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Welcome to my songbook, and thank you for being here.  Enjoy what I present here now, and please come back in the near future.

I am Izzabella -- or IZ, as I've always been known in the playgrounds and school halls of my youth -- and I'm a singer-songwriter of new traditional country music.

I live on the Occoquan river in the Tidewater country of Virginia, USA.  The headwaters of the Occoquan are found in the nearby Appalachian Mountains, and much of the Occoquan valley is now a suburb of Washington DC.  Northern Virginia (the phrase once wedded to Lee's army of that name) is an epicenter of the ongoing social and economic re-invention of America in this century.  The greater Washington DC sprawlopolis is home to one of the world's most varied populations -- and all their music traditions.  Some of these traditions are deeply rooted in this part of the country, while others are more recent arrivals to its musical landscape.  I lift my hat to Walt Whitman and make them all mine.

Latin American music -- the different fusions from each South and Central American country of the Iberian, African, and Indigenous -- are all here in the many Latino communities, and my music carries their influence.  Beyond the Tidewater's suburbs there is a -- often still distinctly Black and White -- amalgam of newly-evolving ex-urban society, and of deeply-rooted agricultural society, all also aswhirl with separate strains of secular and religious music traditions.  And, Occoquan is just down the road from the Great Smokey Mountains where, within living memory, there persisted a ballad tradition anchored in the music Colonial era settlers brought with them from the British Isles.  So, I see Occoquan as an interchange where many traditions merge into the freeway of my music.  Mine is a song sensibility at once open to global and urban influences, yet firmly rooted in the music traditions of the rural, American South.  I am an American, new traditional, country singer.

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This Living on the Road is One True Story

Global Girl

  

10 Commandments of Love

Blonde at the Wheel

  

Hello Gallo

Light in the Night Torchsingers Burn

  

The Virginian

Down to My Last Standard

  

Southland State of Mind

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All my songs are original work, and I, and my now-and-again lyricist (Shenandoah Slim -- shenadoahslim.com), own all recording and performing rights, which are duly reserved.  My songs are published by izzabellamusic.com.  Little by little, as I am able to produce recordings of my songs, I will be placing new links, as I might arrange flowers, in the songbaskets above.

I regularly perform at venues in and around Occoquan, including Coffee House of Historic Occoquan.  If you happen to be in the area, you are cordially invited to join me there for my next performance on Saturday July 17, 2010 at around eight o'clock PM.

My sincere thanks to you.  Like every artist, I'm much obliged to you for whatever time, attention and patronage you may give my work.  To those so gracious as to have bought a download copy of one of my songs, may listening to my music please you as much as creating my music pleases me.  Thank you.

Big Love to all lovers of every kind of music, and all the best to you in all your adventures in the melody-and-poetry of song-singing art, whether of others or your own. Yours Very Truly, Izzabella

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words and music to all songs duly copyrighted and recording and performance rights to all songs duly reserved -- Isabella Owen Perelman -- izzasongs.com & izzabellamusic.com

izzasongs.com is one of the IZ Group of artist companies -- izzasongs.com, izzabellamusic.com, shenendoahslim.com, willowen. com & willow-n.com

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