The third record from Eilen Jewell, Sea of Tears, evokes the era of classic country and early British-invasion era blues rock. On her third album Eilen Jewell is more Dusty Springfield than Gillian Welch. Sea of Tears finds Jewell acknowledging her electric influences and the roots of rock and roll on the album's twelve tracks.
On the record she pays homage to British invasion of the sixties, bands like The Kinks and The Animals; her forlorn, yet confident, delivery matches slow rock and resonant guitar sounds throughout the record.
Although nine of the tracks are Jewell originals, the entire album could easily have been recorded over forty years earlier.