Returns with a new album and UK tour.

“Wayfarer is a breakthrough for me, a total departure. It’s so uptempo, and my life is uptempo rightnow. I feel very, very happy.”

Brooklyn native Nell Bryden is excited to announce a UK headline tour, following the release of her third album,Wayfarer. In Wayfarer, something new and pretty wonderful is about to appear from Nell Bryden. Do you know about Nell? Born in Brooklyn, she grew up in an artists’ loft on Atlantic Avenue. Her parents split when she was five, and she spent the next few years with her dad, painter andn sculptor Lewis Bryden, later moving to live with her mom, professor and classical soprano Jane. Classically trained (she studied cello for ten years), Nell was set to be an opera singer – until she heard Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. She finished her English degree at Wellesley while playing regular evening gigs at Boston’s many and varied folk and rock clubs. Since then, she’s been unstoppable, despite being right in the way of nature’s vicissitudes. Nell was living in Greenwich Village when 9/11 happened, and found her only relief from the fall-out was to write and tour an album that touched on it. She was working on a follow-up in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit, leaving her with a handful of half-finished tracks; completion came when she sold a Milton Avery painting her dad gave her as a baby to finish and release that album, 2009’s jazz- and blues-inflected What Does It Take?, to critical acclaim.

The Wayfaring troubadour…

And now? After surviving a disrupted childhood, several natural disasters and the stress of making it on her own, things are more than good for Nell. She’s even met the right man, and is about to marry. It all shows in Wayfarer, an album produced by Dario Darnell and Lorne Ashley Brigham Bowes (AKA Bicker Bros) and with the exuberant, sensual percussive energy of Fleetwood Mac or Cali girl-rockers Haim.
Tracks blend subtle electronic beats with live instruments and Nell’s trademark Gibson guitar; her dark-brown voice is stronger and more eloquent than ever.

The album is seductively dancey. Nell: ‘There’s a different sense emotionally towhere I’ve been in the past. Before, there was a lot of heartbreak, cry in your beer stuff that needed pedal steel all over the place.’ Big grin. ‘I don’t feel like that now.’ Acclaim and a series of starry support slots has seen Nell tour now with everyonefrom Counting Crows, KT Tunstall and Jools Holland to Duane Eddy, Chris Rea, the Gipsy Kings and Gary Barlow. There were righteous performances at a string of festivals, including Hyde Park, Cornbury, V Festival and Bluesfest, and in September 2013, Cher recorded her own version of Sirens on her album Closer to the Truth.

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