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Artist
Julie Neumark
12+ albums
sxsw 2010rockamericanacountryroots
about
After earning her music degree at Indiana University, Julie took off to seek her fortune in Los Angeles. She found work quickly, with a recurring role on the Lifetime series Oh, Baby, as a younger version of Cynthia Stevenson’s lead character in flashback scenes. Neumark was offered a part in a comedy, but there was a catch: She had to play guitar. Unfortunately, her experience with music had only been vocal, but typically she didn’t let that get in her way. With a straight face she assured the director that, yes, she knew her way around all six strings. Within the next year her calendar filled with solo acoustic gigs, which expanded into band shows as she put her own group together. The more she wrote and performed, the harder she drove herself. She drew inspiration from Beth Hart, Dylan, the Stones, Janis Joplin, Lucinda Williams, Shelby Lynne, Marc Broussard – artists whose music reflected the kind of urgency and honesty that ignites Neumark’s creativity. Her following grew, yet something was still missing, an empty piece yet to be filled in the puzzle. The picture was completed by a sobering rite of passage. When her father, Michael, began to succumb to the cancer he had battled for five years, Neumark dropped everything and flew back to his side. “Watching my father die was a wakeup call,” she says, quietly. “It made me understand that none of us knows how long we have. That opened me up, and I allowed myself to become more vulnerable than I’d ever been – enough to ha
