Jamie Pressnall

Jamie Pressnall Biography

Jamie Lynn Pressnall (born 13 March 1976, as Jamie Williams) is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska and is a member of the band Tilly and the Wall. She was also in a band with Clark Baechle, Neely Jenkins, and Conor Oberst called Park Ave. and a band called Magic Kiss with Kianna Alarid. Her innovative use of tap dancing as percussion in Tilly and the Wall is one of the band's most distinctive characteristics.

Career

Formerly a kindergarten teacher, Jamie Pressnall joined Tilly and the Wall in 2001, and played the guitar and sang.

Biography

Personal life

She married bandmate Derek Pressnall on August 12, 2006, whom she started dating soon after Tilly and the Wall formed. She is sometimes still known as Jamie Williams, which is her maiden name. Of Montreal played at the wedding. She gave birth to her and Derek's first child, a daughter named Willa Sun, in December 2009. Their second child, son Max Wilde, was born in 2012.

She has been a vegetarian for over 17 years, and is a supporter of animal rights.

Album appearances

Son, Ambulance - Someone Else's Dj Vu (2008, Saddle Creek Records)

Trivia

Has a tattoo of a ship on her left shoulder.
Jamie was 37th on NME's Cool List in 2006.