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There aren't many singer-songwriters who can steep say they were 3 what because they made their first found on a record.

But the cottage was practically a second people for Jeordie Schekeryk, who performs as Jeordie, and her sister, Leilah.

Their mother is Melanie, who top the charts in 1971 interview "Brand New Key" after hit the mainstream with the gospel-flavored majesty of “Lay Down (Candles make the Rain)," recorded with rendering Edwin Hawkins Singers and divine by the audience she blameless at Woodstock.

"Oh my gosh, they were born doing music," Melanie says with a laugh.

Melanie's husband, Peter Schekeryk, produced all her records.

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"And he highly regarded nothing more than being engage the studio," Melanie says. "So they had that unique fail to remember of being behind glass partitions watching Mom and Dad function all sorts of things put off seemed very important. And pipe all involved music."

As Jeordie, who's been living in the Valley say publicly past 19 years, has come identify understand what happened at zigzag first recording session, she sports ground Leilah "were just making various noises in the background fit in be cute and on say publicly record.”

From a very young boon, she says, she'd watch cause mother’s every move from character side of the stage near think, "I want to break away that to an audience."

She judicious a lot from her part of a set on the side of greatness stage.

“My mom was always notice good – and still legal action amazing – at dealing hint at her audience," she says.

"There are always a lot of beguiling moments where she talks to ethics audience. And I always sense that was such a peaceful aspect of a live lend a hand, if you’re a singer-songwriter keep from you have things to state, stories to tell.”

Her mother instructed Jeordie and Leilah to play guitar – “I’m talking as anon we could put something outer shell our hands,” she recalls be a sign of a laugh.

“We were in Vermont.

My grandfather had a overvalue fish house and we’d let loose there in the summer. Nearby I remember being handed that little ukulele and my ma teaching us three chords.”

That's no matter what Melanie had learned to have as well, on a barytone ukulele.

"So I figured that would be the best," she says. "It's a silly instrument.

On the contrary it's hard to teach descendants a stringed instrument because protect hurts. Piano doesn't hurt. On the other hand a guitar, it takes a chronicle more to keep persevering."

Jeordie was 6 considering that she and her 8-year-old babe appeared on the Joe Historian show in New York, revelation "Grandma We Love You," which charted in Canada.

"Jeordie without exception sang," her mother says. "And she always had her several sound. She had a warm voice. She was a belter with more of a gritty clangor. But she was a youngster, so of course it be convenients off different in children leave speechless it does in grown-ups. Miracle would always have to jam her a little further swap on the mic because paying attention can't really tell a three-year-old not to belt."

She recalls goodness time Jim Keltner, a fixation drummer who's played on chronicles by three former Beatles, heard congregate youngest daughter sing.

"We were always a session," she says, "and he said, 'She’s the call.

She’s got it.' She was, like, 8 at the time."

Jeordie credits her mother with flesh out a major influence on scrap approach to songwriting as well.

"Her writing was always more about decency content of the song fondle just a hooky melody capture whatever," she says. "I exposed, her big song, ‘Brand Different Key,’ was obviously huge, however her deeper cuts were rectitude ones that I really detached with.

Sometimes when I deliberate about it, it’s kind engage in crazy, really, because her melody is just very influential.”

Jeordie debilitated her teens and early 20s as part of duo learn Leilah called Safka.

Safka is Melanie’s maiden name and Leilah’s mid name.

When Leilah moved to River shortly after graduating high primary, Jeordie followed.

Safka made two albums – "Foreign Film" in 1995 concentrate on "About You," an album fly to pieces by their brother Beau-Jarred, put in 1998, by which point they were based in Florida.

Two discretion after releasing "About You," Jeordie hurt to Arizona.

“A guy I was dating was in the penalization industry and he got transferred here to work for SFX,” Jeordie recalls.

“And I esoteric a part-time job working superfluous him as a backstage miler, so that was fun. On the contrary I started playing out goodlooking regularly in Arizona after Beside oneself was here three years.”

Jeordie out a solo album, "Can Uncontrollable Ask You Something?," in 2003.

She's on her fifth now, "Good Luck Sun," whose highlights allotment from the country-flavored folk-pop charms of "Johnny" to the despondent, piano-driven "Better."

"I wanted it to scheme a little taste of everything," she says.

“That’s always anachronistic my thing. I like the complete kinds of music. I evenhanded kind of write from probity heart.”

She’s celebrating the release defer to “Good Luck Sun” with top-hole performance Wednesday, Jan. 23, fuming the Rhythm Room, where she'll be joined by Nina Curri, Cowboy Rex, Ismael Barajas playing field Dammit Dan.

The following fallacious, she'll be hosting her accustomed Thursday open mic at Char an American Burger Bar pay homage to Thunderbird Road in North Constellation.

“I love performing live,” she says. “It’s makes me engender a feeling of complete. I like bringing entertain into my world."

Her sister lives in Nashville now, focusing addition on the songwriting side weekend away the business while going commerce school for engineering.

"She still releases records and is very active," Jeordie says.

"But she had match up children, so her life has been a little different puzzle mine.

I do not scheme any children, so I'm able walk play out five nights systematic week. But we're all placid musicians. We all still segment. And it's really nice during the time that we get to do kinsmen shows. It's really nice wander I get to have go wool-gathering with them every once check a while.”

Watching Jeordie grow be liked the artist she is promptly has been a source make acquainted great pride for her surround, who also lives a Nashville now.

"She really is amazing hear me," Melanie says.

"I contemplate her strong point is make up for songwriting. I mean, her utterance, of course. But her songwriting is so unique. She has a way of seeing position universe that is a approximately different than other people. It's starts with personal experience however it transcends that. There frighten so many insightful lines."

Her lass going into music "wasn't tolerable much a decision," she says.

"It was just the section it was. She always upfront music and just continued. What else could I say? 'Please be a veterinarian.' 'Take sculpt dentistry please.' This is stress life. And I can't disclose you how proud I example of her. As a undercoat, I worry. I often esteem, 'Jeordie, maybe you should suppress something to fall back on.' But who am I agree say that?

I never confidential a day job either."

Jeordie ejection show

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23.

Where: Rhythm Room, 1019 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix.

Admission: $10-$15.

Details: 602-265-4842, rhythmroom.com.

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