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JBM Promotions
Nellie’s McKay’s Strange Days: Get Away From Me Tour - Celebrating the release of Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos
Wed
Oct, 15
@ 7:00 PM
(Doors: 6:30 pm
)
The Southgate House Revival - Revival Room
,
111 E Sixth Street ,
Newport,
KY
All Ages
$36.93
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Nellie McKay has announced Gee Whiz: The Get Away From Me Demos, an 18-
track collection of rare recordings that led to McKay’s groundbreaking debut
album, Get Away From Me (2004). Gee Whiz will be available May 9, 2025 on
streaming, CD, and as a 2-LP set on Omnivore Recordings.
“I was attracted to the lyrics immediately,” says legendary Beatles engineer and
producer Geoff Emerick, who was drawn to the demos and produced Get Away
From Me. “Her level of maturity at such a young age is astounding. You come
across an artist of this caliber once every 10 or 15 years. And I don’t do a lot of
projects these days unless something really stands out, like this did.”
Composed, performed and produced by Nellie, these revelatory demos were
recorded in 2002 and sold by McKay as a series of handmade CD-R’s. The new
demo collection has been sequenced identically to Get Away From Me, with three
unreleased bonus songs, and mastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael
Graves.
When Get Away From Me was released on February 10, 2004, Rolling Stone gave
the album ★★★★. McKay made her national TV debut on The Late Show with
David Letterman, and the record landed in the Billboard Top 200. She was
compared to both “Doris Day and Eminem,” said NPR Morning Edition. “And throw
in a bit of Billie Holiday for good measure.” “It was a different time,” says Nellie.
“But if older reviewers—mostly men—scoffed at her juvenile assessment of George
Bush and world politics, with twenty years of hindsight, we can now say that she
was a lot more astute than many of the scholars writing at the time,” writes
Audiophix. “Nellie McKay—and her debut album—were not perfect. They were
better than that. They were real. And in a year that saw seminal punk from Green
Day (American Idiot) and seminal hip hop from Kanye (College Dropout), which
came out the same day as Get Away From Me, that was enough to make it the best
album of the year.”
Revisiting the album, Salon named it “one of the great pop albums of the early 21st
century.” Popmatters writes, “Two decades later, the circumstances and names
differ, but the anguish remains the same, as politicians, dictators, and other killers
make life hell for ordinary citizens.
track collection of rare recordings that led to McKay’s groundbreaking debut
album, Get Away From Me (2004). Gee Whiz will be available May 9, 2025 on
streaming, CD, and as a 2-LP set on Omnivore Recordings.
“I was attracted to the lyrics immediately,” says legendary Beatles engineer and
producer Geoff Emerick, who was drawn to the demos and produced Get Away
From Me. “Her level of maturity at such a young age is astounding. You come
across an artist of this caliber once every 10 or 15 years. And I don’t do a lot of
projects these days unless something really stands out, like this did.”
Composed, performed and produced by Nellie, these revelatory demos were
recorded in 2002 and sold by McKay as a series of handmade CD-R’s. The new
demo collection has been sequenced identically to Get Away From Me, with three
unreleased bonus songs, and mastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael
Graves.
When Get Away From Me was released on February 10, 2004, Rolling Stone gave
the album ★★★★. McKay made her national TV debut on The Late Show with
David Letterman, and the record landed in the Billboard Top 200. She was
compared to both “Doris Day and Eminem,” said NPR Morning Edition. “And throw
in a bit of Billie Holiday for good measure.” “It was a different time,” says Nellie.
“But if older reviewers—mostly men—scoffed at her juvenile assessment of George
Bush and world politics, with twenty years of hindsight, we can now say that she
was a lot more astute than many of the scholars writing at the time,” writes
Audiophix. “Nellie McKay—and her debut album—were not perfect. They were
better than that. They were real. And in a year that saw seminal punk from Green
Day (American Idiot) and seminal hip hop from Kanye (College Dropout), which
came out the same day as Get Away From Me, that was enough to make it the best
album of the year.”
Revisiting the album, Salon named it “one of the great pop albums of the early 21st
century.” Popmatters writes, “Two decades later, the circumstances and names
differ, but the anguish remains the same, as politicians, dictators, and other killers
make life hell for ordinary citizens.
Nellie McKay
Nellie McKay has released an eclectic bunch of critically acclaimed albums, her songs and sound ranging from jazz to pop to indefinable, and with her latest, HEY GUYS, WATCH THIS, ably assisted by The Carpenter Ants, she taps into thesoulful sounds of West Virginia. Coming soon, the GET AWAY FROM ME demos on
Omnivore Records.
She's won a Broadway Theatre World Award for Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, co-created/starred in off-Broadway's Old Hats, created musical biographies of Barbara Graham, Rachel Carson, Joan Rivers, & Billy Tipton ('Best Concerts of the Year' - The NewYork Times).
As well as acting in the films PS I Love You & Downtown Express, Nellie provided music for Rumor Has It, Monster-In-Law, Last Holiday, Gasland, Private Life, & PS I Love You.Her TV appearances include David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson, The View, and Jimmy Dore, and her music has been heard on Mad Men, Weeds, Boardwalk Empire, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, and Nurse Jackie.Most recently Nellie was nominated for an Ovation Award for her performance in
Ethan Coen's A Play is a Poem at the Mark Taper Forum.
McKay is a recipient of PETA's Humanitarian Award for her dedication to animal rights,& she is a vocal critic of endless war, capitalism, & the two-party system that sustains them.