Boise-born and Boston-based Eilen (rhymes with feelin') Jewell calls herself "nothing but a lonely rambler girl." Her voice will stop you in your tracks, and her songs mix classic country with a contemporary sensibility, drawing on influences from Billie Holiday to Hank Williams to Bob Dylan, and especially Gillian Welch. The L.A. Daily News describes Jewell this way: "Sometimes as darkly damaged as Lucinda Williams, at others as defiant and teasing as prime Peggy Lee and always authentically Americana in the Gillian Welch tradition . . . She's mighty good." Here's a young artist who connects with the roots of country and Western swing without losing herself or descending into mannerism. Eilen comes to town with a new album, "Sea of Tears," that the Iowa Press-Citizen calls "a haunting, utterly seductive visit to the dark side of the soul."