I sing and play guitar and piano, especially around 4 AM. I also smile uncontrollably while playing Joni Mitchell covers on a really pretty dulcimer with hummingbirds and hearts carved on it.
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Influences
Joni Mitchell particularly Blue. "You said, 'Love is touching souls.' Surely you touched mine 'cause part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time." Patty Griffin. Aimee Mann. systematically attempting to listen to every song ever sung by Emmylou Harris. Dolly Parton. currently digging Cat Power, Jenny Lewis, Maria Taylor, and Lucinda Williams. Lori McKenna. Bob Dylan. Bonnie Raitt. Patsy Cline. Ray LaMontagne. Van Morrison, mostly Astral Weeks. Leonard Cohen. Jeff Buckley. Jackson Browne. Alison Krauss. Sheryl Crow. The Dixie Chicks. June Carter. Gillian Welch. Fiona Apple. The Judds. Kelly Willis. Nickel Creek. The Be Good Tanyas. The Band. Pachelbel's Canon in D. Mozart. The Frick Museum, NYC. Fragonard. Out of Africa. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. insomnia. obsessive thoughts. a sometimes heavy heart. But that's the past. I think my new influences will be deep sleep. uplifting thoughts. hope. Oh, how I hope. Expect for when I get a little hopeless.
Sounds Like
Get the single "Over"on
also available for download on indie911.com
cover of "California" by Joni Mitchell at The Hotel Cafe, 2/10/08
clip of "Hallelujah" cover at The Cutting Room, NYC 8/6/07
Enough (To Be Loved) music video directed by Erik Lang
NEWS!!!
Julie just wrapped filming on indie feature "The Putt-Putt Syndrome." She acted in the film and contributed an original song and a Leonard Cohen cover to the soundtrack. To be released 2010
10th ANNUAL GREAT AMERICAN SONG CONTEST, HONOR AWARD for "Thank You For Leaving Me Behind" 2009
15th ANNUAL BILLBOARD WORLD SONG CONTEST, HONORABLE MENTION for "Thank You For Leaving Me Behind" 2008
LOS ANGELES MUSIC AWARDS, BEST ACOUSTIC/FOLK SONG NOMINEE for "Thank You For Leaving Me Behind" 2007
Julie Mintz, part folk waif and forlorn fairy maiden, grew up in the small coastal Texas town of Corpus Christi, listening to classical music and my-man-done-me-wrong country love songs. “I’m not sure if Mozart and Patsy Cline were the only two albums my parents owned or just the only ones they liked, but those are the musical sounds I remember filling my childhood home,” Mintz recalls. It is no surprise then that Julie studied classical piano but always had a longing to play and sing her own stories.
Julie flirted with piano playing and songwriting as she pursued an acting career in Los Angeles. But with acting and insomnia taking its toll, she would stay up nights at the piano after the rush of long days spent auditioning. She was particularly drawn to the honesty and poeticism of artists such as Joni Mitchell and Patty Griffin. She says, “I’ll never forget the first time I heard ‘Blue’ by Joni Mitchell. I swear I felt my mind and my heart expand.” She also received a guitar as a birthday gift right around the time she made the painful descent from sweetheart to brokenhearted, and it didn’t take long before she was making up pretty tunes about love and loss.
Julie auditioned to play a musician opposite Rosanna Arquette on the ABC drama “What About Brian” and was asked to perform her song “Over” on the show. This also led to the recording of the acoustic single shortly after which is now available on iTunes. The show’s producers thought they had chosen a signed artist but were stunned to hear that she had yet to record an album. This has changed, however, as Julie just completed work on her first EP. The six song EP was independently produced and recorded in a cabin high on a mountain top in the Angeles National Forest. Look for "Crown and Anchor Me" available soon.
The majority of her songs still remain in a shoebox full of cassette tapes that she records on an old tape player. “I imagined the only way people might ever hear my songs was for me to sit in front of them with my guitar and sing. And, if it’s done right, it sort of feels like you’re sharing a little piece of your soul with another person,” Julie says. “But, then again, if my songs resonate with someone and they’d like to listen to them sometime other than when we are face to face, then I suppose they should be recorded.” And resonate they do. Academy Award nominated writer and director Josh Olson (“A History of Violence”) says, “You’ll know immediately that Julie’s voice is one of those rare and beautiful human instruments. But take a moment and listen to the lyrics. This is also one hell of a writer. There’s an amazing facility and sad humor at work here that will keep you coming back to these songs again and again.”
bio by Debbie V. Burenhausen
folk adj. of, originating among, or having to do with the common people, who transmit the culture of the group through succeeding generations.
waif n. anything found by chance that is without an owner. A person without a home or friends, esp. a homeless child. A piece of property found but claimed by nobody.
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Hey Julie! HOw is everything going? I am goign to be in your neck of the woods on the 27th. Tommy (my lil bro) and I are going to see Wicked. Perhaps we can meet up! The kids will be with mom and jamie in San Diego, but I would love to see you!
Thank you for taking the time to check out my songs and for your encouraging and kind words. You know I feel the same way about your voice and your incredible songs. Can't wait to see you back in LA! xoxo Kat
Hey, Raj just called me into the living room to tell me "I just saw Julie on A Mercedes commercial - with red hair!" Thank God for TiVo or I would have missed it. It was you, right? Sooo COOL!!
hey julie love the new music....you better remember me......well just wanted to tell if you gonna play any where bet now and oct please let me know...i would love to hear the new stuff live....cause im moving to n.c in october...so if u ever in n.c let me know.....lol well hope all is well i dont work at the shoe place no more i might go back to adidas....ima text you mt new e mail....member jorge
