Power Pop Twang!
Penny Jo Pullus has been kickin' up her boot heels coast to coast around America and Europe. She is an independent spirit and a songwriter who shuns the confinement of "pigeon holes." Her sultry voice can caress you with a feather or slap you with a bullwhip. Are you ready? Hold on tight for a fantastic ride...
"Growing up I had an AM radio attached to my ear," explains Penny Jo Pullus of the latest chapters in her musical explorations. "I slept with it under my pillow. I am also the youngest of four siblings so whatever my brother and sisters were listening to, I soaked up like a sponge." It's been 11years since this firecracker, who led the Alt. Country band Penny Jo's Trailer Trash in Northern N.Y., defected South with two "Sammy's" - Best new artist of 1994 and Best Roots Rock Group of 1995 - tucked under her arm. She blew through Nashville and left it in her rear view mirror bypassing its high gloss and rigidity and headed for the musically eclectic and traditionally organic Austin, Texas.
Here she has been honing her songwriting craft and assembling her biting and twang influenced band, "We have more teeth than fur," she grins. I am not looking to be a retro-country museum piece. Similar to Roseanne Cash and Lucinda Williams, Pullus has dug deeper to find the right songs and voice of a mature song writer, to shake off the "country chick singer stamp." It is clear that she is showing a new and different side of Penny Jo. She has combined a roots sound with the right pop influences due to Producer Ron Flynt (20/20) to develop a unique style that has her inspired as well as singing at her best.
.Musical guests include...Scrappy Jud, Eric Hisaw and Ian Maclagan.
