June Babies

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June Babies
Cover of June Babies CD by Rebecca Hollweg.jpg
Studio album by
Released9 October 2001
Genre singer-songwriter
Length41:46
Label Emu Records
Producer Andy Hamill
Rebecca Hollweg chronology
The Demos
(1999)
June Babies
(2001)
Orange Roses
(2008)

June Babies, the first album by English singer-songwriter Rebecca Hollweg, was released on 9 October 2001 on Emu Records. [1] Consisting of melodic pop songs, it featured string arrangements by Chris Bowden and a guest appearance by Jeb Loy Nichols. It was critically acclaimed in the British national and music press and was played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. The title track was used in a BBC television programme about women runners. [2] [3]

Contents

Production and launch

The album was produced and recorded by Andy Hamill in London.

Reception

Dan Cairns, writing in the Culture section of The Sunday Times , praised "the title track’s ode to friendship and late developers, the bare-bones upcloseness of Where Are You Going? and the wryly observational Is It Me You’re Looking For?" and said: "there is something of [Joni] Mitchell in her soaring vocal lines and [Suzanne] Vega in her confessional ones, though there are unexpected echoes, too, of Marianne Faithfull at her throatiest". [4]

Rob Beattie in Q magazine described her as a "gifted tunesmith, happy to wrangle words into memorable phrases ('You cannot see these bruises/They are inside my head')" and praised "Weather Song, with its infectious chorus, and the beautiful, bouncing Warhol and Williams". [5]

Songs from the album were played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. The title track was used in a BBC television programme about women runners. [2] [3]

Track listing

  1. "June Babies" (3:14)
  2. "Getting On" (3:35)
  3. "Sorry" (2:44)
  4. "Warhol & Williams/Playout" (4:27)
  5. "Is It Me You're Looking For?" (3:48)
  6. "Long Lie" (3:14)
  7. "Dancing in the Kitchen" (3:04)
  8. "Weather Song" (2:19)
  9. "Have You Heard the Birds Sing in the Night?" (3:30)
  10. "Take Me Away" (3:38)
  11. "Where Are You Going?" (3:31)
  12. "Existential" (3:39)

Running time: 41:46

Personnel

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References

  1. "Rebecca Hollweg". Discogs . Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Garforth Arts Festival 2008: Rebecca Hollweg to provide dash of musical class". Yorkshire Evening Post . 21 July 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Rebecca Hollweg & Edwina Hayes live at THE HALO" (Press release). www.kentfolk.com. 9 May 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. Cairns, Dan (6 January 2002). "On record – The week's essential new releases – Pop". The Sunday Times . London.
  5. Beattie, Rob (April 2002). "Otherworldly debut from West Country songwriter". Q .