Rebekah Jean

Based out of her rural Burton, Ohio home, she's a mixture of her rustbelt-meets-country upbringing.  Rebekah Jean spent her school years hopping around Cleveland's east side, eventually landing in the sleepy farm town of Burton—and it shows up all over her music. It's rougher around the edges, sometimes, but then she sings about her softer longings, and quiet rest. Her mother, a coal miner's daughter, inspired her first connection with Loretta Lynn's music years ago, and it's taken a country flair ever since. But you also hear her time spent with the hippie songstresses and outlaw cowboys her father played in the car radio--Joni Mitchell,Willie Nelson, Graham Nash.
Rebekah Jean also grew up with music in the southern gospel church community of Cleveland's east side and started playing with a bluegrass band with a revolutionary spin in her early twenties. But eventually her writing took over, and Rebekah needed another channel for her creative turns.
Cleveland area open mic nights led to coffee shops and bar gigs, and Rebekah Jean can now be found throughout the area playing her original songs at the Beachland Tavern and Grog Shop among other venues, mostly wailing ballads of some broken heart or place and time she's passed through.