Josephine Foster is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 modern folk and psychedelic rock singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. Several years later she abandoned the idea and began to record demos of her songs, resulting in the early recordings There Are Eyes Above (2000), an album of ukulele accompanied songs strongly influenced by Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century...

, and a short album of children's songs, Little Life (2001).

For several years she worked as a singing teacher in Chicago, recording and performing with a variety of musical acts on the side including Born Heller, a duo with free jazz-bassist Jason Ajemian, and The Children's Hour a pop band formed with songwriter Andrew Bar. In 2004, joined by her occasional backing band The Supposed (Brian Goodman on guitar and Rusty Peterson on drums), she released an album of psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 called All the Leaves Are Gone

All the Leaves Are Gone

All the Leaves Are Gone is an album by Josephine Foster and The Supposed, released in 2004.-Track listing:#"Well-Heeled Men" – 5:40#"The Most Loved One" – 3:52#"All the Leaves Are Gone" – 3:37#"Nana" – 4:31#"Deathknell" – 3:43#"Silly Song" – 4:37...

on Locust Music

Locust Music

Locust Music is a Chicago-based independent record label founded in 2001....

 which has drawn comparison to Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....

 and Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....

.http://www.mp3.com/albums/644122/reviews.html

The songs on her first solo studio album Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You

Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You

Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You is an album by Josephine Foster, released in 2005.-Track listing:#"The Siren's Admonition" – 4:24#"Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You" – 3:26#"By the Shape of Your Pearls" – 1:22#"Stones Throw from Heaven" – 3:18...

(2005, Locust Music

Locust Music

Locust Music is a Chicago-based independent record label founded in 2001....

) evoke American folk and blues forms of the early 20th century. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, released in 2006 (Locust Music

Locust Music

Locust Music is a Chicago-based independent record label founded in 2001....

), features unorthodox interpretations of 19th century German

Germany

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 Lied

Lied

is a German word literally meaning "song", usually used to describe romantic songs setting German poems of reasonably high literary aspirations, especially during the nineteenth century, beginning with Carl Loewe, Heinrich Marschner, and Franz Schubert and culminating with Hugo Wolf...

er. Her third solo album, This Coming Gladness, was released in 2008. In early 2009 she signed to London-based Label Fire Records (uk)

Fire Records (UK)

Fire Records is an independent record label in London, England. The label was founded by Clive Solomon in 1986 and is currently run by James Nicholls.-Current roster:*Giant Sand*Guided By Voices*Howe Gelb*Josephine Foster*Wooden Wand*Bobby Conn...

Solo

• 2000: There Are Eyes Above
• 2001: Little Life
• 2005: Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
  Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
  Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You is an album by Josephine Foster, released in 2005.-Track listing:#"The Siren's Admonition" – 4:24#"Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You" – 3:26#"By the Shape of Your Pearls" – 1:22#"Stones Throw from Heaven" – 3:18...
  
  
• 2006: What is that ever was?
• 2006: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
• 2008: This Coming Gladness
• 2009: Graphic as a Star
• 2010: Anda Jaleo (with Victor Herrero Band)

External links

• Official Website
• review of Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You in Stylus Magazine
  Stylus Magazine
  Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002. It featured long-form music journalism, four daily music reviews, movie reviews, a number of different podcasts, an MP3 blog, and a text blog....
  
  
• Dusted magazine review
• article in The Stranger
  The Stranger (newspaper)
  The Stranger is an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, USA. It runs a blog known as Slog.-History:The Stranger was founded by Tim Keck, who had previously co-founded the satirical newspaper The Onion, and cartoonist James Sturm. Its first issue came out on September 23, 1991...
  
  
• Folk allumé aux Instants chavirés, an article in Libération
  Libération
  Libération is a French daily newspaper founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Originally a leftist newspaper, it has undergone a number of shifts during the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  (in French)