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Edie Brickell
Background information
Birth name	Edie Arlisa Brickell
Born	(1966-03-10) March 10, 1966 (age 52) Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Alternative rock Folk rock Jangle pop Jam rock Neo-psychedelia
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Geffen
Associated acts	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians The Heavy Circles The Gaddabouts Steve Martin Steep Canyon Rangers
Website	ediebrickell.com

Edie Arlisa Brickell (born March 10, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter widely known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, which went to No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart. She is married to Paul Simon.

Early life

Brickell was born in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, to Larry Jean (Sellers) Linden and Paul Edward Brickell.^[1][2] She was raised with her older sister, Laura Strain. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts^[3] in Dallas, and later studied at Southern Methodist University until she joined a band and decided to focus on songwriting.

Music career

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

In 1985, Brickell was invited to sing one night with friends from her high school in a local folk rock group, New Bohemians. She would join the band as lead singer. After the band was signed to a recording contract, the label changed the group's name to Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Their 1988 debut album, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, became a critical and commercial success, including the single "What I Am." The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), was a deliberate effort to highlight the band's eclectic personality and move away from the pop sensibility of their first record.^{[citation needed]}

The band sporadically played gigs after the album Ghost of a Dog in 1990, and in 2006 released Stranger Things.^[4][5] In 2018 they announced their latest album, Rocket, along with dates for a US tour.^[6]

Solo career

Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July. Her version of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is featured on the film's soundtrack. She also sang a cover version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" in the 1990 film Flashback.

As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and Volcano (2003). The video for Picture Perfect Morning's "Good Times" was included as part of the multimedia samples featured on Microsoft's Windows 95 Companion CD-ROM.^[7] In 1992, she worked with producer Bob Wiseman in New York and Toronto on a collection of songs, utilizing a wind ensemble, unusual keyboards, and Ron Sexsmith. The songs were rejected by the record company and remained unreleased.

The Gaddabouts

In 2010, Brickell became a founding member of new band The Gaddabouts, consisting of Steve Gadd on drums, Edie Brickell as lead vocalist and guitar, Andy Fairweather Low on electric and acoustic guitars and background vocals, Pino Palladino on bass and guitar, and featuring Dan Block, Ronnie Cuber, Joey DeFrancesco, Gil Goldstein, and Marcus Rojas.^[8] In 2011, Brickell wrote the title track, "The Meaning of Life," for Tamar Halpern's film, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life.

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell

Love Has Come for You was released on April 23, 2013. The album is a collaboration with Steve Martin.^[9] Both appeared on talk shows, such as The View and Late Show with David Letterman, to promote and perform the song in April 2013.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Starting in May 2013, she toured with Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers throughout North America.^[14]

In 2016, the musical Bright Star — to which she contributed music, lyrics, and story^[15] — opened on Broadway at the Cort Theatre.

In 2017, Brickell and Martin appeared in the award-winning documentary film The American Epic Sessions directed by Bernard MacMahon. They recorded “The Coo Coo Bird”, a traditional English folk song,^[16] live on the first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s.^[17] The track appeared on the accompanying soundtrack, Music from The American Epic Sessions.

Personal life

Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992.^[18] Brickell was performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live on November 5, 1988, when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "Even though I'd performed the song hundreds of times in clubs, he made me forget how the song went when I looked at him. We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'" Brickell and Simon have three children: Adrian, Lulu, and Gabriel.^[19]

Discography

Albums

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  It's Like This... (cassette-only, 1986)


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  Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988) US #4, 2x platinum
  


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  Ghost of a Dog (1990)


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  Picture Perfect Morning (1994)


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  The Live Montauk Sessions (2000)


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  The Ultimate Collection (2002)


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  Volcano (2003)


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  Stranger Things (2006)


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  The Heavy Circles (2008) – The Heavy Circles


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  Edie Brickell (2011)


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  The Gaddabouts (2011) – The Gaddabouts


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  Look Out Now! (2012) – The Gaddabouts


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  Love Has Come for You (2013) – with Steve Martin
  


• 
  LIVE: Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell (2014)


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  So Familiar (2015) – with Steve Martin^[20]
  


• 
  Rocket (2018)

Singles

• "Pretty Little One" (Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell)^[21]
  


• "Like to Get to Know You" (duet with Paul Simon). (2014)^[22]
  


• "What I Am" (1988) #7 on US Billboard Hot 100

Other contributions

• 
  MSG Grateful Dead 1993 (09-20-1993) – "Space> The Other One> GDTRFB"


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  Trios (1994) – Rob Wasserman
  


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  Windows 95 (1995) – "Good Times" Video


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  First Wish (1995) – Chris Botti
  


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  WFUV: City Folk Live VII (2004) – "Take a Walk"


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  Music from The American Epic Sessions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017) – "The Coo Coo Bird"

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edie Brickell.

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Edie Brickell

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  Edie Brickell official website


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  New Bohemians official website


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  Edie Brickell in Allmusic
  


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  Edie Brickell on IMDb