Jen Trynin

American singer

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Jen Trynin
Birth name	Jennifer Trynin
Born	New Jersey, United States
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, author
Years active	1994–2006, 2015-present

Website	www.jentrynin.com

Musical artist

Jennifer Trynin (born 1963), is an American singer-songwriter and author from Boston, Massachusetts.^[1]

Career

She recorded her debut album Cockamamie in 1994 while running her own desktop publishing business. The track "Better Than Nothing" received considerable airplay on alternative rock radio stations across the United States. She later released her second album, Gun Shy Trigger Happy, in 1997. Trynin would later release a book entitled Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be in 2006 about her experience in the music industry.

Trynin played guitar for Dave Wanamaker's band Loveless, who released an album, Gift to the World, in 2003. After Loveless broke up, she took a break from music to raise her daughter.

In 2015, Trynin formed the band Cujo and began playing semi-regularly at small clubs in and around Boston.

In 2018, Trynin joined Band of Their Own, an all-female supergroup formed to perform at Hot Stove Cool Music, the annual benefit show supporting the Foundation to be Named Later, the charity established by former Boston Red Sox and current Chicago Cubs executive Theo Epstein and his twin brother Paul Epstein. Band of Their Own also features among others Kay Hanley, Freda Love Smith, Tanya Donelly, Gail Greenwood, Magen Tracy, and Jennifer D'Angora. In keeping with the baseball and all-female theme, they chose the name "Band of Their Own" as a tribute to the documentary and subsequent film A League of Their Own about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; the band's logo, designed by Greenwood, is modeled on the logo of the AAGPBL.

Personal life

Trynin married Q Division Studios co-founder Mike Denneen, who produced Cockamamie, Gun Shy Trigger Happy, and Gift to the World, in 2000.^[2] Their daughter, Grace Trynin Denneen, was born in 2003.^[3] They remained married until his death from colon cancer in July 2018.^[4]

In November 2018, as a tribute to her late husband, Trynin and her daughter performed "Stacy's Mom," a hit song that Denneen produced for Fountains of Wayne, with Letters to Cleo at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, featuring Grace on lead vocals. They performed the same tribute with Band of Their Own at Hot Stove Cool Music in February 2019, also at the Paradise Rock Club and again with Grace on lead vocals.

She is of Jewish origin and her husband was a non-practicing Catholic.^[5]

Works

Discography

Trespassing (12" vinyl EP and cassette) – Pathfinder Records – 1988
Cockamamie (CD) – Warner Brothers/Squint Records – 1994
Gun Shy, Trigger Happy (CD) – Warner Brothers – 1997

with the band LOVELESS

Loveless EP (CD) – Q Division – 2001
Gift to the World (CD) – Q Division – 2003

Compilations

For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson (CD) Music Masters Jazz – 1995 (track "Mourning Glory Story")
Safe and Sound: A Benefit in Response to the Brookline Clinic Violence (CD) Mercury Records – 1996 (track "Don't Take It Out On Me")
Respond – A Compilation by Boston Women to Benefit Respond, Inc. (CD) Signature Sounds – 1999 (track "Sad Girl")
Viva Noel: a Q Division Christmas (CD) Q Division – 1999 (track "The Christmas Song")

Charting single(s)

"Better Than Nothing" (1995) – US Modern Rock Tracks #15,^[6] US Mainstream Rock Tracks #40,^[7] AUS #89^[8]

Bibliography

Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be (ISBN 0-15-101148-6) – Harcourt Press – 2006

References

^ "JEN TRYNIN FINDS THE CLUES TO HER IDENTITY". The Philadelphia Inquirer. February 6, 1998. Retrieved April 24, 2011.
^ "MICHAEL J. DENNEEN Obituary (1963 - 2018) Boston Globe". Legacy.com.
^ "Rocker Grrrl Memoir Charts Swift Decline". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. April 6, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
^ "Mike Denneen, whose sharp producing instincts guided musicians and bands, dies at 54". The Boston Globe. July 18, 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
^ "Rocker Grrrl Memoir Charts Swift Decline". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. April 6, 2006. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
^ "Billboard > Artists / Jennifer Trynin > Chart History > Alternative Songs". Billboard. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^ "Billboard > Artists / Jennifer Trynin > Chart History > Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – Week Ending 15 Oct 1995". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved July 6, 2017. N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached.