Growing up surrounded by gospel and soul from her musical mother and the elaborate bedtime stories of her father, Lucy Hall has a mind full of fairy tales, and a…
Jimmy Webb, songwriter of such hits as Galveston and Wichita Linesman is coming to Canberra. He took a moment to speak with Alex Sloan before his trip. His is arguably…
“The songs I wrote were about blue collar people.” Jimmy Webb has written some of the best known songs of the 20th century, he explains to Jennifer Byrne why he…
Renowned songwriter Jimmy Webb overcame his ‘diseases of the spirit’ to continue doing what he does best. JIMMY Webb was on his knees, imploring God to help him in troubled…
THERE is a trick in the arts that long pre-dates pop music: tell your audience that you’re going to deliver them something strikingly different to what came before. Joan Wasser…
SOUL | The Deep Field Joan as Police Woman | Liberator | 4 stars THE death in 1997 of her boyfriend, the great Jeff Buckley, left an indelible mark on the depthlessly…
Interview with Kathy Kathy McCabe | Daily Telegraph JOAN As Police Woman is the musical identity of Joan Wasser, an American artist who has been a fixture in alternative rock circles…
FOR Joan as Policewoman, it took a dose of pop and hip-hop to get her out of a creative slump. When writing for her third album, Joan Wasser wasn’t comfortable…
Keeping It Real. Virtuosic violinist and sublime indie-rock songstress Joan Wasser – better known as Joan As Police Woman – is a woman who, over the course of a half-hour…