Joanna
All my songwriting comes from a place of total honesty and a sense of sarcasm. I sing about love and all the emotional complexities of being in love, losing yourself, toughening yourself up and all in all the struggles of being alive.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
In Chicago: Funeral of Trees, Circle Horse and Fuzz.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
On my twenty-first birthday I played a benefit concert in Hammond, Indiana on the Purdue University campus. There were about ten people in audience and I don't think anyone clapped or paid attention to us in the slightest. That seemed to mark the beginning of the end. I do love to play live and Chicago was a great place to do all that. Then I discovered the studio and that was way more fun.
Your musical influences
80's influenced crap with a bit of an edge and slightly more introspective lyrics.
Anything else?
I just like singing and the fitting together of music and lyrics. I admire the songs of other people/bands who just keep it simple and honest whether that honesty is aggressive or quiet or full of expletives...I like when people use music as an expression - not a product.
