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Artist
Jennifer Markey
4+ albums
alt countrycountryrockamericanaMinnesota
about
"My mother says I was a genius baby. At two years old, at about five in the morning, before my parents would get up, I'd pick out a 45 record from my vast collection and throw it on the Fisher-Price turntable (labeled RECORD PLAYER by my mother in giant Sharpie letters), fire that baby up and get on my squeaky hobby horse. I'd do that for about two hours until I got lonely (or hungry)and wanted my Mom, at which time I would crawl into her bed and wake her up. Some of my first memories are of singing with my mom, but it was when my friend and roommate at the time, Kris, suggested I sing karaoke at Waldo's, a biker bar in the Camden neighborhood in North Minneapolis, that I caught the bug. That night I sang "Me and Bobby McGee", Janis-style, for a bunch of Hell's Angels. They freaked out! I couldn't believe THAT came out of ME! I sang karaoke anywhere I could. I settled down and got married in 2001 and laid it to rest. My husband and I rarely went out, but in January 2003 I discovered the Country Jam at the Hexagon Bar in South Minneapolis and was talked into singng "Walkin' After Midnight". I was there every week for several months-I drove there in a snowstorm to sing one week. Finally, Dan Gaarder got fed up with me not knowing what keys my songs were in; he asked me if I owned a guitar. I did but I hadn't played it in years. He encouraged me to pick it up again. I started learning how to play and sing simultaneously! I divorced my husband that spring, and met Jon (see Jen
