Eden Brent
Official Website: edenbrent.com
A lifetime in the birthplace of the Blues: a riches to rags story
Mississippi Delta native Eden Brent is a piano-pounding, juke-joint hollering powerhouse of American music. A legendary performer and southern songwriter, she spent the first two decades of her career under the tutelage of Abie “Boogaloo” Ames, before winning the Blues Foundation Challenge and bouncing onto the international scene. Since then she accrues awards and accolades galore including three Blues Music Award wins, a prestigious Mississippi Arts Commission Folk Arts Fellowship, an NPR Weekend Edition feature, and numerous Living Blues and Blues Blast nominations. With a career spanning forty years, Eden plays clubs, concerts and festivals like the down-home Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale and the epic New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She travels to faraway events like Blues in Hell, Norway and Duvel Blues Festival in Belgium. She frequently hosts the Piano Bar aboard the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise and is recognized as one of today’s leading blues artists, continuing the legacy of Mississippi’s trailblazing blues women like Lucille Bogan, Memphis Minnie, Lil Green and Denise LaSalle. Her new album, Getaway Blues, presents nine original songs recorded in London with a four-piece band. The intimate soundscape lends the perfect backdrop to Eden’s vocal lines, allowing the essence of the song to cut straight through.
Eden is featured in three documentaries: Boogaloo & Eden: Sustaining the Sound; Forty Days in the Delta; and 180 Degrees: Changing Lives in the Mississippi Delta; in publications like Living Blues, USA Today and Garden & Gun; on national radio broadcasts including NPR Weekend Edition and American Routes; and is among Mississippi’s living blues legends in H. C. Porter’s touring exhibit and companion book Blues@Home.
Her music continues to delight both critics and live audiences alike.
