Indigo Girls, image from The Times Free Press Just an FYI, I am suspending The Second British Music Invasion Series until Women’s Music March is over. It will be re-commencing on Tuesday, April 5. Thank you for your patience. Now on to the Incredible Indigo Girls! Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo…
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dVerse — Quadrille 147 (2) — Is that you, Mo-Dean?
At first it seemed to be a dream; a blinding eye coiffed in black. My first thought: they’re back. Stalked peer of metallic goon is more than holo in my sleep as a scream begins to creep up the back of my paralyzed throat. This is my second offering for Bjorn’s prompt word for dVerse…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 7 – Jean Ritchie
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…
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…
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