Jess Klein
Jess Klein (born in 1974) is an American singer/songwriter.
A native of Rochester, New York, Klein learned to play acoustic guitar and started writing songs while living in Kingston, Jamaica in her late teens.
Klein moved to Boston upon her return home, and began performing locally. After independently releasing her first two albums, winning the Telluride Troubador Songwriting Contest, and garnering several Boston Music Award nominations, she was signed to Rykodisc in 2000 by then-president George Howard.
Klein's first release for Ryko, Draw Them Near [which received 3½ out of four stars from USA Today], launched Klein on a worldwide tour where she performed before 70,000 attendees at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Returning to the U.S., Klein joined the songwriter collective Voices on the Verge, along with Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, and Beth Amsel. The foursome performed Klein's song 'Little White Dove' on Good Morning America.
Klein's second solo effort for Ryko, Strawberry Lover, was produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely. It debuted as the number one most added album at triple A radio a week before its release, was given four stars by MOJO, and received a plug from the nearly 80 million readership Parade. In 2005, Nerdcore Rapper MC Frontalot posted on his website a rap breakdown using the beat from the Jess Klein song "Soda Water."
Klein, Jesse Filmography
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2014, role: actor , character name: Jesse
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2014, role: actor , character name: Boyfriend
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2013, role: actor , character name: Mike
Klein, Jesse Filmography
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2010, role: actor , character name: Gallery-Goer
Klein, Jesse Filmography
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2011, role: miscellaneous crew
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2011, role: producer
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2011, role: writer
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2011, role: director
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2011, role: editor
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2011, role: miscellaneous crew
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2011, role: actor
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: editor
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2010, role: director
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2010, role: miscellaneous crew
Jess Klein
ALBUMS
- Behind a Veil released: 2013
- Bound to Love released: 2009
- City Garden released: 2006
- Strawberry Lover released: 2005
- Draw Them Near released: 2000
- Wishes Well Disguised released: 1998
- Flattery released:
Sink My Teeth In
I been standin' in a smoky kitchen
Heating oil on a fryin' pan
Burn marks on my hands
In the other room a boy so patient
Doesn't even wanna see me need
But I gotta be free
You make me feel so well-protected
I don't even wanna go outside
So afraid the sun is gonna
Tell me something here ain't right
Baby you're not gonna give me up
You're just gonna give me better stuff
You're just gonna give me something I can
Sink my teeth in
Lean your shoulders back and bear my load
Give me something I can use for the road
Lean your weight into me boy I wanna
Sink my teeth in
Drove the chevy across Pennsylvania
Yeah I'm trekkin' it to Oregon
Got my raincoat on
All you see these days are billboards pulsing
Telling me just what I need to fly
Making myths of my sky
Take me some place where I'm as naked
Nothing but the very core of me
And no matter how the wind blows
That's where you can get it free
(Chorus)
Every night I spend on scratchy sheets
Every morning I might miss the dawn
