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Jen Foster

Venice Beach

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Venice Beach


Jen Foster is an award-winning singer/songwriter who resides in Nashville, TN. Influenced heavily by classic artists such as the Rolling Stones, U2, and Bob Dylan, Jen has spent the last several months in a Nashville recording studio working on her upcoming third album, Thirty-Nine. Along with co-producer, Greg Droman, Jen put together an all-star group of musicians to perform on the tracks, including Peter Stroud (Sheryl Crow), Rami Jaffee (The Wallflowers), Sean Hurley (John Mayer,Vertical Horizon), and Fred Eltringham (The Wallflowers, Dixie Chicks, The Wreckers). The new project embodies a blend of sounds which range from soft, lazy-day melodies to more raucous guitar-driven tracks.

Some of these new songs have already garnered Jen national attention: the single “Closer to Nowhere” recently won first place in the International Songwriting Competition (Triple A category) and the accompanying music video for the song just hit 1 on the LOGO network. In addition, Jen's original song, “Venice Beach”, recently qualified as a finalist in the folk category of the 2008 John Lennon songwriting contest.

Previously, Jen has also secured some impressive Film/TV placements, with songs placed in the popular television soap opera All My Children as well as a recent placement in an American Pie movie sequel.

A four-song EP, "Songs From Thirty-Nine," features four tracks from the upcoming release Thirty-Nine, and is currently available at iTunes, CD Baby, & Amazon.com.

 

 

Hey, you say you’re looking for something you’ve never found
Well, the last time I checked I was lost and wanderin’ around
‘Cause I know just how it feels to be the best thing you ever had
But still not quite good enough to be the last one

And there you go again spinning all your wheels
You never know what you’ve got until you lose it
And here I am still waiting after all these years

You can look all over this great big world
You can look down every street
In every bookstore, on every dance floor
At every girl you meet
You can drive out to California
And chase down all of your dreams
I’m sure you’ll find someone beautiful
But you’ll never, you’ll never find me

Hey, they say that real love is completely letting go
Well, my hands are way up in the air and you’re somewhere in Arizona
Just a few more hundred miles and you’ll have everything you need
Except these arms to hold you when that lie brings you to your knees

And there you go again spinning all your wheels
You never know what you’ve got until you lose it
And here I am still waiting after all these years

You can look all over this great big world
You can look down every street
In every bookstore, in every dive bar
At every girl you meet
And when you look out over the ocean
From the shores of Venice Beach
I know you’ll find the brightest stars
But you’ll never, you’ll never find me
Oh, you’ll never find me....

Oh, you'll never find me
Oh...

You can look all over this great big world
You can look down every street
In every bookstore, in every dive bar
At every girl you meet
And when you look out over the ocean
From the shores of Venice Beach
I know you’ll find the brightest stars
But you’ll never, you’ll never find me
Oh, you’ll never find me....