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San
Francisco Bay Area Songwriter Jill Carole blends the confessional
with lush vocals and moody melodies, giving her songs an intimate
and cinematic flavor. In her typical tongue-in-cheek manner,
Jill refers to her creations as "romantic, mini home movies."
Her background in poetry and fiction writing shines through,
giving her songs a sense of place and story, each one a literary
landscape, chock-full of double entendres and cleverly crafted
wordplay. Jill paints with her words, creating layers of meanings
and colors, and this quality is reflected in her textural arrangements.

Jill's
music has been called dark and edgy, passionate and visceral,
quirky, "a Tori Amos/Kate Bush fusion with pop sensibilities."
Her latest tracks have inspired one reviewer to call Jill Carole
"Beck on estrogen."

Raised
in Birmingham, Alabama, Jill Carole's musical influences were
shaped by her mother, a local opera singer and Beatles fan,
who turned her on to vibrato-laden Vivaldi and contralto renditions
of "Love Me Do" and other Beatles favorites - "usually
before 8 AM each day," Jill quips. Carole left the South
to study at Amherst College and then at The Berklee College
of Music, where she twice received the top singer-songwriter
award. She migrated to California, trading her acoustic guitar
for an electric, and rekindling her affair with the piano, which
has become her instrument of choice. "The piano is more
dreamy, like my songscapes," says Jill.

In
1998, Jill Carole was signed to England's Mystic Records when
she released her first CD "The Easter Bunny, Sex and Santa
Claus." She promoted the CD by touring the U.K. as a support
act for fellow Mystic Artist Colin Blunstone, former lead singer
for the legendary Zombies. Jill returned to England the following
year, as an opener for Al Stewart. She has also opened shows
for such artists as Love and Rockets' David J., Byrds founder
Roger McGuinn, and Suzzy Roche of the Roches. In the studio,
her songs have featured Bob Weir (the Grateful Dead), drummer
Steve Perkins (Jane's Addiction), guitarist Paul Robinson (Dan
Hicks, Al Stewart), and keyboardist Jim Pugh (Chris Isaak, Robert
Cray). Celebrated musical whiz Scott Mathews (Elvis Costello,
Bonnie Raitt, John Hiatt) produced her second CD, a "Technicolor
Life."

Jill
Carole performed throughout the Bay Area with her San Francisco
band, Jill Carole & the Contrarians, until the birth of
her son London in 2002. With London as their inspiration, Jill
Carole & Paul Robinson joined forces to create a 20-song
all original children's CD "Jungle Jam," giving themselves
the moniker: the flutterbys. Jill's song from that CD: "A
Cow Who Likes To Whistle" features special guest performances
by Oscar-nominated actress Piper Laurie, folk-swing icon Dan
Hicks , Al "Year-Of-The-Cat" Stewart, and award-winning
whistler & voice artist (the "voice" of Woodstock
in the Emmy-nominated Peanuts cartoon,"She's a Good Skate,
Charlie Brown"), Jason Victor Serinus!. "A Cow Who
Likes To Whistle" was a finalist and won an honorable mention
in the 2009 International Songwriting Contest.
Jill Carole is currently playing solo, and is working on material
for a new ("grown-up," aka Adult Alternative) CD,
which she says will be "more melodic, more romantic, more
dreamy, more keyboard."

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