Album Notes

Deborah Holland returns with her long-awaited fourth solo album, BAD GIRL ONCE…. Its title track, a buoyant ode to wild days gone by, sets the stage for an album that effortlessly crosses genres but still showcases her as a “lyrical ironist to match Warren Zevon.” (R. Deitz, Sing Out! magazine) The album’s mix of samples and loops with acoustic instruments blends styles as diverse as folk, rock, blues, jazz, and electronica—all strikingly unified by Deborah’s voice.

Deborah’s tremendous singing and songwriting talents were first introduced via two critically acclaimed albums with the trio Animal Logic (rounded out by Stewart Copeland [Police] and jazz great Stanley Clarke). Subsequent duets with Jackson Browne and Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) as well as her first two solo releases broadened her audience and found her venturing into the acoustic genre. THE BOOK OF SURVIVAL, Holland’s third solo release, was praised by diverse media such as the LA Weekly and Dirty Linen and received radio play on WXPN, WUMB, Mountain Stage, WDET, WFHP, and others.

BAD GIRL ONCE is the first release from the newly-formed independent label, RageOn Records. The album’s roster of Deborah-penned songs is rounded out by two covers, Beach Boys classic “Sloop John B” and Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times (Come Again No More),” traditional songs which are recharged here by Deborah’s modern loop-sample arrangements. Additionally, the track “On My Way” was co-written with Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman.

Deborah will be touring nationally beginning in Fall 2006.

“As a wordsmith, Deborah Holland concerns herself with the balance between heart and mind. As an artist, she makes the balance seem effortless.”
--Pamela Murray Winters, Dirty Linen magazine