Jennifer Turner is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer.
Career
1991–1997: session and touring guitar player
Turner first became popular for her work writing and touring with
Natalie Merchant[1] on her multi-platinum album Tigerlily as guitarist and backing vocalist[2]
alongside
Peter Yanowitz on drums and Barrie Maguire on bass guitar.[3] She then went on to play acoustic guitar on the
Mary J Blige album Share My World. In 1997, Turner was invited by
Miles Copeland III to join
Soraya's live band on guitar.
Turner broke from Virgin to form an independent record label, Caboose Music, a subsidiary of the Virgin group. In 2001, using Inner as an alias, she released two records on her own independent record label. Inner's first release was the EP Dog Demos, followed by the full-length album Lovetheonlyway the year after.[8]
2007–present: band member, producer and engineer, actor
Through the middle of the 2000s, Turner kept a lower profile, mostly working in bands, but not as frontperson.[9] Starting in 2006, Turner worked with
Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts, played guitar in
Santigold's band and joined
Here we go magic, playing bass and keyboard. Turner produced and engineered the band's 2010 album Pigeons and The January, a 2011 EP.
In 2015
Taylor McLam (drums, vocals) and
Chris Traynor (guitar, vocals) started working on music together. Turner (guitar, vocals),
Gabriella Da Silva (vocals),
Drew Broadrick (piano, vocals) and
Sibyl Buck (bass, vocals) joined in, forming
High Desert Fires.[12] They released their first EP in 2015. That year, she joined the lineup of
The Lemonheads for several tours, garnering rave reviews for 'invigorating the band'.[13] In 2012, the British music magazine NME did a feature on 'dream band line-ups', in which Turner was named as a bass player, one of the only contemporary musicians on the list.