Edie Brickell

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Edie Brickell

Background information
Born	March 10, 1966
Origin	Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
Genre(s)	Folk rock
Years active	1985 – present
Label(s)	Geffen
Associated acts	Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Website	www.ediebrickell.com

Edie Brickell (born March 10, 1966 in Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas, is an American singer-songwriter.

In the late 1980s Brickell was the lead singer of the folk rock group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was a critical and commercial success. The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), fared less well. As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and Volcano (2003). In 2006 she reunited with some of the original members of New Bohemians and they released the album Stranger Things.

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. Many computer users might know her from the Good Times video which was included as part of the multimedia samples on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM.

Brickell married songwriter Paul Simon in 1992. They have three children: first child, Adrian Edward, was born in 1992. Daughter Lulu Belle followed in 1995 and son Gabriel Elijah in 1998. Brickell was performing "What I Am" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "He made me mess the song up when I looked at him," she said with a smile. "We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.' " [1]

Brickell will release an album in 2007 co-produced by her step-son Harper Simon.

[edit] Discography

It's Like This (1986)
Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars (1988)
Ghost of a Dog (1990)
Picture Perfect Morning (1994)
The Live Montauk Sessions (2000)
The Ultimate Collection (2002)
Volcano (2003)
Stranger Things (2006)

[edit] Trivia

Brickell attended Southern Methodist University for a year and a half before, in 1985, making the decision one night in a bar to get up on stage with a local band, New Bohemians.[2]
Her father, Eddie Brickell, "the Fort Worth Southpaw", was posthumously inducted into the Texas State Bowling Association Hall of Fame [3] in 1988.
Her mother is named Larry. Her parents, who divorced when Edie was three, wanted a boy. Edie's first ambition was to play quarterback for Dallas Cowboys. Spin Magazine, March 1989
The scene in Born on the Fourth of July was filmed at The Hop (which stood for House of Pizza), a landmark venue in Fort Worth, Texas on Berry Street that Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin played early in their careers. New Bohemians also played there before, and after, Brickell joined the band. Some time after the movie the Hop was sold and soon closed its doors for good.
The hit "What I Am" is one of the most frequently played songs at Marshalls department store locations.^{[citation needed]}