"A" Rating review from North County Times

A    "Beloved Stranger"

Cindy Lee Berryhill

Populuxe Records

It's been far too long since we've gotten an album from Cindy Lee Berryhill. She's the original local gal made good, part of San Diego's 1980s musical explosion in which Berryhill, the Beat Farmers, Mojo Nixon, Fattburger and the Cheathams came storming out of the county and inserted this area in the nation's music consciousness.

More importantly, the Encinitas resident is one of the best songwriters to ever come out of the county, penning such alt-folk classics as "Damn, I Wish I Was a Man," "She Had Everything" and "Who's Gonna Save the World?"

In that she's not had a new studio record in over a decade, it's little surprise that the collection of 11 songs on her new CD is as strong as she's produced since her debut. In "When Did Jesus Become a Republican?", "Forty Cent Raise" and the heartbreaking "Beloved Stranger," she has three songs as utterly perfect as her three above-named classics (which all came off her 1987 debut).

Joined by John Doe of X and Dave Alvin on a couple of tracks each, and backed by a crack band throughout, Berryhill seems more confident as singer than in the past, or at least comfortable with her distinctively nasal twang.

Often political but never to the point of excluding those who hold views divergent from her own, Berryhill's lyrics are consistently a delight of word play and imagery, perhaps never more so than on "Beloved Stranger" ---- a tear-jerker of a song about the trials her family has experienced in dealing with a brain injury to one of their ranks: "Beloved stranger / I hold so dear / You have the face of someone / who used to live here."

---- JT

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SONGS OF PROTEST: An Evening With The Songwriters Featured At Neil Young's Living With War...

SONGS OF PROTEST
An evening with the songwriters featured at Neil Youngs'
Living With War Today Website
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With Your Hostess:
* Cindy Lee Berryhill("When Did Jesus
Become A Republican?", "Forty Cent Raise")

*Josh Hisle ("A Traitor's Death", "Wasteland")

* Jenny Yates ("Shine A Light", "They Called Her America")

* John Hughes ("Bring 'Em On")

*Gale Mead ("Letters Home")

And very Special Guests
John Doe (X), Rev.Madison Shockley
& more.

Saturday, Feb. 10th, 2007 Doors Open: 8:00 p.m.

Location: LARGO
432 North Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036 Phone (323) 852-1073
Tickets are $20.00 at the door, while supplies last
- or -
To ensure a spot in the house, make a dinner reservation!

Don't miss this remarkable evening of protest songs by some of today's most topical songwriters. Neil Young, hot off the release of his protest album "Living With War", has created a website which features stories, music and videos from his album, as well as the music of hundreds of other exciting songwriters featuring their protest music. This evening is a chance to see some of them live, along with other special guests to be announced, some not to be announced and all not to be missed.

Please check it out at http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/index.html

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CINDY LEE COVER GIRL

Cindy Lee is the feature story in this months Troubadour Magazine. Check it out:

http://www.sandiegotroubadour.com/

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NEIL YOUNG WEBSITE MAKES "WHEN DID JESUS BECOME A REPUBLICAN?" A STANDOUT

Neil Youngs protest website has a nice piece on Cindy Lees song. Check it out on the front page(bottom right) at:

www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday

"RELIGION

WHEN DID JESUS BECOME A REPUBLICAN?
CINDY LEE BERRYHILL
by RB Warford, LWW Today
This is a funky and funny track with bangin' drums and questioning lyric content, sung by Cindy Lee with attitude. Perfect coffee music for Karl Rove and co."

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CINDY LEE SONG FEATURED AT NEIL YOUNG WEBSITE-NOW AT NUMBER 13!!

You can find Cindy Lee's song "When Did Jesus Become A Republican?" featured on Neil Youngs topical website: Living With War Today. Other artists include Steve Earle, Kris Kristoffersen, Neil Young and alot more. Here's the web address:
http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/

Songs of Protest are on the right side of the page. Click on "more songs" and there is "....Jesus" at number 13. Help "...Jesus" get to number 1, and tell your friends! 

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http://cindyleeberryhill.com

Ya'all can hear one of my songs(When Did Jesus Become A Republican) at...(thanks for bearing with me while I figure out how to work this space called mine) :

http://www.cindyleeberryhill.com

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