Someone recently described Julieann Banks' award-winning songwriting and performing as "sounding  like a cross between Sheryl Crow and Joan Armatrading".  In an industry of "sound alikes" that's not a combination one runs across every day.   And it's a comparison that's not easy to back up, both artists are formidable performers, songwriters, singers and musicians with their own signature styles.  But Banks can do it with seeming ease.  She flat knocks it out of the park and then some on her 2016 release, "All These Things" while adding a splash of the class and voice of Patsy Cline and a salting of the regional twang and sass of Lucinda Williams just for good measure.   She likes to call it "Renegade Soul" and the edgy, electric emotion of her songs and singing are probably what earns her awards such as Austin Music Magazine’s “Best Female Vocalist Rock,” one of the Top Ten in South by Southwest Austin Chronicle Music Awards’ “Best Songwriter,” and Austin’s Local Flavor Music Magazine’s “Best Pipes,” among many others.  

Julieann Banks is a bit of a rambler, (but then what good story teller or song-writer isn't?), spending half of her adult life in Austin Texas and they other half in her hometown of Shreveport Louisiana where she resides currently.  She is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, bassist & guitarist, and she does it all with a passion wrought of a lifetime commitment to being a full-time professional musician. A palpable magnetic energy shines through her, engaging and electrifying audiences who say, ”I can tell that you love what you do, it shows!”.

Her performances are filled with an easy audience banter and an approachable vulnerability that keeps her in touch with the real people & stories that populate her rootsy vibrant songs.