FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Vera Sheps Two Sheps That Pass… 401 Broadway, Suite 804 New York, NY, 10013 [email protected]646.613.1101 AMERICANA SINGER-SONGWRITER FINDS HER ESSENTIAL ARTISTIC VOICE IN VISCERAL NEW ALBUM Janie Barnett returns to her roots in a full-circle expression of her musical past, present and future. “This is the river I’m working for. Out in the open exposed here. For everyone to point at me from the shore. Swimming best as I can. I get so tired I crave my legs so I can stand. Like the old days on dry land.” [I’m slugging it out, doing my best here to survive and find a new way to my destination, and how about everyone just standing on the side lines]- Excerpt from “You See This River” New York, NY (September 6, 2017) – In Janie Barnett’s newest album, You See This River, she evokes her hybrid style that favors roots-music instruments, the whimsical storytelling of her favorite author John Steinbeck, and the social passions of one who grew up in the backyard of Washington D.C., melding various chapters of her life into the Americana album she always intended to make. Featuring Blue Room, a collaborative group of musicians at the top of the Brooklyn music scene, who flesh out the body of the songs with a luscious, cinematic sound, the album is a musically complex and emotionally wrought platform for Barnett’s genuine artistic voice to break out through. You See This River is the deeply personal 13-song result of Barnett’s life-long search for her artistic authenticity. Inspired by some of the most intensely emotional moments of her life - struggling to just stay afloat while balancing raising her daughter and her growing music career, becoming fueled by the nation’s ever-politicized environment to establish her voice as a feminist and activist, and finding the people who will stand by you for life, romantically or otherwise – the album revolves around a lyrical theme of the human impulse for longing. In her own words:
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AMERICANA SINGER-SONGWRITER FINDS HER ESSENTIAL ARTISTIC VOICE IN VISCERAL NEW ALBUM
Janie Barnett returns to her roots in a full-circle expression of her musical past, present and future.
“This is the river I’m working for. Out in the open exposed here. For everyone to point at me from the shore. Swimming best as I can. I get so tired I crave my legs so I can stand. Like the old days on dry land.” [I’m slugging it out, doing my best here to survive and find a new way to my destination, and how about everyone just standing on
the side lines]- Excerpt from “You See This River”
New York, NY (September 6, 2017) – In Janie Barnett’s newest album,
You See This River, she evokes her hybrid style that favors roots-music
instruments, the whimsical storytelling of her favorite author John
Steinbeck, and the social passions of one who grew up in the backyard
of Washington D.C., melding various chapters of her life into the
Americana album she always intended to make. Featuring Blue Room, a
collaborative group of musicians at the top of the Brooklyn music scene,
who flesh out the body of the songs with a luscious, cinematic sound, the album is a musically
complex and emotionally wrought platform for Barnett’s genuine artistic voice to break out
through.
You See This River is the deeply personal 13-song result of Barnett’s life-long search for her
artistic authenticity. Inspired by some of the most intensely emotional moments of her life -
struggling to just stay afloat while balancing raising her daughter and her growing music career,
becoming fueled by the nation’s ever-politicized environment to establish her voice as a feminist
and activist, and finding the people who will stand by you for life, romantically or otherwise –
the album revolves around a lyrical theme of the human impulse for longing. In her own words: