Ep41: Juliana Hatfield on drawing without looking
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Attention Engineer is back after a short break and, in keeping with my continuing quest towards a life of digital minimalism and mindful productivity, will now be beaming into your ears fortnightly. Visit this page if you’d like to find out about the other things I’m going to be making and sharing alongside this show…
Juliana Hatfield is an artist whose work has been part of my record collection for as long as I can remember, encouraging and inspiring me to share my innermost thoughts and record my own music. In 2018, I was beyond delighted to be invited to support The Juliana Hatfield Three in London and Bristol, and it was a huge treat to get to speak to Juliana for this episode.
Juliana Hatfield is a musician and songwriter who has been releasing excellent albums since 1987, first with Blake Babies, then The Lemonheads, then solo. I first heard Juliana’s work via The Juliana Hatfield Three, whose 1993 album “Become What You Are” spawned two hit singles, “My Sister” and “Spin The Bottle”, which was used in the film Reality Bites.
Alongside seventeen solo albums, Juliana’s extensive back catalogue also includes work under the name Juliana’s Pony, and collaborations with Matthew Caws of Nada Surf (under the name Minor Alps) and Paul Westerberg of The Replacements (under the name The I Don’t Cares). She’s also worked with Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Tanya Donelly, Exene Cervenka and John Doe. She even had a part in a Christmas episode of My So-Called Life…
In this conversation, we discuss:
- writing about the truth, rejecting society’s expectations and demonstrating alternative ways of living
- finding creative freedom in limitations
- sensitivity as a superpower
- home recording – Juliana’s tough transition from analogue to digital recording, and how her new album “Blood” is her most misanthropic yet
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Have a lovely day xo
Hope American Laundromat has tuned into this episode – I have a feeling Joe would love this. A lovely, honest conversation. I was lucky enough to see Juliana play in a swelteringly hot marquee in Bellows Falls, VT in the summer of 2003, my first and only time. It still sticks in my mind vividly.
Sounds fantastic!
Hello,
Fantastic interview! What was the song played in the outro of the episode?
Thanks!
Hi David – thanks so much for listening! That’s “Hell Together” off my latest album “Exotic Monsters”
Love it! Thank you, Laura.
Thanks for listening, David!