– Juliana Hatfield – Live at Lee’s Palace, Toronto – November 18, 1997 – CBC Radio Canada –
Juliana Hatfield this morning in a concert from Toronto on November 18, 1997 and recorded by CBC Radio Canada.
A highly respected artist who has been around since the early 90s, first as a member of Blake Babies and later, Lemonheads. Taking the next logical step and forming The Juliana Hatfield Three was a page turner for her career since it gave audiences a chance to hear what Julian Hatfield was really all about. And they loved it.
Breaking up in 1995 to examine a solo career before putting The Juliana Hatfield Three back together. In 2014, The Juliana Hatfield Three reunited two decades after it disbanded. Hatfield used PledgeMusic to raise funds for the new album, Whatever, My Love, the trio’s first since 1993’s Become What You Are. Hatfield explained, “We haven’t totally reinvented the wheel or anything,” adding that the tracks feature “stuff I am sort of known for, I guess. But I am a lot more confident now than I was then with the first album. And I had more fun recording this one.” The twelve tracks for Whatever, My Love were recorded at Nuthouse Recording in Hoboken, New Jersey, with Beaujour and Hatfield co-producing. The lead single, “If I Could,” was released in December 2014 and premiered in Rolling Stone. That month, the album was made available for pre-order on American Laundromat Records, with an announced release date of February 17, 2015. The band also announced a U.S. tour throughout February, visiting cities on both coasts and in the Midwest, with stops at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City and The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles.
In 2015, Hatfield and Paul Westerberg announced that they had formed a new group called the I Don’t Cares. They released the album Wild Stab in 2016.
Since then, Hatfield has released a number of solo albums, including two albums of cover songs—Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John (2018) and Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police (2019) and three albums of original work: Pussycat (2017), Weird (2019), and Blood (2021).
Tonight it’s a look back at Juliana Hatfield in the 90s. A performance recorded live at Lee’s Palace in Toronto, by the venerable CBC Radio on November 18, 1997.
