Friday, January 08, 2016

Jill Sobule and giving people you adore more power than you should

San Jose Mercury News, 7th jan has an interview with Jill Sobule, ahead of a gig this Sunday at Redwood City's Club Fox on Sunday, where she shares the bill with Mr Kasim Sulton.

The piece talks about Todd.

Sobule's first album, 1990's "Things Here Are Different," was produced by Todd Rundgren.
"I was a big fan. I hadn't met, really, any celebrities, let alone one of my icons. I hadn't been in the studio much. And Todd was really intimidating back then, in that time period. So it was really sort of semi-terrifying.
"Right before then, I was just excited to play an open mic at The Bitter End in New York. That was a big deal. Or right before that, I played Josephina's Pizza in Denver, Colorado. So my eyes were overly wide open," she says, laughing. "I didn't have any expectations."
The album failed to register with record buyers. The next one, produced by Joe Jackson, went unreleased. "People who you adore, you sometimes give them more power than you should. And I was having problems singing. I was tense and probably going through some sort of mental state. Part of it was not having confidence in myself."

2 comments:

Jim Marquis said...

I got to see her and John Doe play together at a small club here in Seattle. Very charming woman.

Scott said...

Indeed. Met her many years ago after a gig and she was lovely and spoke very kindly about TR.