Martha Wainwright / Kate McGarrigle
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
(If we want to open it up to “musicians who had a parent who was a songwriter, but not known as a performer”, and allow dads we could haveBill Charlap/Moose Charlap, but I like this direction you are taking)
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:02 (four years ago) link
recorded 927 songs, wrote about 3, but Marcia Hines / Deni Hines
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 12 July 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
Kesha/Pebe Sebert
(A notable one especially for the fact that Kesha’s discography is peppered with credits from her mom, and on some of the really noteworthy hits as well)
― You can’t see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Friday, 12 July 2019 06:24 (four years ago) link
Prince Rogers Nelson / John Lewis Nelson
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 12 July 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
god I am an idiot, ignore me
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 12 July 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
Harry Nilsson's mother, Bette, wrote songs, at least two of which he later covered/adapted.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Friday, 12 July 2019 06:48 (four years ago) link
Chynna Phillips of Wilson Phillips, daughter of Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas (co-writer of California Dreamin', among others).
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 12 July 2019 10:33 (four years ago) link
Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion ‘s Mother was a rapper
Her mother, Holly Thomas, rapped under the name Holly-Wood and would bring her daughter with her to recording sessions, instead of putting Pete in daycare.Wikipedia
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 July 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
peggy seeger/ruth crawford seeger
(her kids knew her as "Dio"!)
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Friday, 12 July 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
It still sounds weird to me when I hear people talk about the rap music that their parents played at home.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 12 July 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
Maya Rudolph/Minnie Riperton
Laura Nyro and Aretha Franklin both had sons who rap
Laura - Gil-TAretha - Kecalf Cunningham
― Josefa, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
Aretha had another son named Teddy Richards who played guitar in her band
― Josefa, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Helen Merrill, the jazz singer, has a few composer credits; her son Alan Merrill wrote "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" among other songs
― Brad C., Friday, 12 July 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Céline Dion's mom wrote her first song, "Ce n'était qu'un rêve".
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
“Musicians whose mothers invented Liquid Paper”
― Sam Weller, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Great work all around, thanks, particularly this last.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
Kinda amazed at that Merrill one!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Violeta Parra's two children Isabel and Angel were both folk musicians.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Not sure if Norma Waterson ever wrote any songs but Lal Waterson did and her son and daughter are musicians.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Friday, 12 July 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Linda Thompson. Teddy and Kamila, two of her children with Richard, are both musicians.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
Carole King / Louise Goffin
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Sean Lennon
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Agnetha Fältskog (who was a songwriter too) / Linda UlvaeusBjörk / Sindri Eldon
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Thompson and Goffin have been swimming just below the surface of the Solaris ocean of my aging brain. Sean Lennon I deliberately held back for some reason and was waiting to see how long it would take for someone else to post.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
Mention of Teddy Thompson reminds me that his friend Rufus Wainwright should be here with his sister and mother.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
June Carter Cash (but NOT Roseanne Cash, oddly enough)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
Rosie Nix Adams
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
was gonna say Carnie Wilson but I don't think Marilyn Rovell ever actually wrote anything
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
Peggy and Patsy Lynn
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
I don't think Roseanne Cash's kids do music either, but iirc one of them manages/handles affairs for father Rodney Crowell.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
took too long for Wainwright to get mentioned! also: Sean Lennon.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
Ravi Coltrane
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
*oof*
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
tim and jeff buckleyeagle eye + neneh and don cherryhank williams and offspring
doesn’t fit but i was recently surprised to learn that the louvin brothers were the cousins of john d. loudermilk
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
also r. stevie moore is the son of bob moore, prolific and revered session bassist who occasionally wrote tunes and is STILL ALIVE at 86
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
And their mothers?
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Lucy Wainwright Roche / Suzzy Roche
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
(If we want to open it up to “musicians who had a parent who was a songwriter, but not known as a performer”, and allow dads
^ i read this and just went with it, but if we don’t want to do that we don’t have to and you can disregard my posts
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
xp
Feel like the thread has worked out really well the original constraints so prefer not to expand at this point but thanks for contributing, no harm no foul.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 13 July 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
The year 1976 marked a turning point for (Samantha Bea) Benjamin. She and Ibrahim returned to South Africa to live; she gave birth to her daughter, Tsidi (now the underground hip-hop artist Jean Grae); and recorded African Songbird, an album of original compositions, for South Africa's Gallo Records. Shortly after Tsidi's birth, the family relocated to New York city in 1977, to the famed Hotel Chelsea. Some originals on other albums too.
Also on Wiki and YouTube:Molly Drake (born Mary Lloyd, 5 November 1915 – 4 June 1993) was a Welsh poet and musician, best known as the mother of the musician Nick Drake. Molly Drake never released any official publications of her poetry or compositions in her lifetime, but she had a profound impact on the musical style of her son. As Nick Drake's music gained a larger following after his death, Molly Drake's recordings have been released, which uncover the musical similarities between her and her son.
― dow, Saturday, 13 July 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
african songbird is a fantastic fucking album
i should probably get around to listening to jean grae, i'm just old
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 July 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
oh, also, karen mantler's mom is carla bley
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 July 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
Now I’m curious. Will listen.xp
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
durn it, I switched Nick's sister's and mother's names in my mind
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
Anne Murray's daughter, Canadian singer/songwriter Dawn Langstroth, is the daughter of Canadian singer/songwriter Anne Murray.
― del griffith, Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
Carla Bley/ Karen Mantler, doh!
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 July 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
Ben Taylor, son of Carly Simon.
― henry s, Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
I sort of posited his existence but did not set up my experiment properly to achieve a positive result.
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
From my blog-archived 2013 Nashville Scene ballot & comments:(brushing by: Avalon, daughter of Annette Peacock, & The Loups (from now- vanished Soundcloud vantage): "A loup is a waterfall which a salmon has to leap on its way upstream." Then there's the spooky loup-garou. Both might apply to "Desert Air," which begins right after the sun finally dissolves, the air begins to cool, Avalon's rich trill multiplies and courses down and up the mountain. "We changed the oil in your mind, left the city far behind." So, country in that sense, her and drummer Joe Love (re maybe Speck Mountain, Nina Nastasia & Jim White? A fast Mazzy Star, if that's even possible? For a remake of Zabriskie Point ? Anyway, I wanna hear more (someday, someway).
― dow, Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Oops time to tweak those paren marks.
― dow, Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link