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Versatility has never been a problem or a pose for singer JulieChristensen, whose voicefound a home in the L.A. post-punk band Divine Horsemenand, for years, as a spotlightedsinger with Leonard Cohen. With Something Familiar, her thirdCD, she adds another genrefeather to the cap: jazz. Singing standards, and in her ownsignature style, is actuallynothing new for the vocalist. In her sundry travels,geographically and musically, she hasdipped into the Great American Songbook for years, from hernative Iowa to years spent inAustin and Los Angeles, and onto her current life, based inOjai, California. SomethingFamiliar is more than a standards festival. The album title itselfis taken from a fascinatingJimmy Webb-penned rarity, “Just Like Marilyn,” There is alsothe original “Hard to Love,”and a gritty-bluesy workout, “Today I Sing the Blues.” Withher keyboardist and longtimecreative cohort Karen Hammack, Christensen tracked inBrooklyn with noted jazzdrummers Jeff Ballard and Kenny Wollesen, alongsidebassists Mary Ann McSweeney andDon Falzone. Back on the west coast, trumpeter Jeff Elliottand pedal steel guitarist-of-note Greg Liesz added their spices to the mix. The end resultis a fresh twist on oldmusical values, something familiar yet also otherwise.
post-Polka
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2003
Track listing: Days of the Week; A World Without Polka; Wyatt's Burp; Puck's Polka; Moderate Moderation; Of
Waltzes; We're on Another Level; Turnip of the Year; Spencer the Polka Dispenser; Picture of
Health; Divertimental; Splinkety Polka; Here's to the Heimlich Maneuver; Bolka.
For Americana Recording Artist, Julie Christensen, Cathartic Journey Prompts Album -- Weeds Like Us -- While New Leonard Cohen Biography Marks Her Role In Legendary Career
Julie Christensen'S “WEEDS LIKE US” CD Candidly Reveals a Cathartic Journey of Loss and Survival Bringing “Great Plains Soul” to Acclaimed Career of Americana Singer-Songwriter While Release of New Leonard Cohen Biography Documents Christensen's Pivotal, Musical Role in Legendary Career Los Angeles, CA: It is a busy season for Julie Christensen, whose critically-acclaimed recordings, and longtime ...
Sometihing Familiar
Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Just Like Marilyn; Never Will I Marry; But Beautiful; Have You Met Miss Jones?; Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue; Stolen Moments; Billie's Bounce; Blame It On My Youth; Today I Sing the Blues; Hard to Love; Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.
Julie Christensen: Sometihing Familiar
by Michael P. Gladstone
Julie Christensen is a jazz vocalist with a very non-jazz past, who can easily win you over with her unusual delivery and choice of material. Something Familiar begins with Jimmy Webb's obscure “Just Like Marilyn," and seems about as far away from a jazz opener as one can get. By the time ...
Blur Joan
By Joe Woodard
Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Blur Joan; Plaything; Brownie; Ambushed by Serenity; Then Was the Time; babble; Bluer in the
Face; Buffoons; Door of the 4/3; Monk's Day Off; Walk Cycle; Sunday Go to Meetin' (Dream on Your
Time).
Free Associations
Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Tiddly Wink; My Baby Left Brain; Requiem for a Vacant Lot; The Eiffel Tower Made Easy; Laconics
1 (Mancheadlessini); Honey, I'm Home; Green Swipe Pattern; The Real of the Lake; Surf
Punctuation; Angry Poodle; Man (with) Hat (and) Tan; Sullen Gypsum; fragMentor.
