Jude Johnstone-Quiet Girl Review

Jude Johnstone is one of those great vocalists that will become an immediate revelation when you first hear her. For this listener she is an artist I always look forward to hearing after enjoying her first four releases. I can feel myself welling up with emotion as the first track starts. Her music will do that to you. Quiet Girl is her fifth album. After journeying down the road of jazz and blues the new release takes a decidedly different turn to Americana and the results are fantastic.

Jude's voice is so pliable and eclectic she could quite frankly sing anything. Her style is warm and expressive and with that every track tells a story you find yourself engrossed in. The most endearing point of all ten tracks on Quiet Girl is their sincerity and the music that so easily interprets the lyrics into something believable. Where this is most evident is on the heart rending "Cry For New Orleans", a tribute to people of that great city and all the suffering that is still evident years after Katrina hit.

Jude has a fine group of musicians backing her once again and they also play live with her as well so there is an established comfort zone. Most impressively Ms. Johnstone had a large part in the production of this fine release with Charles Duncan. Everything about this recording is craftsmanship on display in the most affirmative way. Every aspect is polished and perfected to bring out the very best the vocalist has to offer. My guess would be the singer managed the vocal duties efficiently on this release. I say that because she is such a true talent that always sounds so effortless.

Jude not only sings for New Orleans she sings for us all one way or another. There is some aspect of our lives in these 10 tracks. "Angel At Your Door" is an absolute classic, it sounds like something Springsteen, Dylan or Johnny Cash would sing. It's not any of those legendary performers, it's a lady by the name of Jude Johnstone and if you have not discovered her yet its time you did.

Jude Johnstone may be a Quiet Girl but her music and voice is larger than life.

5 / 5 Stars

Key Tracks- Angel At Your Door, Cry For New Orleans, Quiet Girl

Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck-MuzikReviews.com Founder

January 22 , 2011

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Tracks:
01 .Quiet Girl
02 .I Don't Wanna Go Home
03 .Josephina
04 .Don't Wake Me Up
05 .I Pray For Rain
06 .On That Train
07 .Cry For New Orleans
08 .It's Gonna Take A While
09 .Angel At Your Door
10 .The Smell of Summer