Search - Jill Sobule :: California Years (Dig)

Over five albums and a decade of recording, Jill Sobule has mused on topics
such as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French
resistance movement, adolescence and the Christian right. Early hit songs
included I Kissed a Girl and Supermodel.

Jill inducted Neil Diamond into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. She's
performed with Neil Young, Billy Bragg and Warren Zevon and has been a
political troubadour for NPR stations across America. She's an American
original.
California Years, the first release on her own Pinko Records, was produced
by Don Was . The recording, promotion and publicity for the record was
funded entirely by donations from her loyal fans. $86K and counting!

"Jill Sobule can claim her place among the stellar New York
singer-songwriters of the last decade. Topical, funny and more than a little
poignant ...grown-up music for an adolescent age."
- Jon Pareles, New York Times

"Vocally gifted and lyrically witty ... a peerless satirist."
- People Magazine

"A feisty post-punk feminist whose work brings to mind a cross between Liz Phair and Gertrude Stein."
- The New Yorker

"Songwriting skills that transcend her one-novelty-hit wonder status."
- Village Voice

"A deft ironist. She is smart and original, a treasure undervalued by
inevitable association with countless lessers who also happen to be singing
about going to the laundromat in Brooklyn."
- The New Republic