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Baby, We All Know

by Miss Tess

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1.
Ride That Train 03:09
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2.
Little Lola 04:10
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3.
It's So Easy to Tell 03:20
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4.
I Can't Help Myself 04:38
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5.
Do You Want My Love 03:16
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6.
Shotgun Wedding 02:00
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7.
Take You, Break You, Shake You 04:00
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8.
Don't Blame Me 03:18
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9.
Moonshiner 03:51
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10.
Going Downtown 05:48
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11.
Lie to Me 03:42
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On her new release "Baby, We All Know" (released independently on Rights Records in 2016), Miss Tess continues to explore her own personal crossroads of American roots music. This full-length release features eleven finely crafted and well-sung original songs. Heightened by Tess’ prowess on her Weymann archtop guitar, she is accompanied by her top-notch band, The Talkbacks, featuring guitar ace and co-conspirator Thomas Bryan Eaton. The songs were further enlivened with piano, organ, pedal steel, and fiddle in the studio.

Tess says “I consider this my best yet collection of original music. In writing these tunes I stepped out of myself and into many different characters, based on real life and my imagination, and pulled sounds and stories from my musical fantasy land. Baby, we all know their secrets and on goings, in a world of mischief and troubled fun.” These songs were penned at Tess’s yearly writing retreat in New Hampshire, and at her home in Nashville. Yet time and place don’t bear much relevance here; the subjects she speaks through live in the streets of New Orleans, in the backwoods hollers of Tennessee, on a train heading to Mexico, and under the sheets.

Tess got her musical start at home in Maryland, her childhood nights ending in music. Her parents would sing her to sleep with the gentle, tender sounds of American folk songs, occasionally interrupted by their 30s swing band rehearsing in the basement. Tess studied pianomas a child, and continued on as a teenager to take up the guitar and singing, and eventually began her own studies in early jazz and blues. All grown up, Miss Tess and The Talkbacks regularly steal the show at venues with something a little rowdier and more eclectic. Infused with classic country and honky-tonk, southern rhythm & blues, New Orleans jazz and swing, and sounds of swamp pop and early rock n’ roll, she is an embodiment of everything that it still home-grown in America.

Miss Tess has been releasing albums and leading a band for over a decade, spanning her career over many different cities including Baltimore, Boston, NYC, and her new home base of Nashville, TN. Straddling her move from New York to Nashville, the new album was recorded in both cities. The recording cast includes her steady band mate and co-producer, Thomas Bryan Eaton, producer Dan Knobler (Rodney Crowell, Tift Merritt), Robin Macmillan, Jake Silver (Lee Fields), Roy Williams, Stefan Zeniuk, Eric Frey (The Revelers), Dominic Billet (Andrew Combs), Kai Welch, John Pahmer, Aaron Shaffer-Haiss, Oliver Craven (The Stray Birds), Maya De Vitry (The Stray Birds) and Caitlin Canty.

A follow up to 2012’s "Sweet Talk" and 2013’s "The Love I Have for You", both released on Signature Sounds Recordings, Baby, We All Know will be released independently. As she expands and grows more into her own sound, Tess is still hard to categorize. She says “Many times after the show somebody will come up to compliment the band and ask me what kind of music we just played. After mumbling through a few different genres I usually just tell them it’s my music and hope they enjoyed the show”.

Enjoyable is just what "Baby, We All Know is", propelled by the classic quality of Tess’s vocals, compelling and totally believable. The production throughout is the right balance of punch and rhythm, without getting in the way of the vocals or songwriting, giving this collection of songs a plentiful dose of old-school swagger. Time after time, Miss Tess is able to utilize sounds and styles from a past era combined with modern sensibilities to present an authentic and engaging presence.

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released July 8, 2016

MUSICIANS
• Miss Tess – vocals and guitars
Thomas Bryan Eaton – guitars, pedal steel, organ (track 3), harmony vocals
• Eric Frey – upright & electric bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11)
• Dominic Billett – drums (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)
• Robin Macmillan – drums (tracks 4, 5, 7, 10)
• Jake Silver – upright & electric bass (tracks 4, 5, 7, 10)
• Aaron Shafer-Haiss – percussion
• Kai Welch – organ & wurlitzer
• John Pahmer – piano (track 1)
• Roy Williams – piano (track 4)
• Stefan Zeniuk – baritone sax
• Oliver Craven – fiddle & harmony vocals
• Maya de Vitry – harmony vocals
• Caitlin Canty – harmony vocals

Produced by Dan Knobler, Miss Tess & Thomas Bryan Eaton
Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11 recorded by Dan Knobler at Goosehead Palace in Nashville, TN
Tracks 4, 5, 7, 10 recorded by Robin Macmillan at Faraway Sounds in Brooklyn, NY
Mixed by Dan Knobler
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering
Photography by Danielle Holbert
Album Layout by Miss Tess

All songs written by Miss Tess, 
except “Moonshiner” by Miss Tess & Sean Staples [BMI]
“Little Lola” by Miss Tess & Thomas Bryan Eaton [SESAC]
©2016 Miss Tess Music [SESAC] 
All rights Reserved.

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Miss Tess Nashville, Tennessee

Miss Tess has always been known for creating her own sound, inspired by an eclectic array of vintage blues, country, jazz, and rock n roll. Currently residing in Nashville, she finds no shortage of inspiration in the roots scene there. However varied Tess’ music can be, front and center sits her voice described as "alternately seductive and sexy, and a pure joy to listen to” (Pop Matters). ... more

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