JoAnna James - Back Of My Mind (EP)
ARTIST.....: JoAnna James
TITLE......: Back Of My Mind (EP)
LABEL......: Eclectone Records
URL........: www.joannajames.com
RIP DATE...: Aug-18-2007
STORE DATE.: Apr-26-2007
GENRE......: Folk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 27,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - No Ordinary Sunday 04:22
02 - Disappear 03:48
03 - Back Of My Mind 03:03
04 - Drawn 03:57
05 - Don't Let Me Leave 03:59
06 - I Sing For You 03:34
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22:43 min
Release Notes:
www.myspace.com/joannajames
www.eclectone.com
www.myspace.com/eclectonerecords
Made up of equal parts soul, folk and blues, JoAnna James is a
gifted singer/songwriter signed to Eclectone Records from St.
Paul, Minnesota whose live performances leave her audiences
longing for more. The way she wails would make Motown proud. Her
delicate phrasings would have made Nina Simone grin. Her heartfelt
performances would elicit a knowing wink from Bonnie Raitt.
Whether singing in a sultry whisper or a gale-force wail, JoAnna
James was born with "a voice guaranteed to make the hairs on the
back of your neck stand up" (Pulse of the Twin Cities).
JoAnna got her start in music when she was seven years old on a
violin her grandfather purchased from a nun for $100. It wasn't
too long before the guitar lured her in and she began to teach
herself chords by listening to everything from Patsy Cline, Prince
and Nirvana, to Otis Redding, Jeff Buckley and Bob Dylan. Singing
was next, and it wasn't long before she found herself on stage at
local coffee shops. Fast-forward ten years, which found JoAnna
playing nearly 250 dates over the course of 2005 and 2006, in
addition to receiving two consecutive Minnesota Music Awards for
"Female Vocalist of the Year."
In the past two years, JoAnna has also enjoyed the privilege of
sharing the stage with national and international touring
musicians such as UK jazz sensation Jamie Cullum, Australian
singer/songwriter Missy Higgins, Ken Stringfellow (of REM, The
Posies and Big Star), Joseph Arthur, A Girl Called Eddy, The
Honeydogs, Mason Jennings, Steve Poltz, The New Standards, Slim
Dunlap (the Replacements), Cloud Cult, and Dan Wilson among
others.
JoAnna currently has three full-length recordings. She released a
self-titled CD in the spring of 2004 and her sophomore album,
Desire, in the summer of 2005. This past autumn she travelled to
Lexington, Kentucky and teamed up with producer, Duane Lundy, to
record a new EP that has just been released, this spring of 2007.