 NYC-based Americana/rock singer-songwriter Amy Speace is a crystalline-voiced, sassy yet poetic storyteller who rocks. Not just another dreamy folky, Amy wields a powerhouse voice seemingly incongruously influenced by early Joan Baez, Linda Rondstadt and Melissa Etheridge. Her whip-smart, hooky songwriting borrows heavily from the sass of Liz Phair, the intelligence of Dar Williams and throws in the grit of alt-country rebels like Steve Earl and Lucinda Williams. Billboard Magazine writes: “[Amy’s] music is undeniably earnest and commercially accessible.” Her debut CD Fable (“a bright, bouncy thing” Americana-UK) was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on a budget of $5,000 donated by her fans and received widespread critical praise and international airplay. Upon its release, Amy hit the road, touring over 100 dates a year, both solo and with her full band, The Tearjerks, which include some of the top players in the NYC scene. She has shared the stage with Shivaree, Alejandro Escovedo, Steve Forbert, Ricky Skaggs, Joan Osborne, Catie Curtis and Lucy Kaplansky, to name a few. She’s been in the news lately as a song of hers, “Why Not Wyoming” is being featured in a national TV and Radio Ad campaign promoting tourism to that State and the song is being aired on Clear Channel stations in the mountain regions. Her follow up CD will be released in early summer 2005 was co-produced by Speace and her lead guitar player James Mastro (the Health & Happiness Show, The Bongos, Ian Hunter) and features her band as well as guests Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), E-Street Band fiddler Soozie Tyrell and Cliff Eberhart. Songs from this soon-to-be-released album have already been targeted for use in Film and TV and Epiphone Guitars recently tapped Amy to be one of their only unsigned endorsees and featured her in their 2005 “Women Who Rock” Calendar, alongside Joan Osborne and Gretchen “Redneck Woman” Wilson. This year, Amy has been making frequent trips to Nashville to write with Grammy-award winning songwriter Jon Vezner (“Where You Been”, Kathy Mattea). She has showcased at SXSW, CMJ, Philadelphia Music Conference, Atlantis, NACA, The Songwriters Hall of Fame, appeared on the mainstage at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, Mountain Stage New Song Festival, been named a finalist in many songwriting competitions, including a nomination for Album Of The Year (Just Plain Folks). The Village Voice says that Amy "has that rare gift for telling tales of situations that matter, with utter simplicity, in plain talk...via driving rock, louder or more restrained, but tasty. She's a real singing writer of songs." Time Out New York says her songs “groove along with power pop élan” and The Nashville Rage calls her “alt-country’s answer to Jill Sobule.” Any way you write it, Amy is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from the downtown NYC
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