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Read review of her lastest CD, "Leona Naess" on Collected Sounds. Concert review At the 400 Bar in Minneapolis, October 11, 2003. CD Review of "I Tried To Rock You But You Only Roll" At Emergent Music. Band Builder.com hear sound clips from her new self-titled CD. Leona Naess (2003)
I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll (2001)
Comatised (2000)
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 Leona Naess
Leona Naess was raised in the U.K. but headed for the States at 18, leaving behind the Purcell Music School in favor of anthropology at NYU. In the past, she's talked down her one year of formal music schooling as unemotional and unspontaneous. These days, she continues to value a uniqueness of expression that can't be learned in any class, but wishes she could write down more of the music in her head.
By the time she graduated from college, Naess had made a reputation for herself on the New York club scene, attracting the attention of producer Scott Litt's now-defunct Outpost label. Ultimately, that connection resulted in her 2000 MCA debut Comatised, followed by 2001's I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll. Over the course of the two records Naess toured with Eagle-Eye Cherry, David Gray and Ryan Adams, earned comparisons to Jeff Buckley, Edie Brickell, Beth Orton and Carole King, and scored rave reviews from the likes of Time, Rolling Stone, Flaunt and Detour.
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