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Artist
Jennifer Clarke
12+ albums
about
Singer-songwriter Jennifer Clarke is part poet, part pirate of the Eastern seaboard and part drifter. A full-time commercial fishing Captain, she has also been writing songs for as many winters as she can remember. “I used to fish throughout the winters,” she says, “but I finally indulged my lifelong dream of making records, and now I split my time between the two.” She has just released her third album, Trinkets in Rubble, while preparing for a move to Los Angeles from her home on Martha’s Vineyard. Jennifer casts a wide net to arrive at a musicianship whose compositions and arrangements are steeped in fervent imagination, whose lyrics are searingly intimate and whose style is unequivocally unique and deeply resonant. Jennifer grew up on a farm in the shadows of the Blue Ridge mountain range in Delaplane, Virginia. The one-horse town’s post office, antique store and railroad station didn’t offer much distraction from farm life, so Jennifer spent her youth baling hay, running Black Angus cattle, skinning rattlesnakes, fly fishing and roaming the land by pony, dirt bike, go cart, dune buggy and bicycle. Throughout, she dreamed of being a singer-songwriter. She left home at fifteen and performed her first singing gig the following year at an open mic night at The Sunflower Café in Boston’s Harvard Square to a standing ovation, although she didn’t heartily pursue her songwriting career until much later. Her lone star lifestyle bred a fierce independence, self-reliance and an a
