Jean Ritchie, wikipedia commons image, no date listed Jean Ruth Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player, called by some the “Mother of Folk”. In her youth she learned hundreds of folk songs in the traditional way (orally, from her family and community), many…
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Women Music March 2022 – Day 6 – Joan Baez
Joan Baez in NYC in 2016, photo taken by Jim Gilbert Social justice is the true core of my life, looming larger than music. –Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez (born 1/9/41) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. She is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture…
TSM 201 — Return Forever
Existentials traversed to nethers’ wilds. Necessary lies, now I Return wise, a willing sacrifice to the excised, still rhythmed heart’s scene of invisible keening-rent-divine of the crime — your forever silent judgment: guilty. Today’s poem is in Waltmarie form, described as: 10 line poem, any subject, even numbered lines are 2 syllables and form their…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 5 – Judy Collins
Judy Collins, 2008, photo by Bryan Ledgard Judith Marjorie Collins (5/1/39) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. She is a Grammy Award-winning artist known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 4 – Lzzy Hale of Halestorm
Lzzy in 2019, image by Sven Mandel Elizabeth Mae “Lzzy” Hale (born 10/10/83) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of hard rock band Halestorm, which she co-founded with her brother Arejay Hale in 1997. The siblings have been actively writing and performing original…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 3 – Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless
Taylor Momsen live on Warped Tour kickoff, 2010 music is where I can be me –Taylor Momsen Taylor Michel Momsen (born July 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, model, and former actress. Momsen has been the front woman of the American rock band The Pretty Reckless since their inception in 2009. In March 2009,…
The Brit Box, Disc 2, Track 3, “Only Shallow,” by My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine My Bloody Valentine are an Irish-English rock band formed in Dublin in 1983. Since 1987, its lineup has consisted of founding members Kevin Shields [who was born in Queens, NY but moved to Dublin at age 6] (vocals, guitar, sampler) and Colm Ó Cíosóig (drums, sampler) with Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar) and…
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