to sustain it. If you dare, check out her home page.

  • #1 Recording Artist of 2002!
    author: Dan Herman of RADIO CRYSTAL BLUE

    GOTTA LOTTA is the best album slated for airplay on my radio station (Radio Crystal Blue) for its eclecticism and songwriting. Jenn is also the #1 NYC Antifolk Musician 2002 and most-played artist on my rotating format.

  • author: Ring and Run (Amanda)

    I just wanted to let you know i LOVED your performance at Pussypower and love the c.d. just as much.  You stray from the stereotypical "girl and guitar" deal. I think i could listen to fangs and fur at least 73 times in a row :)  I have a dog that wakes me up with her snores religiously.  I'm sure you've gotten nothing but pos. feedback but i figured you could make time for another fan's babble.  My band is no longer together but i want to try to do my own stuff so you were 1. inspiring b.intimidating and 3. all together humbling I wish you nothing but the best.  Good luck and may the force be with you :)                                     Amanda

  • author: David Pyles of ACOUSTIC MUSIC

    "Vocally she reminds me of Christine Lavin about 20 years ago.  Her in-your-face songs are intelligent, funny, poignant.  They're wonderful social commentary.  This album is just the grrl and her guitar.  It's all about the lyrics here and they are FINE!!"

  • author: Nan Turner

    Jenn Lindsey is a fierce heroine.  Her song, "I'm not going home yet" describes perfectly my first six months in New York City. I remember trying to get a job and going to acting school and trying to get the band together and crying on the subway and feeling like I was never going to accomplish what I wanted to cause I had so far to go and in the meantime I was really hungry and wanted someone to take me out for a nice dinner. I was listening to Gotta Lotta on my headphones going to practice drums yesterday, and I realized what it is I like about Jenn's songs.  Many of them seem to have a tone of hopefulness despite difficult circumstances. "I'm not going home yet" delivers a mantra of endurance & love for yourself and your art, despite all the lonliness, poverty and sadness that can make doing your art a challenge. Her show at Sidewalk was one of her best yet, packed to the gills with people craning their necks to get a peek at she and her entourage (including Casey Holford, Knot Pinebox, Robin Aigner, bassist Sheila Sobolewski, Crystal of The Baby Skins, and a hip hop beatbox player called John Mackenflow Wright).  The addition of other musicians and voices were a nice variation on her songs, though Jenn can rock it as a solo act too. I saw her do an event called "Pussy Power" where the audience was just transfixed, leaning on her every word. Congrats to you Jenn, on a great CD and release party!

  • author: Outsight

    "The back-to-school season brings a new crop of female singer-songwriters for enlivening drab dorms or making late-night homework sessions more bearable. Number one material Jenn Lindsay hails from the NYC anti-folk scene. Her record Gotta Lotta (No Evil Star) is for those that like their acoustic singer-songwriter unpretentious, honest and daringly non-cute. Think early Ani DiFranco crossed with Lach… " --Thomas Tearaway Schulte

  • author: Splendid

    It's hard to tell whether time works for or against Gotta Lotta. It's passionate, modern folk music, with well-written songs full of catchy melodies and introspective, insightful lyrics. Even more importantly, Jenn Lindsay has the right kind of voice for it; her vocal inflections call to mind seasoned artists like Joni Mitchell. Why, then, is it hard to tell whether time works for Gotta Lotta? Because, really, it comes about five years too late. If the album had arrived at the height of the Lilith Fair boom, Lindsay could well have been hailed as one of that movement's breakout stars. As it stands, with Sarah McLachlan on seemingly endless hiatus and artists like Paula Cole and Joan Osborne lining the bargain bins of music stores everywhere, Lindsay will have to fight for every bit of radio airplay she can get. Then again, perhaps Gotta Lotta's timing is perfect. After all, if the album had come out when female singer-songwriters were all the rage, Lindsay would have been seen as another in a seemingly endless stream of marginally talented coattail riders. Instead, she gets to compete against male-dominated rock music (be it of the rap or garage variety), and against such standards, it's a lot easier to see Gotta Lotta's ample merits. Lindsay's songwriting range is impressive, ranging from effortlessly bouncy ("Three Sparrows Four" and "I Call Myself A Flower") to beautifully melancholic ("I Stayed Home Today"), and, of course, songs that fit somewhere between those two extremes ("Song That Mama Sings"). But it's on "I Am Not Going Home Yet" that Lindsay establishes herself as a talent to be reckoned with. Yes, it's a September 11th song -- but unlike a lot of the art inspired by that day, this is a piece of music first and foremost, and a "statement" a very distant second (if at all). It clocks in at well over six minutes, and deals not just with the terrorist attacks but also with New York City and the confusion of modern life, yet it somehow works. In large part, it may just be because of its length -- it rambles, but it genuinely sounds like Lindsay is trying to convey the disjointed thoughts she felt on that day. It's far easier to relate to something like this than to the black-and-white terms to which many artists have tried to reduce the experience. Given that Gotta Lotta's recording was financed by money Lindsay earned busking the streets of New York City, it's obvious that many others have also found her music easy to relate to. This, the sense that an artist is verbalizing how you feel at that moment, is really all that matters in an album, regardless of whether it emerges at the right moment in music history. -- Matthew Pollesel

  • What's not to like?!
    author: Indie Music Reviews

    Artist: Jenn Lindsay CD: Gotta Lotta Home: New York City Style: singer-songwriter By Les Reynolds Jenn Lindsay is a New York City-based singer-songwriter with a lotta something to say. Even better, she always finds an interesting, attention-getting way to say it. The 13 tunes on her new release "Gotta Lotta" are energetically and confidently conveyed by Jenn's elastic and expressive soprano. Whether pushing the envelope or retreating into something softer, the vocals remain very sweet. Lyrically, well, much of it sounds as if it could be autobiographical (although it's never safe to make a blanket assumption). There are references to being poor, hungry, stuff that happens in the music biz -- some of it quite poignant, too. (If it helps here, Jenn is a San Diego transplant.) The tunes themselves speak volumes: The opener "Red Shirt," which also includes some nice acoustic guitar stylings and nice harmony vocals (liner notes mention Casey Holford on 12-string and vocals), is a nice tune: "Smart and poor don't go so far Downtown floats around... Hold me close I don't want to leave you But I'm too long from home... Hand me that red shirt I showed ya ...I don't belong here... ...New York's cold It's fierce, freezin' cold My heart's being told and told... I've seen worse and this ain't nothin.' I know i can breathe through pudding..." And while Jenn's voice is really nice, the next cut, "Fangs and Fur," brings out a tiny little scratch in her voice which somehow makes it even nicer. And the melody actually borders on cute. Fifth on the list is "I Am Not Going Home Yet." THIS is the one that sounds like a NYC musician who is dead set on making it. It's almost like a soft "rant" with a bit of urgency in the voice and in the strumming: "Mom called the morning of the latest plane.. and said 'Why don't you just come home... It's quiet here, you won't pay no rent. You're so hungry, it'll kill ya dead.' And later in the sway of the subway car ...I look at the faces that made it this far... folks with babies and jobs and cars... and i think that I Can't Go Home Yet. ...I've been in New York about seven months. I've seen a life worth of crazy stuff Like the things that mattered on Sept. 10 Things that still matter like payin' the rent..." And it goes like that throughout the CD -- just one clever song after another. "I Stayed Home Today," is yet another tune with some not-so-subtle undertones of having a rough time. Then it borders on morbid. "...My roommates are in Italy The apartment is empty. Maybe they won't come back. Maybe their plane will crash, And ill have to get over that..." Then, things look a bit better... "...Maybe I should learn to deal with people, because that's what's real. I'm good at being alone..." There is some hope though -- "...Now my food is on the stove And I am right here all alone Happy to be on my own. I'll paint a chair, unplug the phone Think of ways I've lost and won Been one boy away from doin' somthing dumb... Happy to be on my own... Listen to Rufus Wainwright straight to daylight..." Then, to show her quirky sense of humor, there's "Retrospective. In Out In Out" -- a really strange backward masking tune with some chuckling and voice over (hers) sprinkled throughout...(even her laugh is cute) Basically, it seems Jenn Lindsay shouldn't be having a tough time by any stretch. After all, what's not to like?

  • Highly recommended
    author: Muse's Muse

    Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jenn Lindsay was raised in England by wolves. That is, if you believe her website. And if you believe her lyrics, she's a poor struggling artist desperately trying to make it in the Big City while living on saltine crackers and dodging bill collectors. (But hey, aren't we all?) Originally from San Diego, Jenn's played in pubs from the UK to the San Francisco Bay area. Now based in Brooklyn, she diligently labors to build an anti-folk fan base in the NYC area, which by her own admission is as easy as nailing Jello to a tree. Jenn is not only a musician, she is an activist as well. She's lent her talents on several occasions to support causes involving feminist, lesbian/gay/bisexual and domestic violence issues. Jenn's music conveys a very strong sense of imagery, reminding me very much of Michelle Shocked. When she sings you can almost smell the stench in the subways and feel the grime of the city in the air. My personal recommendations are: --"I'm Not Going Home Yet", an anthem for all those who have moved far away to the Big City to make it on their own, --"4 Million Dollars In My Shoe", highly recommended to anyone who has ever formed a close personal relationship with a bill collector, and... --"Got My Baby", a tongue-in-cheek portrait of Jenn's truest love. Jenn's newest CD, Gotta Lotta, was just released last month.

  • a riveting presence!!
    author: Stanford University LGBCRC

    Jenn Lindsay rocks...what an electrifying performer!!--Ben Davidson, Executive Director of the Stanford LGBCRC

  • Funny, charming, poignant, and overall intelligent stuff!
    author: Femmusic
  • honest, sardonic, true indie!
    author: Delusions of Adequacy

    In the true indie sense, Jenn Lindsay has made a lot of fans while doing just about everything herself. She financed this album by playing guitar and singing in the New York City subway, and her receptionist job helped with the cover art printing (and office supplies, of course). In fact, her biggest help - beyond fan support of course - was from Major Matt Mason USA, who produced the album. As an important figure in the New York antifolk scene and owner of Olive Juice Music, Mason's name may lend the album weight and get more out of Lindsay's sound, but the music here is all Lindsay. You've heard female singer/songwriters before, and there's not much here besides Lindsay's voice and acoustic guitar. As a transplant to New York City's antifolk scene, Lindsay fits right in, playing songs that are at times biting and sardonic, at other times lighthearted and playful. Most of all, her music is sincere and honest, and you get the sense that she loves what she's doing with all her heart, which goes a long way to making this album more accessible and enjoyable. The opener "Red Shirt," is a lovely song, light and sweet sounding, with Lindsay singing sweetly "hold me close." Her catchiest song, "Olly Olly Oxen Free" will have you singing along, as her voice blends nicely with her music, sounding akin to Joni Mitchell many times. When she speeds up a bit, telling her stories in songs like the impressive and rebellious "I Am Not Going Home Yet," her music feels a bit more like Ani Difranco and takes on more intensity. She fills out "I Call Myself a Flower" with keyboard, giving the song a more playful, kaleidoscope feel, while some nice vocal effects fill out the sweet sounding "I Stayed Home Today." The very quiet "Tower of Toys" feels very honest, very powerful due to Lindsay's singing and some soft strings. If you've had it up to your ears with acoustic singer/songwriters, you're not going to like Lindsay much more, but her music has an undeniably sincere and honest approach, which goes a long way in my book. These songs are very well performed and produced, and the music is charming and sweet while still being sarcastic and introspective at times. It makes for a fine album. - Jeff, 9/23/02

  • INCREDIBLE CD
    author: www.coolgrrrls.com

    $$$$ Wow I don't even know where to start with this CD. It is folk music in its finest form produced by one of the most ambitious self made women I've ever come across. She is both inspiring and talented. Jenn Lindsay is someone with an unquenchable fire for what she does that comes out in her music. She passes the torch of her words along to her fans. She sings about issues of substance but also maintains a frivolity in her music that leaves those listening to her for pure entertainment value satisfied. I always used to think that folk music was for children of the sixties but thanks to Jenn Lindsay I now know it can be enjoyable for people of any age. This CD definitely stands out to me and makes major label CDs look like sonic Gap ads in comparison. To quote one of Jenn's songs "you really gotta want it if you want anything good." She obviously has the desire and as a result, Gotta Lotta is an amazing album, worth all the blood, sweat and tears. Good things will come Jenn Lindsay. She has all the qualities she needs: talent, desire and ambition. -Katie Kiedyk

  • author: Radio Crystal Blue

    www.jennlindsay.com  Honest, intelligent politcal lyrics crafted alongside guitar and related sounds.  Her background inclues plays, UK/CA stints on the coffeehouse circuits.  Readily embraced by the burgeoning antifolk scene in NYC, she has made a name for herself playing in some notable-profile venues. Her CD "Gotta Lotta" will be released 10/12, a most enjoyable listen. From the CD I played "Olly Olly Oxen Free" and "I Stayed Home Today" Casey Holford is heard on some tracks. I interviewed Jenn for my website. Read the full q/a at http://www.radiocrystalblue.com/q_a/q_a/lindsay.html

  • EXCELLENT
    author: Americana-UK

    JENN LINDSAY “Gotta Lotta” (No Evil Star Records, 2002) “Take Joni Mitchell, add a dash of Ani Di Franco, roast alongside Dan bern and PJ Harvey and baste lightly with Woody Guthrie!” Her description, but it’s a fairly comprehensive one - raised in San Diego (not by wolves, as it happens) and kickstarting her musical career here in Liverpool, she’s now an integral part of the New York anti-folk scene and manages to sing about politics with a background in gay/lesbian issues in a way that other singer-songwriters must only be able to hope for.  The nearest modern comparison would have to be Dar Williams, and although Lindsay doesn’t quite hit the spot in terms of memorable songs that Dar does so often, she’s still pretty damn good - the lyrical feast of songs like“Fangs and Fur” and “I Am Not Going Home Yet” (“What is New York but a cinematic dream, Somewhere you swear to yourself you’ve been”) are both wry, deep and most of all really enjoyable. Excellent.

  • Call to arms!
    author: Suite 101.com Choice Cuts of August-September 2002

    The Scoop: I hate to do it—I tried not to—but there’s just no getting around the Joni and Ani comparisons. Jenn Lindsay has a vocal brightness that is reminiscent of early Joni, while the introspective frankness of her lyrics recalls early Ani (although lacking the ripped-out rage of, say, Dilate). Musically, Gotta Lotta doesn’t venture much outside familiar, strum-heavy folk territory. This is a disaster for most folkies, because—frankly—it focuses too much attention on shaky voices and even shakier poetry. Fortunately, Lindsay has an engaging voice—-both sweet and scarred-—and has plenty of insightful observations to fill notebooks. Some lyrics are startling in their honesty and their embrace of moments of weakness. And yet she doesn’t take herself too seriously, either, as evidenced by songs like “Salvation Army” (about not finding anything her size at the thrift store). Highlight Tracks: “Fangs and Fur” and “I Am Not Going Home Yet,” a powerful call-to-arms for struggling urban artists everywhere.

  • congratulations
    author: Harmony Ridge Music

    I've listened to GOTTA LOTTA several times and really enjoy it. Your songwriting is outstanding, it’s the kind of stuff that makes me really listen. My favorite cut is “I am Not Going Home Yet”, great job powerful song. Congratulations on a superb album.

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