Core Canon
Concrete Blonde
Johnette Napolitano had a voice like whiskey and heartache, and "Joey" was the drunk-dial ballad that launched a thousand tearful bar singalongs. Goth-adjacent, punk-adjacent, and deeply, devastatingly real.
What Genre Is Concrete Blonde?
GenreAlternative rock · Gothic rock
Short answer: alternative rock. In the bigger picture, Concrete Blonde is a core canon artist of Cigarette Mom Rock — the gritty, emotional, female-led alternative rock of the 1990s and 2000s, and the feminine counterpart to Divorced Dad Rock. Explore the full definition or the wider 90s female rock scene.
Does Johnette Napolitano Smoke?
Plenty on weed and tequila, nothing documenting a cigarette habit of her own.
Full answer, with sources, in Which Cigarette Moms Actually Smoked?
Key Albums
- Bloodletting
- Walking in London
- Mexican Moon
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“Joey”(Bloodletting, 1990)
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