Edie Brickell
(born March 10, 1966 in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Biography
Career
Music
Brickell attended high school at the
Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts [1] 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), did not fare as well.
[2]
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
.
[3]
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.
[4]
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
[5]. In the American Dad episode "Roger 'N Me" Francine, after rejecting an offer from Klaus for help, plays for him upon his request a brief section of the song "Circle".
Family
Her father, Eddie Brickell, "the Fort Worth Southpaw", was
posthumously inducted into the Texas State Bowling Association Hall of Fame in 1988.
[6]
Brickell married
singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992.
[7]
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.'"
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)
Other contributions
- Microsoft Windows 95
(1995) - "Good Times" Video
- WFUV: City Folk Live VII
(2004) - "Take a Walk"
References
- Dallas performing, visual arts school set for Taste of the Arts
- Edie Brickell
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians: Starting Over
- Brickell Finds New Sound in The Heavy Circles
- PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Personal Computers: What Is Windows 95 Really Like?
- Hall of Fame
- Music Hall of Fame Proposed for State