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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