Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield (b. Wiscasset, Maine, July 27, 1967), is a guitarist/songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock band Blake Babies.

Solo career

Hatfield began her solo career following the Blake Babies' breakup in 1991, releasing her first solo album (Hey Babe) in 1992 and achieving minor stardom with the release of 1993's Become What You Are (recorded under the group name The Juliana Hatfield Three). Several songs from the album received regular airplay on major North American rock stations, and one of her songs ("Spin the Bottle") was used in the soundtrack of the Hollywood film Reality Bites (1994). In retrospect, it can be seen that Hatfield's popularity was part of a greater trend, in the mid-1990s, of increased interest in female rock artists (with Liz Phair, P J Harvey, Belly, Letters to Cleo, Velocity Girl, The Breeders, Hole, Veruca Salt, Poe, Magnapop, Bettie Serveert, and others also rising to prominence during this period). Hatfield, however, has always maintained that her gender is of only incidental importance to her music. Nonetheless proud to be part of this movement, she was invited in 1997 to tour with the first Lilith Fair, a prominent all-female rock festival founded by singer Sarah McLachlan. Also at this time Hatfield was profiled in a number of girls' magazines, becoming embraced by many pre-teen and teenage girls as something of a role model due to the positive way she addressed serious issues faced by young women in her songs and interviews.

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1991 - Hey Babe - 1992 - Become What You Are - Reality Bites - Liz Phair - P J Harvey - Belly - Letters to Cleo - Velocity Girl - The Breeders - Hole - Veruca Salt - Poe - Magnapop - Bettie Serveert - 1997 - Lilith Fair - Sarah McLachlan

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In 1996 she traveled to Woodstock, New York where she recorded tracks for God's Foot, which was to be her fourth solo album (third if not counting Become What You Are, which was recorded with the Juliana Hatfield Three), intended for 1997 release. Containing some of Hatfield's finest work to date, the album was unfortunately put on indefinite hold by her record company due to a disagreement with Hatfield. Only substandard bootleg versions of these songs (which do not meet Hatfield's approval) have surfaced and she has rarely featured any of them in her subsequent live performances.

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1996 - Woodstock - New York - Become What You Are - 1997

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In 2005, Hatfield released the album Made in China on her own label, Ye Olde Records. In contrast to 2004's In Exile Deo, the disc is louder, rawer and more provocative http://www.julianahatfield.com/MICdiatribe.html. John Doe of X described the disc as "A frighteningly dark & beautiful record filled w/ stark, angular, truly brutal songs & guitars. This is surely a 'Woman Under the Influence', though I'm not sure of what" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/11FHZG4EF29U2/002-2224137-2352811.

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Made in China - John Doe

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