Packsaddle Road

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1		Today	3:23	Play
2		Dancin'	3:27	Play
3		Packsaddle Road	4:51	Play
4		Sugar Grove	3:47	Play
5		Gabriel	1:52	Play
6		Under the Moon	3:10	Play
7		Time Spent with Me	2:13	Play
8		Monica	3:32	Play
9		If I Could	2:15	Play
10		Should Be Prayin'	6:22	Play
11		Southbound Train	4:18	Play
12		Better Off	4:24	Play

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Born in NYC, Juliane Gardner started her life in Brooklyn, but as fate would have it, her father decided to move them out of the big borough back to the coast of Maine, when she was four. She would become the fifth generation of Gardners to grow up in her father's hometown. Themes of nature would later inspire her songwriting style.

"My father's love of jazz would be my first major influence. We used to spend countless hours playing along to the records from the Be -Bop era. I'd play the piano and he'd beat the congas...I thought I was Thelonious Monk and he thought he was Art Blakey, needless to say we had a lot of fun pretending."
Spending her youth growing up in a small community, she had the opportunity to join Cold Comfort Productions, a local summer stock theatre company that focused on musicals. By the age of nine, Juliane was featured in vocal solos. After being involved with the group for eight years, in classics such as Oliver, Oklahoma, and the Sound of Music, she was hooked and has loved performing ever since.

"Both of my parents, believing that I had a natural ear for music, were (and still are) extremely encouraging; bringing me to lessons, supporting me in college, and always attending my gigs. I truly feel fortunate that they nourished my dream of singing.

"When I look back, I was really into the contemporary pop/rock singers in my teens like; Prince, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, The Smiths, and Peter Gabriel,. However, during my early twenties my jazz roots resurfaced while in a vocal jazz program in college. I became very interested in singing jazz, some of my favorite vocalists were Carmen MacRae, Johnny Hartman, Lambert Hendricks and Ross, and of course Ella Fitzgerald."

"I think the two worlds of jazz and folk merged for me when I started listening to Joni Mitchell."
"I'll never forget where I was when I heard her version of "Good bye Pork Pie Hat"(sung by Joni with lyrics she had written); it changed my whole outlook on what it meant to be a vocalist. All these new possibilities were open to me in terms of self-expression; here's a folk singer capturing her take on what it was like to be an Afro-American sax player (Lester Young) during the 1940's and 50's, as she puts it,
" ...A bright star in a Dark Age, when the band stand had a thousand ways
of refusing a black man admission, black musician..."
I heard this and was moved to tears. It would be years before I started playing the guitar and creating my own songs, but the seeds were planted that night."

Through out her college years Juliane joined and formed many groups,
She would experience fronting Top 40 bands to Jazz Trios before shifting her focus to her own songwriting. "Sometimes people ask me how I went from singing jazz standards to writing contemporary folk tunes. Well, a lot of it was situational. I was working in a bakery with a friend who would bring music in for us. Before I knew it, I was listening to Jeff Buckley, Patty Larkin, and Ani Difranco, it was that summer a friend lent me his guitar, I guess the rest is history."

I remember I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Ani's music. She was writing from her gut and singing like no one could stop her. I was instantly impressed with her ability to put words together and started keeping a song journal. Whenever an idea popped into my head I wrote it down, sometimes I'd use it. Probably the biggest turning point was on a bus trip across country when I had many hours to capture my observations in lyrics." "For me the motivation behind writing lyrics is truth telling."

Last fall 2002; three of Juliane's songs from her upcoming CD were used as part of the soundtrack in a four part MPBS series called "School Zones". "It was so interesting for me to see the images and hear my songs supporting them, I hope to be involved with more projects like this in the future."

These days you can hear cuts from Juliane's self-released debut CD, "Packsaddle Road" on WERU FM 89.9 (a community radio station in Orland, Maine). "Recording an original CD is a dream that I've had for a long time and I'm psyched the journey has come full circle. It is available for purchase locally at BullMoose Music and through my website .To hear a sample from it or see Juliane's schedule, go to www.julianegardner.com