A ride through the Great Plains landscape of Julie's stone cupid soul, evoking the influences of Joni Mitchell, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, the Staple Singers, k.d.lang, sweet 1970's soul and Americana.
Julie Christensen's second CD is under t [+]A ride through the Great Plains landscape of Julie's stone cupid soul, evoking the influences of Joni Mitchell, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, the Staple Singers, k.d.lang, sweet 1970's soul and Americana.
Julie Christensen's second CD is under the new moniker stone cupid and is a swell followup to her 1997 "love is driving". It's called "Soul Driver".
...More music from the Great Plains via Texas and California: Julie Christensen's travels with her longtime musician friends have brought us glimpses into her
achy soulville through a lens of strong focus on real live instruments and Julie's blue country jazzy soulful vocals, organically grown in Ojai.
Stone Cupid became the name for these longtime musician companions who get together with Leonard Cohen / Divine Horsemen veteran Christensen. She has produced this followup to 1997's love is driving, a soul-country ride of a CD that was played on 50 public radio stations nationwide and covered in BILLBOARD and CMJ. (Love is Driving is newly re-mastered and re-packaged and available here at CD Baby, too...)
Starting with live basic tracks over the course of 3 nights of public performances at Happy Valley School's Zalk Theater in Ojai, recorded in 24 track analog an mastered in the audiophile HDCD, the songs in Soul Driver were filled out with Julie's intimate and powerful vocals, as well as the live backup of Perla Batalla and Beth Fichet-Wood, horns (Lee Thornburg again, of Tower of Power), great guitar (Jonathan McEuen, who also provided duet and backup vocals, and Greg Leisz again, of k.d. lang, Joni Mitchell and Bill Frisell ), and the beautiful keyboard work of songwriting and singing partner and jazz stalwart Karen Hammack.
The rhythm section is Headless Household's Chris Symer and Supertramp's Cliff Hugo on bass and James Cruce, of J.J. Cale's band, and Jim Christie of Dwight Yoakum's band on drums and percussion. Soul Driver is a fully realized album of new and older songs (including songs from the never-released Todd Rundgren production for Polygram) of Christensen's with collaborators, and cover material by her friends Jeff Turmes, Peter Kingsbery, and Heather Hoban.
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