Let's Blow It All

Excerpts from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

I imagined a young girl signing a record contract, but with the mind of someone who had been in the business for years. She is a girl who is aware of the whims of the marketplace and who understands the fickle loyalties that waver and in some cases disappear. She knows that they’ll forget about her at some point (unless she dies young and pretty [which she has every intention of not doing], in which case she will be remembered forever) and she knows that her worth as cultural currency will inevitably diminish, as it does.

She buys guitars “for all the kids.” Isn’t that a worthy use — one of the worthiest — of the — of any — money? (The importance of arts — and arts funding — is the subtext of my new song “Such A Beautiful Girl,” from *How To Walk Away *.)

This was, I think, my first recorded slide guitar. I love how this particular slide part makes me feel. It does something to my heart, and I can’t explain it, and I didn’t do it on purpose. I was so pleasantly surprised by what came through my hands. It’s the mystery of music. The part is so pretty and sad and nostalgic and heartbreaking, even to me, the one who played it.