Jenny James is an Oxnard, CA-based singer/songwriter, musician painter and college professor at Oxnard College. As a singer/songwriter, James has penned songs that have been recorded by Tanya Tucker, Carlene Carter, The Judds and KT Oslin, while writing and recording two solo country and Americana albums, 2008’s self-titled and 2011’s Short On Sleep, Long On Love and an alt-rock EP, Dead Queen. James also collaborated with Arrested Amnesia on a trance album.
The Oxnard-based artist’s publishing companies HollywoodTrax and OneStopSongs have produced music for film and TV. She recorded “Takin’ A Trip In The Veggie Van,” the theme song for Fields of Fuel, which won the audience choice award at Sundance Film Festival.
Recently, James has begun working with producer Mark Christian on her third solo album. But in the meantime, the James, Chas Ferry and Marco Moir co-written “Abandoning Alice,” which was released earlier this year is a buzzy and languorous synthesis of psych folk and psych rock that sounds as though it could have been released in 1966 — or three days ago.
As James explains, “Abandoning Alice” “is a song about the current political situation in the U.S. told through the story of Alice Through The Looking Glass.” And as a result, it captures our dangerous and surreal moment with an uncanny precision.
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