Barbara J.
United States, California, Camarillo
Barbara J.
My cover of "Words Don't Come Easy" is included in WNIR's radio special featuring great covers by Indie artists in every genre! Tune in nightly through Sept. 15 from 7 - 9 (expired link). (eastern time, US) and check it out!
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Hello to all Barbara J. listeners and fans!
So excited to see my cover of "Shadows," from my first album (Sundown: A Gordon Lightfoot Retrospective), is #11 in its genre here in California and in the Top 100 nationwide!! This is especially significant to me, as my third album is set to drop around Valentine's Day! Please stay tuned to N1M for details on that new work, along with a track or two from that project that I will likely post here for your listening!
Until then, Happy February to all! Thanking you all, again, for tuning in.
Best always,
Barbara J.
Hi, All!
Thanks so much for your messages and listens to my songs here on Number One Music!! I have been so honored to read your kind words and am so glad you are enjoying my covers on these songs! It was a busy summer, spent mostly at home, given current times, but that gave me even more time to work on the songs for my third album! I was hoping to release that early this month, but final production and release considerations have led me to push the release back to late this year or early 2021. That said, I have several singles that I've recorded in the past year or so, some current covers and some old faves of mine. Hoping the release at least a couple of those in the coming weeks, and will be sure to post one of them here when the time comes.
Thanks again. I appreciate you all more than you can know!
Barbara J.
Hello, All!
I hope this finds you enjoying a lovely spring and ready for a great summer. My most recent album, "A Box Full of Records," was released on March 1, 2019. This one was a project, for sure, with musicians in Nashville laying the instrumental tracks there (at the same studio where I went in person to record my first album), then shooting them my way, electronically. We recorded the vocals out here in a studio out here, then back they went to Nashville for mixing! A process, for sure, but the results are well worth the listen! You can check out samples at: (expired link) It is free to listen there, and there are also links to my Spotify page, where you can listen to every song on this album, as well as from my first album, for free--please check out my Spotify Artist's page via that link, if you can, and like it or follow it while you are there! This is very important and goes a long way toward getting even more listeners to hear my covers of these classic hit songs!
I am still waiting to see which song I am going to put up here at (expired link). Your feedback on Spotify will help in that regard. Please head over to (expired link), and check out the songs on my new album!
Hello, NumberOneMusic Listeners!
I hope that this finds you all well as the holiday season is now well underway. So glad to have received so much positive feedback on the songs from my first album, that so many of you have messaged me about. Was also thrilled to learn yesterday that my cover of "If You Could Read My Mind" is at #1 in California on N1M and #23, nationally!! This is great news, as that was one of my fave tracks to cover on the album!
We are in the studio now, laying the tracks for my second album, to be released after the first of the year. Please stay tuned for details as well as for some fresh new takes on classic hits from the 70s and 80s!
Wishing you all the happiest of holiday!
Yours in great music,
Barbara J.
Hello, N1M Listeners!!
Writing today to thank each of you so very much for listening to the tracks from my album "Sundown: A Gordon Lightfoot Retrospective," and for subscribing to my page/updates!! Work has begun on my second album, which will be a compilation of cover songs that were high on the charts in the 1970s and early 80s. A super-fun project with an extra this time--a pre-release will be coming out by the end of July! This is a really cool tune that saw chart-topping success in Europe in the early 80s--prepare to move your feet, as this is a dance tune!! Can't wait to send it your way. Stay tuned and thanks again for your support!
Yours in great music,
Barbara J.
Hello, to All!
I can't tell you how glad I am to see so many new subscribers and fans on Number One Music! I am go happy that you are listening to and enjoying the songs on my first album. The songs are seeing some good success, especially "Shadows" and "All the Lovely Ladies." Please keep listening and, if you have not done so already, head on over to the Facebook page I dedicated to promoting my album at: (expired link)
While you are there, please give it a "Like"! You can also see links to other songs and some stations where my music is playing. I am truly so thrilled to see so many great people listening and I thank you again. Album #2 is in the works, so please stay tuned for more great music, hopefully later this year!
Best regards,
Barbara Williams, aka "Barbara J."
Hello, All!
I hope this finds you all starting off 2016 in fine fashion--and great music! I can't thank you enough for subscribing to my mailing list and listening to my music! Just over one year since the album's release and it is getting some great attention!
"All the Lovely Ladies (Acoustic Version)" won the Best Song in its genre from The Akademia Music Awards in November and is now playing on Berkshire Media and Power FM stations, both in the US and internationally! It is quite a thrill, I have to admit!
My cover of "Song for a Winter's Night," was featured on Women of Substance Radio's Holiday Playlist, as well as on their iTunes Podcast. The song wound up in their Top 20 for the month of December!
I am so pleased that more people are getting to hear my rendering of the songs of such a classic musician and songwriter. Please pass the word along about this album--I am really glad to have songs that were perhaps not as well known by many ((expired link)., "All the Lovely Ladies), getting this exposure. Copies of the cd and digital downloads are still available. Check out:
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Also, if you have the chance, head on over to the Facebook page I have dedicated to promoting my album at:
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Please give it a like while you are there!
Once again, my very best to all of you this year and my thanks to you now and always for listening and liking my releases from "Sundown: A Gordon Lightfoot Retrospective."
Yours in great music,
Barbara J.
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About Barbara J.
Barbara J. is a Southern California singer songwriter known most notably for her two latest releases “Sundown: A Gordon Lightfoot retrospective” and “A Box Full of Records”.
Barbara spent her formative years paying the usual dues in folk groups, choirs and rock cover bands before moving to Southern California. She began writing songs but was always drawn to some of the songs that were the soundtrack of her youth. She eventually reached out to her cousin, Jim Reilley (of alt rock band The New Dylans), who was a producer and session player in Nashville. Together they began sharing back and forth songs they mutually were inspired by and one of the big common threads that emerged was a mutual love of Gordon Lightfoot. A few quick text messages compiled a list of favorites and as fast as the notion came, they began recording “Sundown: A Gordon Lightfoot Retrospective”. Reilley roped in his Nashville pals Eric Fritsch and Jake Clayton and the album was recorded in Nashville and LA in 2014. Featuring a well cultivated collection of some of Lightfoot’s best works, the album was an immediate success on independent radio. Barbara’s cover of “If You Could Read My Mind” has received great reviews and attention and several of the other tracks have had their share of time on various indie music charts including Reverbnation, Pandora and Number1music blogs.
Her second album, the more eclectic “A Box Full of Records” began life as a few follow up singles that eventually led to a full-length collection. Featuring songs from the 1970’s and 1980’s, Barbara did some soul searching and picked songs from artists as disparate as Electric Light Orchestra, The Carpenters and Poco. Reilley also helmed the production of this album and along with some of the same personnel as “Sundown,” as well as Michael Webb of Poco, the album was released in 2019 to similar indie radio success.
Barbara's third album focused on the music of the legendary brother-sister duo, The Carpenters. “Only Yesterday ~ Remembering The Carpenters,” was released in February 2021. She is currently in the studio working on an EP of more Gordon LIghtfoot covers that will serve as the sequel to her first album. "Too Late for Prayin'," the first song toward that effort, was released in late 2023
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Barbara J. offers a subdued vocal performance with rich, alto vocals reminiscent of Karen Carpenter. Her lush vocals wash over you as her gentle interpretation seeps under your skin and into your soul. With exceptionally tasteful musicianship and an intimate and gentle vocal performance, Barbara J. 's rendition of "If You Could Read My Mind" is beautiful and haunting.
-Sylvie Marie/HerSong Music Blog
In these three heavenly slabs of pop mysticism, Barbara J. shows off a masterful command of the lyrics that, to me at least, proves that she could probably take on any set of verses that you put in front of her and emerge with melodies akin to a king’s ransom.
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