TERESA JENEE WITH ARTISTIK APPROACH AND DJ MANUS

Friday at the Rumba Room, 303 S, Main St. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $10, available in advance online at neosoulsville.com/ soulove. structure my songs in my own ballads. I love how they tell stories. Even in country music, I love the stories.”

Jenee’s early music experience came from playing woodwinds at her school. At age 9 she began taking piano where she at last found an outlet for the songs she says she was writing in her head for as long as she can remember.

In college at Tennessee State University, however, Jenee defied her parents’ wish for her to study music and majored in communications instead.

“I still was a part of the music program,” says Jenee, who sang in choirs during college and traveled so often to Memphis that she considers it her “third home” after St. Louis and Nashville. “I just didn’t want music to be a course I had to study. I wanted it to still be fun.”

Back in St. Louis after graduation, Jenee started performing at area open mic nights where she caught the attention of a Mound City native, acclaimed musician and producer Osunlade (Musiq Soulchild, Vivian Green, Eric Roberson).

Osunlade gave the young artist a boost when he remixed her song “Remember” for his 2008 album Passage and later released two of Jenee’s EPs on his Yoruba label. Those records introduced the blend of electronica, world beat, jazz, and soul that Jenee further honed on The Ecklectic, and seems to have perfected on Electric Yellow, which is available for free download on her Bandcamp site.

“I want this record to get into as many hands as possible, and I didn’t want price to be an excuse,” says Jenee.

For the past six years, s i nge r - songwr i te r s “Wreckless” Eric Goulden and Amy Rigby have made a fine double act.

Though each was well known and separately established — Goulden as the British-born Stiff Records alum and author of the immortal punk romancer “Whole Wide World”; Rigby as the critically acclaimed New York indie-pop songstress — they’ve created a new identity together over the course of three fantastic albums. Their partnership is more than just professional; the couple were married in 2007.

“We used to do what we did apart, and now we do what we did together,” says Goulden, who will be in Memphis along with Rigby to perform Sunday evening at Cooper-Young’s Burke’s Books.

The Goulden/Rigby