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FROM ASCAP PLAYBACK MAGAZINE:Jaime Babbitt's Excellent Results"As a kid I would always sing whenever I was happy, so I just figured that if I was always singing, I'd always be happy," says New York-based singer/songwriter Jaime Babbitt. So far, Babbitt must be a very happy person. From fronting rock bands to the lucrative jingle singing world where she became the voice for Hanes, Panasonic, Miller Beer, Pillsbury and Sears, Babbitt's voice paid the bills. That was all well and good, but by the late '90s, she was anxious to expand her creative horizons. Having learned to play the guitar years before when she was a teenager, she picked it up again and began writing songs. She found she couldn't stop. Then after polishing her own material in New York clubs and journeying to Nashville to play her songs for her songwriting friends, she set about recording her first full-length album. The result is an excellent album called Excellent Driver, produced by Bronx-based studio guru Lincoln Schleifer and featuring an ace band comprised of New York musicians: guitarist John Putnam, drummer Denny McDermott and bassist Schleifer. Guest musicians also include Larry Campbell, Jeff Kazee, Danny Louis and others.A highly impressive debut, Excellent Driver is a collection of songs in the modern roots/pop vein (a la Patty Griffin and Shawn Colvin) where lyric and melody are central but groove is king.P.S. - I moved to Nashville about 2 years ago, sang background vocals on George Strait's single, 'You'll Be There", songs for Jimmy Webb's Broadway musical, wrote and sang lots of country songs, demos and jingles, performed in a murder/mystery musical, sang for a Disney 'Cars' CD, began producing projects for various artists around town, sang background vocals/played percussion for one of my idols Leon Russell, and am presently in LA working as the musical director/coach for a brand new all-girl rock band coming out on Disney Records--not bad for a Brooklyn girl!
