Jan Bell is the band leader of The Maybelles, who started out as a duo with Melissa Carper in a little town in Arkansas, then New Orleans, and later New York City.
Awards
Independent Music Awards
WINNER Alt. Country Album of the year 2008. People's Choice Award
Brooklyn Country Music Hall of Fame Award 2009
"For unending support of country music in New York City"
Top 3 Albums of the year 2008
CMR Nashville, UK. Hosted by Gail Comfort.
Brooklyn Arts Council September 11th 'Memorial Sing', NYC 2009
'The Real Deal' Songwriter's Masters Stage
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival , NY2009.
Mayor Bloomberg's Award for Women in Business, NYC
Superfine cites Jan Bell and Little Red Hen Music in receipt of this coveted prize
TOP 10 Folk Albums (Village Voice 2006)
National Folk Alliance Official Artist, Memphis 2008
International Bluegrass Music Awards, Nashville 2008
WINNER New Jersey Folk Festival Singer Songwriter 2007
WINNER New Orleans City Life Singer/Songwriter 2005
Audience Award Title Track in Malibu Film Festival 'Between the Bridges'
Founder : Little Red Hen Music 1999
The Maybelles: Jan Bell
The Sunday Times, London, UK
The Sunday Times (London) 'Anglicana' feature
Tim Cooper explores the UK Americana realm, giving it the handle 'Anglicana'.
"The British are even making waves in the home of country. Jan Bell, a latter-day Loretta Lynn from a Yorkshire coal-mining background, emigrated to America in her teens. She leads an old-time trio, the Maybelles, and an alt-country band, the Cheap Dates, whose Songs for Love Drunk Sinners won best alt-country album at the 2008 Independent Music Awards. Her roots still show: her song Yorkshire Water catalogues the death of the coal industry, while Carried by the Wind is a lament for British farmers affected by the foot-and-mouth outbreak.
Bell likens the emergence of Anglicana to the 1960s blues boom, when British musicians created their own versions of American blues, then exported them back as heavy rock. “Some of our freest cultural exchanges, even across difficult political boundaries, take place through music,” she says. “There’s a beauty to that.”
To see the full feature 'Hoe down in the home counties' visit
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article7048594.ece