EILEN JEWELL Gypsy (Signature Sounds/Planet) At first glance it feels like not that much has changed for Eilen Jewell in the four years since her sixth album, Sundown Over Ghost Town (her last collection of original songs) or the two years since her seventh, Downhearted Blues (her covers set of formative songs). Which is by no means a complaint, incidentally. Far from it. If leaning more to the country side of her style this time, once again she’s working a rich seam of slyly

Photo by Joanna Chattman EILEN JEWELL Leadbelly, May 30 An hour-and-a-half or so with Eilen Jewell can do serious damage to your liver, brain cells and celibacy. Even if you’re not drinking. Or leaving your seat. Her show is like some ultimate bar hopping/pub crawl night: the kind you don’t want to stop even when dawn rudely intervenes; the kind that accumulates patrons along the way - attracted, rather than put off by the evident enjoyment of the rowdy crowd accompanying her

EILEN JEWELL Down Hearted Blues (Signature Sounds) Oddly, given she is a good songwriter and not shy of tapping into her own stories (see her last album, Sundown Over Ghost Town) some of the signature moments of Eilen Jewell’s career have been with other people’s music. Or maybe another way to see it is if you want to know what has fed into her original albums Boundary Country, Letters From Sinners & Strangers, Sea Of Tears, Queen Of The Minor Key and Sundown Over Ghost Town,