Biography
As a singer and songwriter, Amy Lennard fuses the raw sincerity and vitality of folk-rock with the plainspoken values of country across her work. She entered the world in Roslyn, Long Island, and started guitar instruction at age ten. Reaching maturity, she resolved to build a livelihood in music and therefore departed the East Coast for Northern California. Music receded into the background for several years after she entered a commune and devoted herself to mastering organic gardening. A subsequent shift to the Pacific Northwest allowed her to enter that region’s acoustic circles before she reversed direction and established herself in New York City. There she aligned with seasoned session players—Jon Gordon, Tony Tino, Oz Noy, and Dan Vonnegut—who helped her refine the original songs she had already written. Her first EP, the five-track Amy Lennard, came out in 2004. Four years afterward she revisited three of those pieces for her inaugural full-length release, I Need to Love, issued on Hold Your Own Music.
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