Penny Jo Pullus
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Penny Jo Pullus

Austin, Texas, United States | INDIE

Austin, Texas, United States | INDIE
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"Austin Chronicle"

Penny Jo Pullus' new CD is not diminished by the long and awkward title My Barn Having Burned I can Now See the Moon"While she does well opening with Brian Setezers "Knife Feels Like Justice"Pullus' songs "Chimayo" and "This Time, Next Time" are powerful statements on their own, blending Pullus' roots-rock tendencies with her love for old AM radio on hand-clapping tunes like "Little Black Dress". - Magaret Moser


""Leicester Bangs" UK"


PENNY JO PULLUS - MY BARN HAVING BURNED, I CAN NOW SEE THE MOON (FREEDOM RECORDS)
Great album title, which apparently is a Taoist saying, and a great country rocking CD from this Austin resident. It has been five years since her last release and on this listening I don't know why it has taken so long. She can rock and "Knife Feels Like Justice" is a cracking opening track, but she can also sing the blues with feeling and this is highlighted on the lovely country blues "Lord Help Me". The Faces Ian McLagan is featured on the album, and none more so on the spirited, feisty rocker "This Time, Next Time". Lucinda Williams is a loose reference point if you are interested in this music, but this lady is so much more than a pale imitation of Ms. Williams. She played in the UK in 2003, I can't wait to see her tour on the back of this great album.
- Steve O'Donnell


"Listen Up Mark Bialczak"

A dozen years of living in the thriving musical hive of Austin, Texas, obviously have agreed with Penny Jo Pullus.
On "My Barn Having Burned I Can Now See the Moon," her distinctive voice will happily sound familiar to Central New Yorkers who remember her from her Syracuse days with Trailer Trash.
In fact, she reprises "Baby Please," one of the best songs from those 1990s days, as a big, weeping, country lament.
With the help of producer Ron Flynt, from power-pop band 20/20, Pullus makes sure to make this 11-song collection is much more an alt-country-roots record than her previous CDs.
Pullus tackles Brian Setzer's hip "Knife Feels Like Justice," Anny Celsi's edgy "Little Black Dress" and Tom Gillam's deep "We Don't Have to Go Home."
The best of her originals include the big beat love song "This Time, Next Time," in which she holds onto the hope and lyrics at the same time with the line, This time, I'm gonna get it right."
Spellbinding violin work by Warren Hood enriches her "Chimayo," and Syracuse pals Jake Cappazolo on bass, John Mangicaro on drums and Scott Ebner on piano and organ help drive home the point of Val Haynes' lovely "Lord Help Me."

- Syracuse Post-Standard


Discography

The Natives-1981
Rockin' Bones-1988
The Muddpuppies- 1994
Penny Jo's Trailer Trash-Acme Vocano-1996
Penny Jo Pullus- Lucky # 7- 2000
My Turn To Howl -2003
My Barn having burned,I can now see the moon 2009

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Penny Jo Pullus has been kickin' up her boot heels coast to coast around America and Europe. If you are lucky, you have seen or heard her perform. If not, you are in for a real treat! 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 w/ a bullwhip. Are you ready? Hold on tight for a fantastic ride.
Penny Jo looked to guitar slinger friend Warner Hodges, (Jason and the Scorchers), to help make her 1st self titled solo attempt. It's been 10 years since this firecracker, who led the Alt. Country band "Penny Jo's Trailer Trash" in Northern N.Y., defected South. She blew through Nashville and left it in her rear view mirror bypassing rigidity of Nashville and headed for the musically eclectic and organic Austin, Texas. Here she has been honing her songwriting craft and assembling her biting and twang influenced band, “I am not looking to be a retro museum piece." She grins.
Similar to Roseanne Cash and Lucinda Williams, Pullus has dug deeper to find the right songs and voice of a mature songwriter, to shake off the "country chick singer stamp.” What Penny Jo is now up to is decidedly different. She has combined a roots sound with the right pop influences due to the vision of producer Ron Flynt, of 20/20 fame, to develop a unique style that has her inspired as well as singing at her best. You may find her with a host of her usual suspects Ian McLagan (The Faces), Jud Newcomb (The Bump Band), Chip Dolan (Kelly Willis), John Bush (Edie Brikel),John Jordan (Chris Duerte).

She has charted admirably on the Americana Music Chart, Progressive Country Charts and various European charts.
"Ever since I decided that this is what I wanted to do with my life, it's been about gut feelings, about doing what I like to do. About finding my own way of being me," she shrugs…..