Martha's Trouble wins Just Plain Folks Award in Best Americana Album Category

TORONTO, Canada (Martha's Trouble Official Website) - Canadian music duo Martha's Trouble (Jen and Rob Slocumb) have won the "Best Americana Album of the Year" at the Just Plain Folks Awards for their 2003 release "Sleeping Dogs." The category recognizes outstanding music which mixes rock, country, blues, bluegrass and folk.
Martha's Trouble, who were nominated for an additional six awards, performed their song "Brighter From Here" at the awards ceremony. The event was held on November 7th in Santa Ana, CA, at the Galaxy Concert Theatre. Their awards show entries were among over 10,000 albums and 140,000 songs from 85 countries. Just Plain Folks is a community of over 25,000 music industry individuals and artists and serves as a networking, support, and educational gathering place for its members.

Canadian music duo Martha's Trouble (Jen and Rob Slocumb) released their fifth full-length album, "Forget October," on October 5th. Hitting the streets on their own Aisling Records Label, the album is being distributed nationwide in the United States via Oarfin. The married pair split their time and their touring between the U.S. and Canada.
As the Record-Eagle in Traverse City, MI said of them, "It's commonplace to refer to folk artists as modern-day troubadours, traveling from town to town with their songs like the wandering musicians of old. But Rob and Jen Slocumb actually live that rootless wandering existence."
The fact that they list two current homebases on their press materials (Ancaster, Ontario and Opelika, Alabama) certainly supports that mentality. Of Jen Slocumb's voice, the press has called her singing "haunting, mesmerizing, mystical, seductive, entrancing," and "spine-tingling... rich with experience, conviction and wonder." They've compared her to the likes of Natalie Merchant and Aimee Mann.