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Hometown: Austin, TX, USA

Influences: Bob Dylan, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin

Website: http://www.janapochop.com

Our Story:

Jana Pochop (yes, the "h" is silent) was born on a cold, November day in South Dakota and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This may explain why Jana gravitates toward furnaces, coffee houses, tube amps, and other warm things. After picking up the guitar at age 12 and putting it down only for a brief period of learning how to drive, now she is a performing singer-songwriter in Austin, Texas who has set out to prove that a history degree does not mean certain professional death if she turns it into useful songwriting fodder.  Jana finds inspiration huddled in front of a stereo listening to Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Kathleen Edwards, Rosanne Cash, Bob Dylan, the Dixie Chicks, and Shawn Colvin amongst others. She is often found by small bodies of water (duck ponds, sinks, rain puddles) scribbling in her notebook in the hopes that no one she is writing about recognizes themselves, because she is loathe to give up any future royalties.  Jana's been changing her strings a lot this year between shows at the GoGirls South by Southwest Showcase, The Austin Woman's Film, Music, and Literary Festival, residencies at various Austin venues, and a spring tour of New Mexico with CMA Songwriter of the Year Susan Gibson.  She resides on iPod play lists from Australia to California to Ireland, and rumor has it that some of her lyrics are even attached to a fridge somewhere in the Midwest, though this report has not been confirmed.

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