TITLE: She's Good People
ARTIST: Juliana Luecking
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REVIEW: 45 vinyl, harray!.....This you'll notice is high on the CKUT Spoken Word Top 40. All spoken word--all hit Radio. Vital optimistic tales of queer life. Grrls on bikes, in bars, in love. Every alternative station needs a copy. 6 cuts. Sistahood and Guppie is a personal favourite. This is another stride forward from her first so fuckin' perfect 7" The Juliana Experience. (Blazin' Auralities, #2).

REVIEW: Funny and enlightening tales by Juliana Luecking put to a little music, pretty cool. (dan, 10 Things, #5)

REVIEW: Spoken word sistertalk, woman power domination. Not exclusively for Riot Grrls, J.L. is a DC human, a gem of a fem. Try some of this unmusic and listen to her talk. Humor, bitterness, weird desert adventures. Journey into the realm of tampons, love, biker chicks, frustration. Basically, fascinating. This is volume five of KRS's spoken word Wordcore series of 7". (Scrape).

REVIEW: Side A has three spoken word poem/stories. Sistahood and Guppie is a story full of open spaces and sharp, clean imagery of midnight motorbike rides, girlfriends and the Arizona desert with engines rumbling in the background accentuating the storyline. Trust Stevie is about a great party in North Carolina where the hostess took everyone's watch and changed the time, punctuated with a clarinet's cool lilt. Perfect Lesbian Bar is a conversational description of exactly what the ideal would be - like if you wanted to open a bar and have everything be just the way you wanted it. (Snipehunt, #16)

REVIEW: Volume five of Kill Rock Stars' wordcore series is a sweet combination of opinion and anecdotes, highlighted with a melange of noises ranging from typewriters to clarinets, basses to motorcycles. Juliana's subjects are women and their issues. Two women go for a ride together, they play doctor, Juliana expresses thoughts on what to say to a girlfriend who's just had breast implants, or muses over the perfect lesbian bar. Though involved in the riot grrrl movement, here she does not reveal an angry or aggressive tone, just that of a woman who has to speak her piece. To her favor, she does this in such an intriguing way you could find yourself playing these pieces over and over. (Dawn Sutte, CMJ New Music Report, June 7, 1993)

REVIEW: On six intimate stories of sisterhood and womanity, Juliana Luecking takes you into her big heart and good-naturedly tossles you around. With clarinet and bass adding rhythm and ambience, Luecking commpelling characterizes subjects including a stuck tampon, a shared umbrella, and a really good party.

Luecking's sensitive insight and calm demeanor illuminate the secret lives of women vividly. A major shared theme is the foolish social divisions that separate women from each other. Printing little revelations like these on milk cartons would be a public service. (Ian Christe, Alternative Press).

REVIEW: Juliana Luecking used to dance around our living room composing silly songs with my old roommate Kim. Somehow, this unlikely late night activity led to one of the funniest short lesbian films I've ever seen, The Great Dykes of Holland, which featured them in Dutch-girl getups romping through the streets of San Francisco during its annual Folsom Street leather fair. But I never realized how much of a Renaissance woman Luecking whas until I stumbled across her EP, She's Good People, partially recorded at the Washingon, D.C. Riot Grrl Convention in August, 1992. I'm hesitant to call She's Good People strictly spoken word, since that conjures up images of bad Beat poets for most people. But this seven-inch, part of the Wordcore series on Kill Rock Stars, emphasizes Luecking's own particular loony lesbian world.

Accentuated by sparce guitar picking or the ding of an electric typewriter, She's Good People tells six different distinct stories which range from helping a straight girl remove a stuck tampon on Playing Doctor, to designing the Perfect Lesbian Bar complete with exotic dancers dressed like UPS deliverywomen, theme rooms and shadowy places where lesbians can "discover new pivotal turning points in their lives with each other in the dark." (Rachel Pepper, Girlfriends).