Whatever happened to mary margaret o'hara ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9rZyMRdwwg

Wonder if anyone's heard anything other than this from that Go Deo Chorus demo tape that got them/her signed...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/apr/19/cult-heroes-mary-margaret-ohara-miss-america

I don't consider those tributes to Weill and Cohen, nor The Black Rider productions, to be "relative trifles." And if she thinks she said it all on one album, so be it, right or wrong. Wonder how many people keep cranking it out when they secretly feel that way, or should?

WOW I had no idea the album was recorded in 83 and 84!

Author should have mentioned her track on Gary Lucas Gods and Monsters, v memorable

For some reason I heard this for the first time tonight - loved it. Lots of bits hanging at the edges throughout - whether that's a guitar, violin and the voice but there is so much to her voice I wouldn't reduce to that.

My t-TAAAALE is TALLLLLL

i never contributed to this thread. why? mmoh is one of my favourite singers, miss america one of my favourite albums. i wrote something about it some time ago in my old blog.

how i love those simple, to the point lyrics:

"But if our love is all for not
I'm still happy with what I've got
Not having you,
But keeping you in mind"

For some reason I heard this for the first time tonight

― xyzzzz__, Monday, June 13, 2016 9:23 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm gobsmacked at this!

https://vimeo.com/147145241

i just found a copy of Miss America on LP for a couple bucks stashed in the celtic music section at amoeba. incredible album.

I was just thinking about MMOH last night because we finished watching The OA and I got some of the same feelings from it that I get from this album.

my TAAAAALE is TAAAAAALLLLLL

I'd forgotten about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtuYmYg8OU

I didn't know this happened!

wow...this first improv is something else

Very very stoked. Just bought two tix to see her in June!

ohhhh!!!!

It's the "Beautiful Tool" combo who performed a handful of shows three years ago and I don't think anything since.

??Where is this happening??

Canada. At the Vancouver Jazz Festival. Tix were $28. A bargain imo.

Here's a baffled review from (I think) the last show in 2015.

Haha I just noticed she did "The Snake" - that thing that Trump performs from time to time.

Man so jealous

Show was good. A few reservations but I enjoyed it a lot. It didn't blow minds or anything. It was unrehearsed and the band could've used more direction. The starts and ends of the songs were all ramshackle, much of it was improvised and they overplayed on most songs imo. There was one bit near the end when they did a great key change and I thought "fucksake-an arrangement!"

She herself forgot the words on dozens of occasions and barely two lines in a row were ever sung straight. It was like Liza Minnelli slipping back and forth between Ella-style focused scatting and Yoko Ono making whatever noises she's feeling in the moment. Followed by some whistling or whatever. Pretty amazing.

If I'd wandered in not knowing what it was I might have been racking my brains for what Shimmy Disc act might have reformed - the only previous time I saw a balloon used as a musical instrument was at a Eugene Chadbourne gig.

She's on Bandcamp:

https://peggylee1.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-tool

Oh wow thanks!

New one-minute ditty

This inimitable bit of O'Haratude popped up unexpectedly in my Release Radar today

https://rising.melbourne/wormhole/singles-club-jim-white-and-mary-margaret-ohara