Judith Owen

Welsh-born singer-songwriter Judith Owen's "Happy This Way" is the follow-up to her highly acclaimed album "Here". That CD led to her discovery by NBC's "Today" show, which featured a live performance of the title track. The New York Times, Stephen Holden writes, "Owen has the kind of wailing folk-jazz voice that slices away surfaces to touch vulnerable emotional nerve endings and leave you quivering. Her naturally jazzy fluency coincides with melodic songwriting style that at time suggests Burt Bacharach." On "Happy This Way", Owen brings to bear her singular sense of humor as well as raw emotionalism to create an homage to her native Britain that is at once poignant and funny.