Barb featured in Time Out New York's best of the year 2010 with Best Cabaret CD of the Year - Barb Jungr, The Men I Love (Naim)
Barb Jungr may be the definitive performer of one of the great musical icons of the twentieth century, Bob Dylan. In 2005 the BBC hosted a Barbican concert to celebrate his work. In introducing Jungr, Billy Bragg described her as “possibly our best interpreter of Dylan’s songs”. He is not alone in this view, as Jungr has been wowing audiences and critics worldwide with her astonishingly powerful reinterpretations of this great songwriter’s work.
Following a critically acclaimed tour of the UK, where she resides, Barb returns to the US to celebrate Dylan’s songs and to promote her latest Linn Record's release 'The Man In The Long Black Coat', featuring 13 Dylan songs that she has recorded over the last 8 years.
In the UK and New York Jungr plays to packed houses and was recently heralded in a feature about her work in the New York Times. Known for her passionate singing, minimal and subtle arrangements and great humor, and accompanied by the best pianists in New York and the UK, Jungr has been hailed in the UK as being “tantalizingly close to mass attention”.
“Of all the new takes on Dylan, none is more essential than Jungr’s.”
New York Sun (New York)
“The Manchester born and London-based chanteuse is one of the best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan anywhere on this angst ridden planet today. Always beautifully sung and profoundly acted. Even the patter is pithy.” -- The Village Voice (New York)
“I just hope Dylan himself has a listen and starts writing for her direct ”-- Observer (London)
“Communicating real, heart-felt emotion is what she’s about .” -- The Telegraph (London)