About

“Jennifer Lynn is bound to be a nationally recognized singer.” That’s what Washington State Magazine boasted in review of her sophomore album release “The Way I Feel Tonight”. The album features the musical talent of her long-time Portland, Oregon based band along with guest musician Sweet Basil McJagger (The Derailers) on piano and organ. She released the album only a month after opening for Taylor Swift at her alma mater (Washington State University) in the fall of 2007.

Jennifer Lynn has taken the stage to perform throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho as well as a few clubs in Nashville. She’s had outstanding success sharing the stage with the finest country musicians in the world including Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Eric Church and many more. She was also selected multiple times by major radio station’s to perform at their pre-concert parties for George Strait, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts and Trace Adkins.

She is the kind of singer that appeals to the everyday music listener and routinely surprises people into realizing they actually like country music.  When performing a gentle ballad like her original “The Whiskey”, she can bend your ear like a Vince Gill or Trisha Yearwood ballad. And, although she’s been called too traditional (which isn’t a bad thing), she’s certainly not shy about letting her Miranda Lambert or Gary Allan rocker-style show. Just listen to her song “What’ll It Be” and you’ll discover her edgy side. So, whatever the genre – traditional country, modern country, Americana, Rockabilly or just plain country – it doesn’t matter.  Her songwriting is purely original and uniquely hers.

Jennifer is one apple that didn’t fall far from the family tree.

Gladys Bryant, her grandma from Port Angeles, Washington, had an incredibly strong influence on the shaping of Jennifer’s songwriting craft. A modest published poet, Gladys had a way with words that was clever, vivid and thoughtful. She often wrote short poems and cataloged them in a binder that began to overflow with words. Jennifer’s lyrics echo her Grandma’s style.  And following the passing of Gladys, Jennifer named her guitar after her. She even wrote a tender song about her parent’s called “My Friend” (video) on that very guitar and it seems to bring out her best:

Lost inside the sounds

Of this quiet little town

You find your way to somewhere street

Looking for a place you might rest your weary feet

When all you want to do is hold

The half that makes you whole

You’d give your life to make things right

Your one last breath if you thought it would end her fight

Her father Aerlyn was a popular lead singer in a rock n’ roll band from the 50′s and 60′s called The Rebounds. He rode motorcycles and rivaled the looks and swagger of Elvis. He performed throughout the Olympic Peninsula from the pacific coast to Seattle. When he wasn’t performing, he was bouncing at the front door of their regular bar in order to make more money. His stage presence was incomparable and his vocal talent soared. He and a long-time guitarist friend recorded music together and were an inseparable power-duo. Aerlyn was later offered a recording contract, but turned it down in order to start his family.

Jennifer is constantly writing new songs and has developed a solid repertoire of original music that is waiting for its moment to shine beyond the confines of the Pacific Northwest. Like Gladys, Jennifer’s words have begun to overflow the bounds of her tattered songwriting notebook. Like Aerlyn, her vocal talent soared. She sang in choirs and vocal ensembles to theatre and opera through and beyond college. But it’s the combination of her lyric writing and vocal skill that provides an insight into the “clever, vivid, and thoughtful” character her Grandma helped shape and the talented performing songwriter her father inspired her to be.

Year after year, Jennifer Lynn continued to add more live shows to her already outstanding performance history in the Pacific Northwest. Her name popped up in media throughout the region including The Oregonian A&E, Willamette Week, Peninsula Woman and Washington State Magazine to name a few. It was central Oregon’s The Source Weekly that succinctly noted: “[Jennifer] Lynn has bolted to the forefront of the NW music scene.” Fortunately, the family tree laid down some solid roots.