Lynn Blakey

When talking about Lynn Blakey’s place in the music world, you have to start with her voice. Distinctive and bell-clear, sometimes plaintive and always honest, Blakey’s voice is the underpinning of her appeal and of her acclaim, both as a frontwoman and as a guest vocalist. It’s an instrument that hushes crowds and makes grown men cry. I know because I’ve witnessed the hush and I’ve been that grown man. Her impassioned vocals and inspired songwriting have m
ost recently found a home in the beloved and pop-rocking Glory Fountain, and in the harmony-driven all-girl super-group Tres Chicas. She has also added her voice to recordings by such notables as Alejandro Escovedo (A Man Under the Influence), Jeffrey Dean Foster (Million Star Hotel), The Velvet Crush, and many others.

In recent years she has released several albums including @Glory Fountain's Blame Love, and The Beauty of 23 (La Joy), as well as @Tres Chicas' Sweetwater, and Bloom Red and the Ordinary Girl (Yep Roc). Both ensembles toured throughout the US and Europe

Blakey’s newest endeavors are supported by her husband Ecki Heins, who lends sympathetic harmonies and sweeping fiddle lines. A five-song E.P. “Meadowview”was recorded with notable North Carolina producer Jerry Kee.

Recently, Blakey released a Christmas CD with Ecki Heins, toured with @The Salt Collective, 2024, and has been recording songs for that project's 2025 release.

—Rick Cornell, The Independent Weekly, No Depression, Oxford American