#NerdsUnite: Midwest Music (Jessica Furney)

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Just recently, the bar I haunt Auntie Maes, had something called Free Music Fridays... because paying three bucks to see a musician is outrageous. Sigh... people can be so cheap. It’s put on by the local paper I work for called, “The Hype.” So I was there supporting the local musicians. Mostly, for my little sister’s boyfriend’s metal band, “White.” So imagine my surprise when directly following the dark metal they performed, came the voice of an angel accompanied by guitar. A stark contrast to the metal for sure. I checked the flyer for the show and found the new singer to be Jessica Furney. I was struck by the raw power her vocals sent out. Her voice drawing a crowd of drunken bar flies to an almost silence. Listening intently to her sing her original songs and covering some well-known ones in her own way. Song after song as she held our attention fast. I dared not even chance a conversation for fear of missing a single note.

I thought surely, this voice has had more of a following than this tiny bar. Finding out later in conversation, that she had actually made top 46 on American Idol. From hearing her that night, I can honestly say they cut her off short. She should have made the finals. Her takes on songs both contemporary and from days of old breathed new life into each incarnation. She summoned a force that rushed through the crowded bar like a hurricane gale.  Each selection followed with thunderous applause. “This should not have been a free show,” I kept thinking to myself. 

Luckily, I caught her singing, “House of the Rising Sun.” It may just be the opinion of one humble writer, but her voice moves something inside of you. While this is just a cover and you can well say, “Sure, anyone can sing someone elses music.” She later linked me to her personal Youtube channel where she had several original works posted. All of which I heard that night too. Still you may not have had a chance to sample her soulful voice brought to light with lyrics that play across your heart. Tempting the forlorn to act, brings couples closer, and ending every night with a kiss of her sweetest music. Let me enlighten you to her own works crafted with the heart of a girl,  that has so much more to offer to the world than the few songs for an American Idol. She breathes life into the heart land with verses to sway the soul.

So in closing if you have heard Jessica Furney... if unlike me you chanced upon her in American Idol and always wished you could have heard more. Please give her some love on her Youtube Channel and spread the word of this sweet songstress. She has the drive to prove herself for far more than this town has to offer her. That being said I feel so blessed to have witnessed her in my own favorite bar. Maybe someday I will PAY to hear her singing for audiences of thousands. God willing fate will choose her to move your heart too.

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