Juliana Hatfield is one of America’s foremost uncompromising indie/pop/rock musician-songwriters. She has a vast, well-respected discography spanning nearly twenty years, from her first band (college radio favorites the Blake Babies) through her Atlantic Records solo modern-rock hits (“My Sister”, “Spin The Bottle”) and continuing with her prolific twenty-first century output, which includes the wicked-cool Some Girls (Hatfield, Freda Love, and Heidi Gluck) side project.

On “Sittin’ In A Tree…”, Hatfield takes her distinctive, iconic, melodic voice and comes together with alt/country newcomers Frank Smith (“Boston’s answer to the Band or Magnolia Electric Co.” –The Boston Phoenix). Frank Smith, with their rootsy rock, bring Hatfield into territory she has never explored before. Banjos, pedal steel, and alternately rollicking and noir-ish guitars and keyboards blend and bounce off of each other in this eclectic 6-song EP collection of Hatfield compositions. Think of Gram Parsons dancing with the Go-Go’s. Or envision the love children of REM and Liz Phair, with Nick Cave and Gillian Welch as the godparents.

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