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Julie has had the blues and jazz in her ears and soul and voice
for a long time. Long before her two backup singing stints with Leonard Cohen
in 1988 and 1993. Before and during the years of alternative post-punk band
Divine Horsemen, which she fronted with Chris D from 1983 to 1987,
putting out four albums on SST. Before, during, and since the recordings
and live sessions with Cohen, Van Dyke Parks, Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Steve
Wynn, Osamu Kitajima, k.d. lang, Robben Ford and others. Blues and jazz
and other roots music are conjured up on Julie's gigs alongside her evocative
original songs and blended into them.
In her five years in the Austin, Texas scene, members of many
of the town's luminary bands and touring musicians showed up for her weekly
jazz/blues gigs and mounted the stage to blow tunes. Then, Julie moved to LA
in the early 1980's. There, she was one of the early purveyors of jazz and blues
to the post-punk boho crowd, playing venues like Cathay de Grande, Lhasa
Club, Cafe Largo, and the Music Machine on bills with spoken word
and acoustic spinoffs of bands like X, the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
the Blasters, & Oingo Boingo. She would be seen in glamorous gowns
with virtuoso musicians like Henry Butler.
Julie has opened theater concerts for acts as diverse as Nick
Cave, Todd Rundgren, Michael McDonald, Luka Bloom, Jeff Buckley, & Doug
Sahm. She's playing in L.A. regularly again, finding time to swing with
longtime cohorts the Stepsisters who blow minds and dancing shoes at
haunts like the Viper Room, or the Derby, or PBS' Swing Alive
at the Palladium.
Julie performed off-Broadway in early 1997 in New York's
East Village at Joseph Papp's Public Theater as Slue Foot Sue,
Pecos Bill's doomed wife in Sam Shepard's Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the
Eve of Killing His Wife to solid reviews and full houses. Last summer, Julie
did a run as "Rosie" in Sam Shepard's Simpatico at the Florida
Shakespeare Theater (located in the lovely restored Biltmore Hotel in Miami's
scenic Coral Gables, where Al Capone wintered and Bill Clinton recently stopped
to get a massage). Her husband John Diehl played "Vinnie". She is back home
now in the mountains of Southern California.
www.stonecupid.com
juliec@stonecupid.com
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