Jenny Owen Youngs

Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey. Youngs played the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At 14, she began to play the guitar. She graduated from State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in studio composition. Her album Batten the Hatches was self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, "Fuck Was I", appeared in the second seaso... more

Jenny Owen Youngs (born November 22, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey. Youngs played the flute in elementary school and the tuba in junior high school. At 14, she began to play the guitar. She graduated from State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in studio composition. Her album Batten the Hatches was self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, "Fuck Was I", appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime's Weeds, resulting in Batten the Hatches being re-released on April 10, 2007 with new artwork and an extra track ("Drinking Song") on the Canadian indie label Nettwerk. "Fuck Was I" was also released on Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Vol. 2. In addition to her solo career, she is in the band The Robot Explosion, a side project with fellow musicians and friends Bess Rogers, Andrew Futral, and Saul Simon-MacWilliams. She also takes part in an online Podcast through myspace with Bess Rogers and Andrew Futral, titled... less