Juliana Hatfield

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 “I feel really lucky to have made a living at this for so long,” says Hatfield. “And I generally believe that where I am is where I’m supposed to be. The bottom line is I love what I do; making my music brings me joy and fulfillment, over and over again. And I’ll continue to do it until I don’t love it anymore.”
-Juliana Hatfield

Never afraid to wrestle her personal demons into songs, Juliana Hatfield has carved out an impressive musical career with her brand of self analysis. From her work with indie darlings the Blake Babies and her critically acclaimed solo albums (beginning with 1992's Hey Babe), to last year's Some Girls side project, Hatfield has won fans with songs that blend bright, infectious melodies with lyrics drawn from life's chaos and confusion. While her latest album continues to mine that dark yet appealing vein, In Exile Deo also represents a breaking of new ground for the popular and influential singer-songwriter.

“She was a willowy beauty with charming shyness and a slightly tragic air”. So says Brett Milano, of Juliana Hatfield in her starting-out days, in his recent ¬book The Sound Of Our Town: A History Of Boston Rock+Roll.   Juliana Hatfield, no less an intriguing, compelling character today, has been working as a recording artist for twenty years.   From the beginning she has distinguished herself as a pop/rock artist with brains, determination, and an unwavering dedication to her craft in the face of a rapidly-evolving music industry.   Hatfield made waves in the mid-nineties on Atlantic Records with her modern rock hits “My Sister”, “Spin The Bottle”, and “Universal Heartbeat”, which reinforced her status as a respected, uncompromising songwriter, guitar player, and producer with impeccable pop instincts, a disdain for artifice, a completely original voice, and a contrarian streak.   How To Walk Away is Hatfield’s tenth album as a solo artist (not including  side projects like Some Girls, as well as four Blake Babies albums). Amazingly, Hatfield’s work improves with each passing year.

Hatfield has always straddled the line between meticulously-composed pop and scrappy rock- she has been characterized as a cross between Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders) and Belinda Carlyle (of the Go Go’s).