Although she is American-born (she grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia in a house where George Washington once slept), Catherine Feeny began garnering popular and critical acclaim in the UK early in her career with the 2003 release of her eponymous full-length debut. In 2006, as Feeny split her time between the UK and Los Angeles and was signed to EMI, her stateside following continued to grow. There LA-based tastemaker Nic Harcourt played her on Morning Becomes Eclectic, his KCRW radio show, and her song Mr. Blue off that year’s Hurricane Glass LP was featured in the film, Running With Scissors. That same track reached the A-list at Britain’s most listened-to radio station, BBC Radio 2, and Feeny toured the British Isles extensively both headlining and in support of artists such as Martha Wainwright, Kelly Jones, Suzanne Vega and The Indigo Girls.
Gillian Welch / Everything Is Free
A thousand years of weariness are in this song. And David Rawlings’ easy virtuosity. It just takes my breath away.
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