Video: Don't Tell A Girl - Courtney Jaye - Music Video

courtney jaye blew into my life like an oily and humid breeze off the gulf, but once i put on her the exotic sounds of... i was immediately transported to a place where the mixed drinks flowed freely, feet were firmly planted in sand and my ass was firmly planted in a chaise lounge. she's from nashville, grew up in atlanta? and may call kauai, hawaii home. if you're a musician, i can only imagine living in said places would make for an interesting collection of influences. taking these influences, and putting them down to record, at least in my [...]

• Courtney Jaye - Box Wine

A singular vision of Hawaiian-tinged Canyon Country Those who know Courtney Jaye from her 2005 release on Island, Traveling Light , don't really know Courtney Jaye. A pleasant album with glossy production, an airbrushed cover and some memorable pop hooks, it propelled her into the pop mainstream, culminating with some film and television placements (including a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Who'll Stop the Rain "), and a performance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Not Conan or Letterman or Kimmel, but Leno, which tells you where her [...]

Country music goes Hawaiian in this mash up of musical styles where something mysterious is always happening. Courtney Jaye does something sweet and wonderful on her country-music-goes-Hawaiian mash-up. She finds the common sensibility at the heart of both genres, not just in the instrumentation (lap steel guitars) and lilting melodies but in the genuine loopiness that comes out of just being sincere. Jaye's narrators aren't afraid to get down an beg for love ("Sometimes Always"), drown their sorrows in cheap alcohol ("Box Wine"), or kick themselves for being stupid ("Queen of Sabotage")....