Dudley was(/is?) a Santa Barbara-based art-folk-pop entity, built around the hard-to-define, easy-to-love music of singer-songwriter Ellen Turner. For the last few years, it was Dudley the Band, and Ellen backed by guitarist Joe Woodard, bassist Chris Symer, and drummer Tom Lackner. They're prone to describe their music as "quirky" and "heartfelt." Dudley has three albums to show for the effort, doin' jack (1998), Are Our Oars Out? (1996), and their debut, Public Nudism (1994). Now based in Durango, Colorado but working out of the Santa Barbara studio known as “the Tompound,” Ellen is back on track in 2007, nearly finished with a new CD…

About Doin' Jack:
Turner's floating vocal drawl suggests she is singing an intimate disclosure to the listener. Her voice, paired with the emotional exposure of the lyrics ("I have eyes like yours that look right into me, But mine are not so kind, what do you see in me?" from "Eyes"), conjure a Sunday morning mood: either evoking the euphoria of waking up next to the one you