Live clip with live audio, filmed by Christopher Moore & Molly FitzSimons of Libby's song Perfect View, on upcoming album.
Libby Johnson on E Entertainment music special
Trust The Man EPK
video by Shruti Ganguly for Libby Johnson song "Lift Me Up"
Influences
+++love, longing, shadows, small towns, tall trees, sideshows, boxcars, mystics & mysteries, spells & conjures, beauty, truth, hope, spoken word, words unspoken & whatever is in between +++Beatles, Carter Family, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Elliot Smith, PJ Harvey, Helium, the Pixies, Suzanne Vega, Elis Regina, Milton Nacimiento, Bob Mould, McCoy Tyner, Mavis Staples, Wayne Shorter, Anais Nin, Henry Miller
Sounds Like
No Depression, Nov/Dec 2006
LIBBY JOHNSON, Annabella (Wrong Records). This is a wondrous debut, perfect in its modest way. The hooks are unassailable, the singing and playing are felt, the arrangements an autumnal cross between Lucinda-bred Americana and kudzu-style indie rock. Traces of everyone from Liz Phair to Chrissie Hynde, Susan Cowsill to Sheryl Crow, can be heard. But ultimately, Johnson ..- who previously made three records with her sister Carrie in a group called 22 Brides ..-brooks no comparisons. Annabella is..... ..- complete and self-possessed. Inspirational lines abound, all of them delivered in Johnson..s gauzy yet grounded soprano, but the following (a strutting nod to Bob?) portends greatness: ..Paleface Cinderella is preparing for the war/With her suitcase and her hand grenades, she..s pounding down your door/This same sleeping beauty, who said she..d been redeemed/She..s kissin.. and tellin.. everyone exactly what she..s seen...BILL FRISKICS-WARREN/NO DEPRESSION/DEC/2006
"Johnson’s vocals are versatile—alternately tough and tender, changing as the song demands, and offering something to please every listener".
-Mare Wakefield, Performing Songwriter, March/April 2007
“Spellbinding” -Philadelphia Inquirer
“...beautiful, bittersweet....moves seamlessly from searching and yearning to bruised and ominous....” Gene Santoro, New York Daily News
“Johnson’s vocals are versatile- alternately tough and tender, changing as the song demands, and offering something to please every listener” Mare Wakefield, Performing Songwriter
“...an unexpected treasure....one of the best debuts of the year...” Steve Greenlee, Boston Globe
New York based singer/songwriter Libby Johnson grew up in a musical family, where from a young age she experimented with writing, playing, and singing music. By her teens she was writing songs and traveling as a performer. “We moved quite a few times during my childhood, including a five year stint in Nairobi, Kenya, and that nurtured my love of traveling” she says. After studying jazz piano and voice, Libby landed in New York, working as a session vocalist, playing piano bars, and eventually forming the band 22 Brides with her sister, singer/guitarist, Carrie Johnson in 1993. Critically-acclaimed for their blend of sixties-pop, swirling folk harmonies, and haunting lyrics, 22 Brides released three well-received albums on the Zero Hour and Universal labels and spent the 90s on the road touring.
Libby's solo debut, “Annabella,” released on indie label Wrong Records in 2006, saw her development as an artist and songwriter on her own, with four of the songs featured by director Bart Freundlich in his film “Trust The Man.” Drawing from a paintbox of the folk and blues and gigantic helpings of the Beatles she listened to growing up, Johnson’s songs are noted for their evocotive lyrics and her distinctive voice. "Annabella" went to round two of Grammy nominations in the category of “best Americana” album 2006.
Her new album "Perfect View" is releasing Spring, 2009 on Wrong Records.
Label/Mgmt: Wrong Records, PO Box 1567, New York, NY 10154
Booking: Newbridge Artists, email: newbridgeartists@gmail.com
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Hi there, wanted to drop by and say hello to you and to say that I hope you are having a great week. Keep in touch and look forward to hearing from you. Sara XXX
Good Day Libby! Hope you got a great start to the new week! I've been playing around with my camera lately and wanted to share a couple photos with you..
Hi My new tunes "November 29th" and "Light on mute" (my first instrumental track) are now available for you to listen to as many times as you wish it better be a bunch :D hey! i always stop by to tell you something about me soo please share something of yours with me as well ok?... thanks a million! -picke
hey libby. glad to see you're going to be up in my neck of the woods on 8/29. the new stuff sounds great. hope to catch the show and hear it live. hope all is well.
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