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Jessie Baylin - Little Spark - Music Head - 21-01-2012 online listen pretty mellow for the most part beautiful voice nothing I didn't like included clip can be a love makes the list 1.8 from me and not yet rated by the pros at allmusic from the album - Holiday Jessie Baylin - Holiday - YouTube released Jan 17th 2012 Bio - from allmusic New Jersey native Jessie Baylin began plotting her songwriting career at an early age, penning poems while still in elementary school and -- at the ripe age of 13 -- singing for customers at the Fire Sight Inn, a local jazz bar that her parents owned. Although moved by the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Barbra Streisand, Baylin didn't compose her own songs until several years later, when she relocated to California after graduating from high school. She then settled in Los Angeles and honed her songwriting skills in private, eventually emerging with a batch of demos that mixed her jazz, country, and pop/rock influences. After generating label interest through her demo tapes and a residency at the Los Angeles club The Mint (as well as recurring gigs at the Hotel Café, which paired Baylin with a number of other emerging songwriters), the singer signed with the Verve Forecast label and released her debut effort, Firesight, in 2008. She also became engaged to Nathan Followill, the drummer for Kings of Leon, and resettled in Nashville with her fiancé. The two married one year later. Album Review - from louisville courier-journal Jessie Baylin is a Nashville singer-songwriter via Los Angeles and New Jersey, her home, but doesn’t sound like she’s from any of them. Baylin instead seems to live in an alternate universe where AM radio still rules and people made pop records that unabashedly courted a broad, if not especially diverse, audience. With gorgeous string arrangements from 1960s guru Jimmie “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Haskell and background vocals from Louisville’s Watson Twins that echo everything from Motown to the Brill Building, “Little Spark” is a retro power glide that only intermittently references the present. You’ll usually be thinking Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Skeeter Davis, a nice little triptych. Baylin’s dusky voice conveys both hope and resignation, go-to emotions for these kind of songs, and when she reaches into her upper register, you’re never sure if she’ll be laughing or crying. Sometimes the arrangements turn into affectations, but the strength of the melodies and Baylin’s singing keep most songs firmly pointed at a place where classic pop never grows old. Track Listing 1. Hurry Hurry 2. Love Is Wasted on Lovers 3. The Greatest Thing That Never Happened 4. I Feel That Too 5. Star Cannon 6. Yuma 7. Holiday 8. Dancer 9. The Winds 10. Joy Is Suspicious 11. Little Spark Jessie Baylin - Little Spark - TraceNspace - 21-01-2012 Very pretty