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Julie Jurgens

About Me

Julie Jurgens: or, how I won the warOnce upon a time a girl met a guitar and they fell in love. While that first guitar has long since been broken beyond repair, its spirit lives on in a cherry red Washburn that has accompanied Julie on many a stage, including the Gallery Cabaret, Kitty Moon, the Mutiny, the Mill in Iowa City, and Theo's Java Club in Rock Island, IL, among many, many others. Julie has also won second place at a couple of county fairs, and plans on releasing a second official album eventually. Until then, feel free to ask her for legit bootlegs. She'll also get those to you eventually. This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/03/2005
Band Website: www.juliejurgens.com
Band Members: Julie: vox, guitar, pocket trumpet.

Sometimes:
Nancy, Tressa, Val, Ann, Sue, Jim.

Even less often:
Mike, Moe

Maybe someday:

Influences: beatles, tori amos, neil young, bob dylan, leonard cohen, irving berlin, rufus wainwright, melissa ferrick, townes van zandt, paul schomer, greg brown, patty griffin, pablo neruda, e e cummings, jeanette winterson, nina simone, sinatra, dinah washington.

Sounds Like: per Brandon (aka hot heels records):
"a World War II battle cruiser powered with the adrenaline of thirsty orphans. The adrenaline has to, of course, be harvested after the orphans have been shoved into a cage with ninety-eight nervous rattlesnakes.
Previous to this, the orphans must be informed that if they are very quiet, the basket of puppies outside will not be baked for the evening's puppy and kitten stew; it would only of course be simply kitten stew in that case."
Record Label: julie jurgens don't need no label. or grammar.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New CD : Mostly These Days

I have a new 5 song CD available at cdbaby. I also spent some time recently in Seattle recording some new tracks with Silverhands. That material should be available later this year.
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:07:00 GMT

juliejurgens.com, shows, stuff

So my new website can be found at juliejurgens.com. There are some videos up there, as well as a nifty gig calendar and a blog. I also have a bunch of shows coming up, so  please stop by if you c...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:04:00 GMT

New Songs!

Mostly These Days, Pinned, and The Waltz of the Ugly Intellectual are brand new, and feature the work of Aimee Zoe Tubbs on drums (except for Pinned, which has Mike McDermott on drums), Joy Mills on b...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:11:00 GMT

hotjuliej.com new and improved

my website is newly revamped. take a look if you care to.ben did it. wasn't that nice of him? such a sweet boy. anybody want to be in a band with me? anybody?
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:48:00 GMT

centerstage chicago

If you could, please go here http://centerstage.net/patronreviews/pr.cfm?ID=4215&which=wh oswho and fill out a review about me & my shows. I'd be ever so grateful. Thanks!
Posted by on Mon, 08 May 2006 18:27:00 GMT

bacon bacon bacon, I made you out of pigs

There's a bed & breakfast in Illinois that is in a house George Harrison's sister used to own. It's called "A Hard Day's Night Bed & Breakfast." I'm totally going to stay there.
Posted by on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:08:00 GMT

hell's bells and other things that ring

Spent a fabulous, if smoky and crowded, night last night watching Bakelite 78 play at the California Clipper. I think I'll surely go back there, prolly on a weeknight, so some of the smoke and people ...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:13:00 GMT

top "8"

I still love my previous top 8; I just also wanted to show love to some more of my awesome friends. I will actually try to rotate my 8 frequently to get some folks some exposure.
Posted by on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:06:00 GMT

to everyone who has friended me, commented, or anything else

Thanks. I don't always take the time to acknowledge a lot of these, mostly because my computer is slower than molasses in January, but I do appreciate it.
Posted by on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:22:00 GMT

lyricsproject.blogspot.com

songwriters! if you would like to join the lyricsproject.blogspot.com, please comment here and leave me your email address. This blog is designed to be a forum for indpendent songwriters to post their...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:17:00 GMT