JUNO-nominated and Maple Blues Award winning Miss Emily returns with her new album, The Medicine. Released by Gypsy Soul Records on November 7^th, the album is produced by Grammy winner Colin Linden (Keb’ Mo’, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Gregg Allman, Diana Krall). To coincide, the focus track “The Medicine” will also be released.  Watch the official lyric video for the title track single HERE.

Order The Medicine album on vinyl and CD HERE.  Stream the album digitally HERE.

The title track “The Medicine” is an empathetic plea to understand one of the most complex issues of our times. It was written after a family member of an overdose victim reached out to Emily to write a song representing the victims and families affected by overdose.

The new album blends soul, blues, and roots, and features an all-star cast of musicians at the top of their game. Including players from Bob Dylan and Keb’ Mo’s bands, the new album pairs her thunderous voice with songs of truth and resilience. Known for her powerful voice and exhilarating live shows, Miss Emily channels two decades of raw experience into music that heals and uplifts.

Miss Emily has a voice that demands your attention. She is never predictable. She values community above all else. For more than 20 years she has channeled those principles in her songwriting and performance, never shying away from an open conversation with her audience about the struggles she has faced.

Whether it was domestic violence or being a musical road-warrior and a single mother at the same time, Emily has always opened her heart in a communal invitation to share, heal and celebrate.

During the writing process for The Medicine that commitment was tested. “I wasn’t in a great head space,” she says, her voice cracking under the emotional weight of the memory. “Like so many of us, sometimes life brings you down. In one of my darker moments, I wrote an angry song. Then, as I continued prepping the songs, I realised I didn’t want anger to be a prominent theme on my new album. I wanted to celebrate community. I wanted to record music that made people feel better.”

Photo Credit: Jillian Lorraine Photography

That inclination towards joyful truth was cultivated over more than two decades of playing night after night in bars and nightclubs along the busy Canadian highway corridor between Toronto and Montreal. Along with exhilarating, heart-wrenching performances, Emily developed a work ethic that drew the attention of promoters at regional theatres and festivals. In 2019 Miss Emily won three Canadian Maple Blues awards: Female Vocalist of the year, Newcomer of the year and Video of the Year. In 2022, she was nominated for a JUNO for Blues Album of the Year and won Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the year in 2021 and 2023.

Brad Wheeler of Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail said it perfectly, “She’s got a voice on her like big velvet thunder.”

That thunderous voice is highlighted on the soulful, anthemic first single “Stand Together, Band Together,” a celebration and reflection of community and humanity. These are the cornerstones of everything Miss Emily has been doing for more than two decades. At some point every night, on every tour, in every venue, she will open her arms wide and invite the people to join her in song. It’s a momentary risk but as the voices fill the room in unison and celebration, it’s an affirmation that, in this unpredictable world, the communal celebration of music is the medicine that binds us together.

ALBUM TRACK LISTING

1. My Freedom (3:01)
2. Stand Together, Band Together (5:23)
3. The Medicine (3:28)
4. Maybe (4:12)
5. You Make Believe (3:04)
6. Running Again (3:25)
7. Solid Ground (4:11)
8. Smith’s Bay Drowning (4:36)
9. Remember This Song (5:20)

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Miss Emily – Vocals

Guitar – Colin Linden

George Recile – Drums

David Santos – Bass

Michael Hicks – Hammond B3

All songs written by Emily Fennell, except Track 8 written by S. Pastenak with Poem by Miss Shannon

Track 4 cowritten with R. Baker, Track 6 cowritten with Colin Linden

Produced and mixed by Colin Linden in Nashville, Tennessee
Mastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, New Jersey

Additional engineer: Michael Stankiewicz

Production assistant: Janice Powers