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Johnette Napolitano was born and raised in Los Angeles, the eldest of five children [4] in an Italian American family. [5] [6]Her parents recognized their daughter possessed musical talent when, as a child, she was able to play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on piano by ear. [5]
Johnette Napolitano provided the vocals, bass guitar, samples, and the album artwork. Paul Thompson played drums and James Mankey played guitar. "Jenny I Read" details the rise to stardom and subsequent fall into happy obscurity of a fashion model (rumoured to be Bettie Page), while "Mexican Moon" finds Napolitano singing about a failed romance ...
The album was produced by Johnette Napolitano; it began as a solo project, with Napolitano initially recording in her home. [9] [10] "Mother of Pearl" is a cover of the Roxy Music song. [11] "Come Away with Me" incorporates unrecorded lyrics written by Janis Joplin.
Concrete Blonde lead vocalist Johnette Napolitano said of the album: It was pretty miserable. It's not a happy little disc. We had a string of bad luck and [Bloodletting] was the tail end of it. A particularly bad relationship. It had never happened to me until I was 29 years old. I had a hard time getting over it.
Singer-songwriter and bassist Johnette Napolitano first formed a group with former Sparks bassist James Mankey on guitar in Los Angeles in 1982. Their first recording was the song "Heart Attack," released under the band name Dreamers on the compilation album The D.I.Y. Album (1982). [1]
"Tomorrow Wendy" is a song written and originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Andy Prieboy. Released in 1990 as the lead single from his first solo album ...Upon My Wicked Son, Prieboy recorded the song as a duet with Johnette Napolitano.
A press release for the Vowel Movement album stated, "Holly and Johnette formed the band on New Year's Eve in 1993 when neither of them had a date. They drank, smoked pot, did each others Tarot cards, then the I-Ching, drank some more, Johnette picked up her bass, Holly got on her drums, Johnette started mumbling, and Vowel Movement was born."
Napolitano was inspired to write "Ghost of a Texas Ladies' Man" after a supernatural experience she had during an overnight stay at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, in March 1991, while the band were on tour as the opening act for Sting. [2] Napolitano revealed to the Detroit Free Press in 1992, "There's this horny ghost there that goes for ...