Jenny Owen Youngs
Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey
Her album Batten the Hatches was self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, "Fuck Was I", appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime's Weeds, resulting in Batten the Hatches being re-released on April 10, 2007 with new artwork and an extra track ("Drinking Song") on the Canadian indie label Nettwerk. "Fuck Was I" was also released on Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Vol. 2. Her second solo album, Transmitter Failure, on May 26, 2009.
In addition to her solo career, she is in the band The Robot Explosion, a side project with fellow musicians and friends Bess Rogers, Andrew Futral, and Saul Simon-MacWilliams. She also takes part in an online Podcast through myspace with Bess Rogers and Andrew Futral, titled 'Once More With Feeling' (named after the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer).
Youngs recently toured with Vienna Teng, opening for the singer on the Green Caravan Tour. Also, she supported Aimee Mann at London's indigO2 on 27 July 2007. Youngs more recently toured with Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket in August 2007, a co-headlining a U.S. tour with Sean Hayes and toured the UK with Regina Spektor in 2009.
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Transmitter Failure (2009)
Transmitter Failure is the second album by Jenny Owen Youngs, she described it as "We wanted to make a record that would be a bit bouncier, a bit more fun to play live. But don't worry, the songs are still full of girl-feelings."
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Batten the Hatches (2005) self released, UK (June 2007), US (2007)
Batten the Hatches is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs. Originally self-released in 2005 by Youngs, it was reissued with the bonus track "Drinking Song" two years later by the Nettwerk label.
The track "Fuck Was I" was used in the first episode of the second season of the Showtime series Weeds, to illustrate a scene in which main character Nancy Botwin, a part-time marijuana dealer, discovers that her new lover is in fact a DEA agent. This appearance reportedly led to sales of the album increasing from between five and ten per week to between twenty and thirty per day.
The album was listed as one of Guardian Unlimited's "Greatest Albums You've Never Heard" in a feature in November, 2006.
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