Jamie Anderson, born in 1957 in Yuma, Arizona, is an out lesbian who has been a constant presence in women’s music since the 1980s. During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, she performed at open mikes, fundraisers and bars in Phoenix and Tucson. She was also a part of comedy troupe Slique and the Sliquettes, led by Slique Callahan. In 1987, she did her first national tour alongside Martie van der Voort. She toured full time throughout the 1990s and 2000s in the US and Canada, mostly as a solo performer.

In 1987, she released her first recording, Heart Resort, in cassette format. Her first professional studio album, Closer to Home, was released in 1989. Her thirteenth album, Songs from Home, was written amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and released in August 2020. With the exception of a few compilation recordings produced by other labels, all of Jamie’s albums have been produced by her own label, Tsunami Recordings. Tsunami Recordings was started in 1989 by Susan (Dakota) Snedaker and Jamie Anderson, and in 1997 Jamie took sole ownership of the company.

In 1993, Anderson performed at the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she performed in many women’s musical festivals, such as the National Women’s Music Festival, the East Coast Lesbian Festival, and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, as well as pride events, coffeehouses and at universities.

Anderson’s music combines folk, country, rock, and jazz. She plays guitar, ukulele and mandolin in concert and on her albums. She also plays banjo, tenor guitar, dulcimer and hand percussion.

As an author, Anderson has published articles and reviews for various publications, including Acoustic Guitar, AfterEllen.com, Curve, Indie-Music.com, SingOut!, and Sinister Wisdom. Her memoir Drive All Night (Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2014) was a GCLS Goldie Awards Lesbian Anthology/Collection finalist. In 2019, Anderson published her second book, An Army of Lovers: Women's Music of the Seventies and Eighties (Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2019), this publication was also a GCLS Goldie finalist. The book Drive All Day: Because I'm Too Old to Drive All Night (Tsunami Publishing, 2022) documents Anderson's life on the road.