Julianne Richards started out her musical story at seventeen as the guitarist for the hard-core punk band Snatch in Atlanta, Georgia. After two 7in records and a CD, she began playing with other local bands, while touring with Snatch to support their record. They opened for Hole, Babes and Toyland, Bikini Kill, and toured with many of the bands of the era of “grunge.” Alice Donut, the Dwarves, even Gwar, was among the some of the bands they spent time touring with. After several years on independent labels and sleeping on floors across the country, she went on to spend time writing her own songs and getting into the studio to record as much as possible. During this time, she began setting up a small home studio, starting out with just a basic 4-track and microphone.
This eventually led her to leaving Snatch, and in an effort to grow some more musically, she left Atlanta for New York. She began listening to jazz, and swapped her Les Paul and Marshall amp for an acoustic guitar and a new eclectic sound. She wrote over thirty songs her first year in NYC, thus beginning her journey as a singer/songwriter. She did many solo acoustic sets at the local Sidewalk Café leading her to work with local producer/guitarist and close friend, Jimi Zhivago. She put a band together consisting of an upright bass player, a drummer /percussionist, guitarist, and herself. They played out consistently for the first year while she recorded a six song EP. Geffen Records picked her up shortly after the release of the EP.
She recorded an album but Geffen merged within the corporate industry and she began re-thinking the major label route in so far as getting out a completed record. She re-released the EP, and is thinking about releasing the songs from the unreleased Geffen album titled: “the falcon of Manhattan.”
As for the present, she has a whole new batch of songs, and a few more to record to complete an entire record. Several of the songs previously recorded are being used for the former television show “felicity” and on the Fox network show “the Shield.” She has signed with the Licensing Company “Sugaroo” which has a whole catalog of songs of hers to hear and information on obtaining them for use in movies, etc. If interested, just go to: www.sugaroo.com and simply look up her name.