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What Hearts

About Me

What Hearts is songwriting by Julie Vitells, harmonious vocals by Julie Vitells and Karin Nystrom, drumming and violining provided by Sophie Vitells. What Hearts songs are simple, but they will get stuck in your head for weeks. This can be a good or a bad thing.
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Member Since: 10/04/2008
Band Members: Julie Vitells, Karin Nystrom, Sophie Vitells
Influences: The Carter Family, Townes Van Zandt, Emmylou Harris, Huck Notari, Nanci Griffith, Kimya Dawson, Will Oldham, Hazel Dickens, Gillian Welch, Neutral Milk Hotel, Caleb Kaluder, The Balfa Brothers, Madeline Adams, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young
Sounds Like: delicate lyrical funny sad songs
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

MicControl Blog wrote a nice review about us...

The Goldenest Promise, the debut album by Julie Vitells, is a throwback to the more classic bluegrass/ folk sound. A big movement in music right now is the indie-folk movement, which has strayed awa...
Posted by on Fri, 22 May 2009 18:15:00 GMT

We changed our name and

and we are introducing drums, played by Sophie, and eventually bass, played by Karin. Pretty exciting...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:14:00 GMT

Band bio

Julie Vitells hails from Albuquerque, NM and has lived in Portland since 1995.  She wrote her first song in 2007 and hasn't stopped writing since.  Over the last year, she has enlisted her sister, Sop...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:14:00 GMT

Phineas Gage

I have a song about this fella. Phineas Gage was employed by the railroad in the 1890's to set dynamite charges on the tracks. He had the awful luck to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:17:00 GMT

new songs

The songs recently posted on this page are from our upcoming album, which is currently being churned through the gears of cd production. Stay tuned for our cd release in November or December, featurin...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:15:00 GMT