Julia Waters

Portland-based singer/songwriter Julia Waters exposes the complexities of inner-world landscapes through song. Waters’ debut album, Everything Is About To Be Okay, is a commitment to lyrical honesty and a composition of playful interpretations of the sometimes uprooting emotional conditions of being human.

“…a vivid and delicate collection of musical poetry in motion. These deeply intimate songs, at times, echo the raw emotional honesty of '90s icons like Ani DiFranco and Natalie Merchant. But here, Waters stands firmly in her own voice. It's a beautiful, honest arrival." -- Joshua Thomas

"...[her] honey-soft voice echoes that of Joni Mitchell" -- Bren Swogger, Indie Alt

"Steeped in the Laurel Canyon folk tradition, ‘Everything Is About To Be Okay’ unfolds in spellbinding folky dreamscapes of fingerpicked arpeggios, graceful piano lines, gentle harmonies, strings, drums, and birdsong. Her beautiful voice is tenderly restrained and emotive with songbird-clear highs and warm, rich lows. Her lyrics, however, carry the same razor edge hidden inside Joni Mitchell’s most delicate melodies. Beneath the sonic loveliness and meditativeness lies a precise, unsparing commitment to truth— her words move from gratitude for the tenderly observed natural world, to solace in difficult times with no punches pulled, to moments of quiet ferocity. Waters offers the world a great deal of grace, tempered with a touch of grit." -- Malachi Graham of Small Million