Jennifer Castle's meandering, beautifully misshapen guitar lines meet with her thorny/poignant, lyrics and utterly disarming voice. With a desire to write music that, "lets me really play the guitar and play guitar with no preciousness to structure and timing so I can really enjoy singing…the song becomes the bridge for both interests", Castle's addictive songs echo homespun greats like Johnny Cash and Elizabeth Cotton.

Of her song writing intentions and heartbreaking delivery, Castle says, "[I wish to] write with a dedication to imagination, poetry, meaninglessness, impossibility and honesty. Bad grammar and sloppy chord changes…to lyrically write in the often sad voice of a person who feels alone, while playing and singing like a person who reaps the uninhibited and beautiful benefits of this state". And indeed, while many of these tunes are heartbreakers, there is intuitive headspace between the meaning of the words, the singer, the guitar and the audience that never allow the material to become maudlin.

LINKS:

http://www.jennifercastlemusic.com/