You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

Like a phoenix, rising from the ashes, Jean Caffeine ascends again after more than two year respite from the high profile life of local rock-stardom. Starting as a S.F. punk rocker, moving on to the East Coast to be N.Y. club D.J./downtown celebrity/Pulsallama and Clambake drummer, landing on the Austin's Third Coast as an Y'allternative roadhouse darlin' to finally being just her plain old grown up, 36-year-old self: Rocker. Folkie. Tired. Pissed off. Renewed. Generative. Soul searcher. Art teacher. Home owner.

The new album, Knocked Down 7 Times Got up 8, will be released on CD and cassette March 7th on Joe Records. It features 13 previously unreleased tracks recorded in Austin. Muscians include: Jon Dee Graham, Chris Searles, Joey Shuffield and Tony Scalzo from Fastball, Threadgill's Troubador's; Ron Erwin and Champ Hood, Lars Gšransson, former Hickiod's drummer; Tennysen LeMaster and ''Truckstop'' members'; Dennis Ku, Mick Buck, and Andrew Dyken.

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"...a winning combination of wry worldly wisdom and guileless ingenuity. Four Stars'' Austin Chronicle, March 14, 1997''

''...Caffeine flirts with making a Sothwestern 'Exile in Guyville' or even (yikes) a Texan 'Jagged Little Pill'..closer to the hallowed ground of Lucinda Williams'"- No Deppression, March '97

''From punk to country, rock to pop, Jean Caffeine provides the perpetual alternative. Her latest CD is her most eclectic and electric collection as well as her best.''-Rob Patterson".
"Miss I-was-alternative-country before-alternative-country-was-cool." .-Austin American Statesmen '97

Four Stars-San Diego Union Tribune '97

''cross between Brenda Lee and Patti Smith.''Austin American Statesmen '92

''IT'S PEOPLE LIKE JEAN CAFFEINE THAT SINGLE-HANDEDLY KILLED LIVE MUSIC IN NEW YORK.''/ -letter to the editor, Austin Chronicle.
''Austin's cowpunk goddess unleashes a seething, soulful catharsis of a rock'n' roll album.''-Dallas Observer August 29th, 1997
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