image link They are falling all around me, the strongest leaves of my tree.Every paper brings the news that the teachers of my soundare moving on.Death comes and rests so heavy, your face I’ll never see no more….But you’re not really going to leave me…It is your path I walkIt is your song I singIt…
Category: Women Music March 2024
Women Music March 2024 – Day 16 – The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters, photo by Chris Foster/Shutterstock(link takes you to Rolling Stone’s article about when they hit the country charts) Please click on each sister’s name link to take you to The Pointer Sister’s website for a full bio Ruth Pointer (b. 3/14/1946)Anita Pointer (b. 1/23/1948 — 12/31/2022)Bonnie Pointer (b. 7/11/1950 – d. 6/8/2020)June Pointer…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 15 – Bessie Smith (written by Featured Guest Writer, Max Gower)
Before getting into the actual post, I want to thank Max at PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture: An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture for so graciously agreeing to be a guest writer today. Max was at liberty to choose any Woman Musician to write about and he chose the exceptionally talented singer, Bessie…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 14 – Iris DeMent
Iris Dement performing at Old Settler’s Music Festival in Driftwood, Texas (2007). Photo by Ron Baker. If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out. ~ Iris DeMent Iris Luella DeMent (b. 1/5/61) is…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 13 – Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight Love is what makes the world go around. I know it’s a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire…
Women Music March 2024 – Day 12 – Dusty Springfield
image from fanpop. Click on the link to take you to a whole gallery of Dusty Springfield photos! A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it … I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m…
Women Music March 2024 — Day 11 — Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen From my early childhood, before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my soul, even to the present time when I am more than seventy years old. In this vision, my soul, as God would have it, rises up high into the vault of…
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