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'Obviously a schooled musician who knows what makes a song click' Dan Aquliante, The New York Post, 'Looks with a sharp eye at character' The New York Times, 'the brainy New Yorker' Jim Farber, The New York Daily News, '..uncannily true pictures of contemporary American life' Billboard 'Black Watch Kilt' is Julia Douglass' first studio recoding in seven years. Produced by the Twin Cities' own star producer, Andy Thompson (Jeremy Messersmith, Dan Wilson), this six song Ep has beautiful, rich, full arrangements, that show off the melodies and harmonies and her off kilter, yet universal sweet and sour sensibility . Written and recorded in Minneapolis, Mn, 2013. * * * * * * About 'Black Watch Kilt' by Julia Douglass I was living over a grocery store in Northeast Minneapolis the first year I moved back to Minnesota, after I had been living in New York City for twenty years. I had had writer's block for long time in New York. I could never finish anything and it was time to leave. It was the winter of 2010-11. And I would stare out the window onto the parking lot and I'd look at the snow, it was a crazy snowy winter. The worst they'd had in years, 2011. I had been gone for so long, it was really weird being back. The people I used to know were gone or had moved on. I'd look out the window at the snow and all of the cars pulling in and out, and I would get really into watching the dramas and scenes in the parking lot. I'd see employees smoking on their break, I'd see lovers meeting there, I'd see a lot of cars almost crash into each other. When the weather was really terrible I would stare out the window and think 'I hope every gets home okay,' as I'd watch them slide out of the parking lot into traffic. I just got really attached to the people, and their groceries and the goings on at the parking lot. It was the first time I had ever lived anywhere that had good light and t
