Music Career
The Evangenitals, co-founded in 2003 with jazz/gospel/opera singer Lisa Dee, have received considerable media attention in the LA Weekly, Music Connection Magazine, and other publications & radio stations for their singular brand of "hillbilly truckstop lullabies." They are considered a unique presence in the neo-folk/freak-folk movement. As stated on the Orphan Records website, "Though not entirely unclassifiable, the Evangenitals are versatile and multi-layered, and will likely carry a 'slash' in their genre classification for as long as they exist as a band of Southern Californian country bumpkins."
The band's first album - We Are The Evangenitals - received rave reviews from fans, selling out of its first printing and receiving a 5 star rating on iTunes. The Evangenitals' second album Everlovin was recorded in South Pasadena at Del Boca Vista studios in January 2007 and released in October 2007.
In the fall of 2007 The Evangenitals went on the "Road to Oprah" tour with a documentary film crew from The 1 Second Film. The Evangenitals are composing songs for the The 1 Second Film's "making of" documentary that will accompany its lengthy credits. The Evangenitals will also be appearing in the documentary. So as to appear more media friendly during this time, The Evangenitals went under the moniker The Love Punks.
Writer Colum McCann spoke in an interview of Juli Crockett and the music of the Evangenitals saying, "For pure craziness, there are lots of other bands, including one that I can't write to but I've become a big fan; they're called the Evangenitals. They're from Los Angeles. One of the front singers is a former boxer-slash-philosopher. She's a fantastic singer. Her name is Juli Crockett."
In addition to fronting The Evangenitals, Crockett also performs with Cash'd Out, a Johnny Cash tribute band, singing the June Carter parts in their stage show. Crockett and Lisa Dee also perform outside of the band under the name Evangina.
In October 2012 Crockett composed and recorded the Caine's Arcade Theme Song for director Nirvan Mullick's short film Caine's Arcade which was released on the Internet and went viral, receiving over five million views in one week and national press coverage in the New York Times, CNN, the front page of Yahoo, the New Yorker Magazine and others. All of the proceeds from sales of Crockett's song are donated to the Caine's Arcade Foundation.
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