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Label/Mgmt: Wrong Records, PO Box 1567, New York, NY 10154
email info@wrongrecords.net
Booking: Newbridge Artists, email: newbridgeartists@gmail.com
Media contact: jeffrey@crash-avenue.com
Select press, March 2010:
“…the girl sings like the love child of Elliot Smith and Billie Holiday and gets down with her instruments.listen to ‘Perfect View’ once and tell me you don’t want to listen to it 10 times…I did.”
-Kirsten Schofield, LEO Weekly
“This is one beautiful cdquietly engrossing…crafting songs delicate and unfolding, works grounded in the everyday but gently transcendant…”
-Mark Tucker
Fame Review
“Johnson is back with ‘Perfect View,’ and it’s storytelling goodness…”
-George Perez, Vox
“…highlights include note-perfect tunefulness, colorful melodies, solid songwriting…”
The Fire Note, Aidan Rox
Selected press:
No Depression, Nov/Dec 2006LIBBY 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 Johnsons 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, shes pounding down your door/This same sleeping beauty, who said shed been redeemed/Shes kissin and tellin everyone exactly what shes 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, bittersweetmoves 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 treasureone of the best debuts of the year.” Steve Greenlee, Boston Globe
Libby's new album "Perfect View," with guest appearances by Garland Jeffreys, Carrie Johnson, and Lucy Wainwright Roche, will be available now on ITunes, and in stores January 2010
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Perfect View, the new album, is now available on iTunes.
Libby's debut solo album "Annabella," on iTunes
