DEBUT ALBUM
Songwriter, Pianist and Singer
Jared Feinman’s
Debut LP
Love Is an Obstacle
Available Now
Featuring Four Clusters of
Love Songs for The Lovelorn
And Murder Ballads
Album Cover Photo: Clay Patrick McBride
Design: Sarah Keane
New Life [Official Video]
Directed by Tommy Czerpak
Release Date: 3.4.2021
Label: West of Philly
Premiered by Parade
Love Is an Obstacle
Release Date: 2.12.21
Label: West of Philly
Track Listing
Cluster A
“Butterflies and Blues” - moves anxiously as vivid imagery that melds hard luck with delicate hope.
“Prelude/Inside a Reverie” - a dreamy and devastating look back on love with its own gorgeous instrumental prelude.
“88” - lays relatable worries bare over piano and harmonica.
Cluster B
“Love Is an Obstacle” - pinpoints intimacies with disarming detail.
“(Let's Sing For) Love and Be Free” - cries out for reconciliation in the midst of a fractured world.
Cluster C
“All My Life” - pining for what can’t be.
“Wait for the Judge” - a powerful, biblical statement on patience.
“New Life” - yearning fueled by tender attention to telling detail.
Cluster D
“Inside a Reverie (Reprise)” - revisiting the fragility of a lost soul in love's aftermath.
“The Sinner's Last Song” - a self-deprecating heartbreaker, anchored in tearful but sly jazz phrasing.
“Some Final Thoughts” - a stunner with only strings, somber and majestic.
PRESS CLIPPINGS
2021
Parade Magazine - Video Premiere
Wonderland - Video Premiere
Magnet Magazine - Isolation Drill
Americana Highways - Album Review
Take Effect - Album Review
Music-News.com - Album Review
WVIA's George Graham - Album Review
O's Place Jazz - Album Review
DELCO Daily Times - Album Interview
WFUV's Paul Calvaconte - Radio Play
Main Line Today - Album Feature
GigSoup
Jazz Weekly - Album Review
Don's Tunes - Feature
25 O'clock Podcast - Interview
Main Line Times - Featured Interview
American Blues Scene - Interview
2020
No Depression - 'Fresh Tracks' Premiere
Independent Philly
American Songwriter - Video Premiere
Philadelphia Weekly - Five Questions
Main Line Today - 'In The Hot Seat'
Jewish Exponent - 'Philly Faces'
American Blues Scene - Video Premiere
Philadelphia Globe