"A master of the opening line."
ELISE CADY
Americana Highways

The lyrics identify a challenging element of human experience — how to really understand the other, and how to understand our own kids. Food for thought.

MELISSA CLARKE
Americana Highways

"I was really taken by your music..."
BILL LIPPE
Long-time Seattle House Concert Promoter
"Songs like impressionist paintings"
VICKI AMBINDER
studio producer, film producer, music performance coach, musician
"A Sandy Denny-esque quality"
CHICAGO MIKE BECK
Access Film Music, Big Ugly Music & Media, musician
"I really loved hearing your story and words of wisdom regarding your songwriting journey...
and then getting to hear your beautiful songs. What a treat."
KATIE MITCHELL
Standing O Project
 
More words from Katie Ann Mitchell a few years later: 
"Your songs are incantations of light."

Marilyn grew up in the forests and savannahs of Oregon, where she walked in the rain, climbed oak trees, and read books from the Carnegie library -- when she wasn't making up songs on her parents' hundred-year-old piano. 

As an adult, she saw first-hand some of the tragedies that life can deliver, which expanded her understanding of the kinds of challenges, pain, and joy that no one escapes completely. She found that others craved what she'd learned -- gratitude for patience, compassion, healthcare -- things that were also showing up in her songs.

Marilyn Jordan is a jamband-inspired singer-songwriter who creates songs like impressionist paintings, from her native rural Oregon. Drawing on themes of home, hiding out, and running like hell, Marilyn tells stories of badass adventures through this bittersweet life, with intriguing stories and soul-saving sense of humor.

"You're such a badass, Marilyn"
JAY COBB ANDERSON
rockstar @ FRUITION  and  
TK & THE HOLY KNOW NOTHINGS

"You're one of my very favorite badasses"
JOHN LALONDE
compulsive music junkie