As the women’s rock movement continues, some might say the Jewels and the Sarah MacLaughlins are becoming harder and harder to tell apart.

But Iowa music fans, particularly those of female singers, need not look far for something different.

Enter former Iowa State student Callie Cardamon.

Her debut CD on Primavera Records (which she runs along with her producer/co-songwriter/husband Eric Rawson) is titled “Time & The Weather,” and it truly is something different. It’s jazz, but then again… it’s not.

“I don’t really rock,” Cardamon said from her office in Los Angeles. “My friends say I roll more than I rock.”

That gives you a good idea of which direction she’s coming from on her CD, which is a collection of 10 songs — each with a different flavor, but distinctive sound.

This sound is made possible by Cardamon’s excellent back-up band, lead by bassist Alphonso Johnson, who has worked with artists such as the rock group Santana and jazz legend Lee Ritenour.

After spending the last 12 years writing and composing folk music and playing them in coffee houses around Iowa, Cardamon finally began to be courted by major record labels (Sony & MCA among them).

Since she didn’t like the way the labels wanted to control her music and her style (“They wanted me to sound like Madonna,” she laughs), Cardamon, an Iowa City resident, and her husband decided to take control and start their own label.

The result: Primavera Records, which also has plans to release work by members of Cardamon’s back-up band.

Cardamon said her influences run from Tony Bennet (who she tried to style “Time & The Weather” after), Barbara Streisand and her father, who passed away before the CD was completed, and who the album is dedicated to.

“He had a great singing voice,” Cardamon said.

“We actually wanted to send a copy of [the title track] to Tony’s people,” she added, relating how much the song sounded like his music.

Cardamon’s style is very classic, but is known to bring swing into the mix, particularly on “Spanish Wine.”

“Sometimes I Need a Mother,” the fourth track on the disc, has already been getting airplay on jazz and blues stations, as well as other AAA format stations across the country.

However, little of her music has been heard around Iowa, which she felt was odd, considering her upbringing in Des Moines.

Cardamon said her future plans include releasing a CD of jazz covers, as well as touring.