Edie Brickell

Infobox musical artist

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Origin = Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, US
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Genre = Folk rock
Occupation = Singer-songwriter
Years_active = 1985–present
Label = Geffen
Associated_acts = Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
URL = [http://www.ediebrickell.com/ www.ediebrickell.com]
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Edie Brickell (born March 10, 1966 in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter.

Biography

Career

Music

Brickell attended high school at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts [cite news
url= http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-ocfocus_16met.ART.West.Edition1.45648b9.html
title= Dallas performing, visual arts school set for Taste of the Arts
date=2008-02-16
first= J. Louise
last= Larson
work= The Dallas Morning News
accessdate= 2008-05-01] in Dallas, and then attended Southern Methodist University for a year and a half before, in 1985, she made the decision one night in a bar to get up on stage with a local folk rock group, New Bohemians. She joined the band as lead singer and the group became Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Their 1988 debut album "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" became a critical and commercial success. The band's follow-up album, "Ghost of a Dog" (1990), fared less well. [cite web
url= http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/brickell_edie/artist.jhtml
title= Edie Brickell
publisher= MTV Networks / VH1
accessdate= 2007-11-05] As a solo artist, Brickell released "Picture Perfect Morning" (1994) and "Volcano" (2003). In 2006 she reunited with some of the original members of New Bohemians and they released the album "Stranger Things". [cite web
url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5782965
title= Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Starting Over
author= David Dye
work= World Cafe
publisher= NPR
date= 2006-09-07
accessdate= 2008-02-10]

In late 2007, Brickell and her stepson Harper Simon formed the band The Heavy Circles. They released a single on iTunes entitled "Hands On". The Heavy Circles released a debut album on February 12, 2008, featuring Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, and members of Cibo Matto. [cite web
url= http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18816582
title= Brickell Finds New Sound in The Heavy Circles
work= Weekend Edition Sunday
publisher= NPR
date= 2008-02-10
accessdate= 2008-02-10]

Films and Video

Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film, "Born on the Fourth of July". Her version of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is featured on the film's soundtrack. She also sang a cover version of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side in the 1990 film Flashback. Her "Good Times" video was included as part of the multimedia samples on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM [cite web
url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGoMBvvoqTw| title= Good Times video
publisher= Microsoft Corporation
accessdate= 2008-04-08] .

Family

Her father, Eddie Brickell, "the Fort Worth Southpaw", was posthumously inducted into the Texas State Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1988 [cite web
url= http://www.texasbowling.com/tsba/hall.htm
title= Hall of Fame
publisher= Texas State Bowling Association
accessdate= 2007-11-05] .

Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992. They live in New Canaan, Connecticut. [cite news
first= Ken
last= Dixon
title= Music Hall of Fame Proposed for State
work= [http://www.connpost.com/ Connecticut Post]
location= Bridgeport, CT
id= Article ID 5761094 (fee required)
date= 2007-04-26 ] Brickell was performing "What I Am" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "He made me mess the song up when I looked at him", she said with a smile. "We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'" They have three children: Adrian Edward (born December 1992), Lucia "Lulu" Jean (born April 1995) and Gabriel Elijah (born May 1998). [cite web
url= http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/07/music.edie.brickell.ap/
title= Whatever happened to Edie Brickell?
publisher= Associated Press / CNN
date= 2004-01-04
accessdate= 2007-11-05]

Discography

*"It's Like This" (1986)
*"Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" (1988) US #4, 2x platinum
*"Ghost of a Dog" (1990)
*"Picture Perfect Morning" (1994)
*"The Live Montauk Sessions" (2000)
*"The Ultimate Collection" (2002)
*"Volcano" (2003)
*"Stranger Things" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.ediebrickell.com/ Edie Brickell] official website
* [http://newbohemians.com/ New Bohemians] official website
* [http://annette.net/music/ebnb/ New Bohemians Discography]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:pr5f8qftbtc4~T1 Edie Brickell] in the All music guide
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