Potty Mouth. photo from The Fader Slapping the riot grrrl label on us just because we happen to be women playing a type of music that happens to be reminiscent of another era in time seems like a lazy conflation. — Ally Einbinder Potty Mouth was an American pop rock band, formed in Western Massachusetts,…
Category: Women Music March 2022
Women Music March 2022 – Day 25 – Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin, From Wash D.C 1995 “earth day “photo by John Mathew Smith For $30 I played four 45-minute sets. –Shawn Colvin Shawn Colvin (b. Shawna Lee Colvin on 1/10/56,) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. While Colvin has been a solo recording artist for decades, she is best known for her 1998 Grammy Award-winning…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 24 – Alice Merton
Alice Merton at Southside Festival 2019. photo by Mr. Rossi Alice Merton (b. 9/13/93) is a German-Irish singer and songwriter. Merton achieved mainstream success with her debut single, “No Roots.” She was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother and an Irish-born father. Merton’s family moved frequently due to her father’s job as a…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 23 – Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; b. 5/5/42 – d. 4/6/98) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician and was one of country music’s best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s. Wynette was called the “First Lady of Country Music”, and her best-known…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 22 – Wendy O. Williams
Wendy O. Williams Thank you to whomever suggested Wendy O. Williams to me last year to feature this year’s in Women Music March! Wendy Orlean Williams (b. 5/28/49 – d. 4/6/98) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Webster, New York, she came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk rock…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 21 – Billy Nomates
Billy Nomates. Click on the link to take you to Stereogum’s review of her song, “Heels.” the sky is so open i could just fall all the way apart no one will notice all that hurt wrapped around your heart they tell me its spring now i am so nervous for the things that grow…
Women Music March 2022 – Day 19 – Larkin Poe (led by Sisters Megan and Rebecca Lovell)
Larkin Poe, performing at the 1st Blacksheep Festival in the castle yard / castle park of Bad Rappenau-Bonfeld (Germany) in 2014. photo by Rs-foto Music is a bridge that can connect generations across time. In recording KINDRED SPIRITS, our admiration for the artists who originally wrote and performed these songs blossomed into an even deeper…
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