Musicians whose mothers were songwriters

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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

budo jeru, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link

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


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