Underrated singer/songwriter Jesca Hoop teamed with Iron & Wine singer Sam Beam earlier this year for the collaborative Love Letter for Fire, which came out on Iron & Wine’s pre-major label home Sub ...

Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam and experimental folk rocker Jesca Hoop have come together for a collection of songs that spotlight the time-honored tradition of the male and female duet on Love Letter For ...

It’s nothing personal, but singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop does not want to share every last detail of her life with her fans. “We’ve lost a lot of intrigue as artists because we’re expected to tell ...

In the early 2000s, Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, took initiative and got their 25-year-old nanny and California native, Jesca Hoop, in contact with music publisher Lionel Conway and ...

June 22, 2022 • All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares an anthemic call to action from Jesca Hoop, a song for a stressed-out brain from Dry Cleaning, and two tunes inspired by television shows.

Sam Beam of Iron & Wine and Jesca Hoop have partnered on a new duets album, 2016's "Love Letter for Fire," recorded in Portland with producer Tucker Martine. (Josh Wool) (Josh Wool) For nearly a ...

Jesca Hoop has crafted the perfect sonic palette to contest the direction society is heading. There’s nary a note on this record that doesn’t feel organic and earthy, as if Hoop assembled all of the ...

Without even listening to their new record, you can tell Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop are perfect complements for each other. “Neither of us had written a song with anyone else, so we both were like, ‘How ...

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I must admit a line in the press release reeled me into this one. Jesca Hoop, originally from California, worked “for five years as nanny to the children of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan.

Before Jesca Hoop teamed up with Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam for last year’s duets album, the beautiful Love Letter For Fire (and their FUV Live concert at Rockwood Music Hall) she had already released ...