A "supergroup" from Winnipeg, Canada! These three women, already capable solo acts, got together for one concert only, but something exciting happened. Now here is their debut CD.

The music is folksy, rootsy, rocking...beautiful. Included are covers (former Winnipeg resident Neil Young's Old Man), the traditional Saucy Sailor (remember Steeleye Span's version?), as well as their own compositions.

40 Days is the debut full-length album from Canadian folk trio The Wailin' Jennys. The lineup of the group at the time was Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta, and Cara Luft. This was the last recording to feature Luft, who left the group the following year.

Although the title, 40 Days appears as a line in the song "Something to Hold Onto", and traditionally has religious significance it was chosen for another reason. The title is actually the number of days it took the Jennys to record and refine the album and is a tribute to the experiences encountered during that time.

The album features three tracks contributed by each the band's three songwriters and covers of Neil Young's "Old Man" and John Hiatt's "Take It Down". The group rounds out the collection with the traditional farewell, "The Parting Glass".

The album received the 2005 Juno Award for "Roots & Traditional Album of the Year by a Group".

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Artist/Band Information

The Wailin' Jennys are a Juno Award-winning Canadian folk trio from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and New York, and they consist of soprano Ruth Moody, mezzo Nicky Mehta and alto Heather Masse. Recently, the Jennys have also toured with fiddler and mandolinist Jeremy Penner, who is from Ruth's former band, Scruj MacDuhk.

The Wailin' Jennys have released several albums and tour regularly through North America and Europe. The group is also often featured on the American Public Media program, A Prairie Home Companion. Their album, Firecracker, made it to the number two spot on the Billboard Bluegrass charts, in 2006.

History

The group was founded in 2002, when a guitar shop in Winnipeg - called Sled Dog Music - brought three soloists - (Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft) - together for a joint performance. The show was well received and the owner scheduled a follow-up, which was also a great success. The owner then "offered that they might go on tour and call themselves the Wailin' Jennys." of A Prairie Home Companion, viewed 2006-10-10 The group's name is a pun on the country singer Waylon Jennings.

Luft left, in 2004, to pursue her solo career and was replaced by Annabelle Chvostek, a singer/songwriter from Montreal.

At the 2005 Juno Awards, the group won Roots and Traditional Album of the Year (Group) for their 2004 album 40 Days. at Guilford

In 2007, Chvostek left the group and was replaced by Heather Masse, a Maine-born singer with a background in jazz and blues, as well as folk, who also fronts the Brooklyn-based Heather & the Barbarians.

All of the members of the Jennys maintain solo careers, in addition to their efforts with the group.

Discography

References

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