Recorded at the kitchen table in her east Austin home with band members and musician friends, Minstrel's Daughter is dedicated to Jennifer Leonhardt's parent's musical influence.

Co-produced with guitarist/producer Jeff Rady, the majority of the record got put down on a bunch of old Shure 57 mics in a month's time, resulting in a stripped-down, homemade concoction of contrasting sounds: layered cello, violin and dobro, plain acoustics and raw guitar-driven blues.

The wild, ramshackle instrumentation on the title track suggests the laboring of the whole human condition, just getting by in a frayed and broken-down world, lyrically noting struggles like a road map while suggesting hope. Throughout, the vocals wrap around the oddly emotional and unexpected rhythmic changes with the effect of a gin-and-tonic baptism, earthy one minute, ethereal the next and the deceptively simple compositions have a melodic spaciousness which frame her vocals perfectly.

A powerfully personal revelation of songs, the album is a gentle but gritty referendum on love and survival by an artist who, in an era of patented conformity, is clearly thinking for herself.

Track Listing:
1 Neruda
2 Dido
3 Make it the Mountain
4 Minstrel's Daughter
5 More Rope
6 Me & Abigail
7 Line of Fire
8 Black Madonna
9 Let the Wretched Come Home  
10 Kerby Lane Jubilee

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