1. For You To Do 03:52 -- 2. Real Tragedies 04:14 -- 3. Please Say Some Good 03:49 -- 4. From Above You 03:33 -- 5. This Place 03:29 -- 6. Double Bind 01:24 -- 7. Your Door 03:23 -- 8. Almost 02:27 -- 9. Give It Up 03:35 -- 10. Chanson 04:07 -- -- -- 25-year-old Johanna Samuels broadens the definition of pop music. The melodically and lyrically focused singer-songwriter sings about the depths and dualities of life with her unique bell-like voice. Standing on the shoulders of the great musicians of the 1960's and 70's she manages to create a sound and sense of musical place that is completely her own. The native New Yorker grew up in Los Angeles, where from a young age she sang in school choirs and obsessively learned to play the songs of her musical heroes by ear. -- After moving back to New York at the age of 18, Samuels began writing her own songs alone in her bedroom. Soon after, she was playing solo shows at small downtown music venues like East Village’s Sidewalk Café. -- The songs on Double Bind were written in Johanna’s apartment in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and all share a sentiment of necessary separation or as Samuels puts it “…attempting to own myself and stand on my two feet.” She explains, “While recording the album, a good friend had described the term Double Bind: a dynamic wherein two emotional demands are met but consequently negate each other, leaving one person to feel trapped. For some reason that struck a deep chord in me. It is from that place that many of these songs grew.” -- credits -- -- Musicians: Johanna Samuels -- Fen Ikner -- Ken Edelson -- Turner Stough -- Kelly Pratt -- Emily Holden -- Stephanie Brown -- Marie Page -- Sean Pierce -- Produced and Engineered by Fen Ikner -- -- -- (Source: Artist PR) -- -- -- UPC 888295088671 -- -- -- The Amazon ASIN for the mp3 version of this CD is not known -- -- -- Another listing by Zip