THE WEIRD SISTERS: Judee Sill vs. Linda Perhacs vs. Vashti Bunyan. VOL.1 JUDEE SILL
Judee Sill & Linda Perhacs & Vashti Bunyan.
Pop music's most discovered best-kept secrets. Where to begin? Three ladies, twice America, once England. Two thirds are still alive. They probably did not notice each other in times of activity, but there seems to be a bond between them. ALl three of them started ~1970 with records that were packed with emotion, fantastic song, beautiful voices and all three records sank without traces. Three flower children tiptoed into the music biz, two of them tiptoed out, while one perished on the steep rocks of the coast of the land of the bad metaphor.
God only knows what Judee Sill's mistake was. She had the voice of an angel, hell, the voice of an omnibus packed with angels, she had songs that shine like the last rays of a late summer sun. She had songs that spin their golden contrapuntal threads around your head. She sang of all kinds of love, the painful, the heavenly, the erotic and with each syllable she sang, you just had to believe her. Her self-titled debut is pulsating with joy and warm blood that Brian Wilson at his sunniest seems like a reptile in comparison.
Well, maybe this was her mistake. Doesnt exactly help to quote Bach, Pythagoras and Ray Charles as your main influences.
She recorded a second album, "Heart Food", and people should found religions on the feelings this record evokes. Then she recorded a few more songs, decided to quit music to concentrate on heroin, then she broke her back in a bad accident, lived through months of pain until she decided to lope along through the cosmos and OD'd.
There are two fantastic pages on Judee, no BS, many files to listen to, and you may find it here:
A kind of memorial page on Judee Sill with lots of links and everything the beginning Sillogist desires
Another tribute by a journalist who wanted to document her life and music.
He must have had a great plan, just to find out that
Pop music's most discovered best-kept secrets. Where to begin? Three ladies, twice America, once England. Two thirds are still alive. They probably did not notice each other in times of activity, but there seems to be a bond between them. ALl three of them started ~1970 with records that were packed with emotion, fantastic song, beautiful voices and all three records sank without traces. Three flower children tiptoed into the music biz, two of them tiptoed out, while one perished on the steep rocks of the coast of the land of the bad metaphor.
God only knows what Judee Sill's mistake was. She had the voice of an angel, hell, the voice of an omnibus packed with angels, she had songs that shine like the last rays of a late summer sun. She had songs that spin their golden contrapuntal threads around your head. She sang of all kinds of love, the painful, the heavenly, the erotic and with each syllable she sang, you just had to believe her. Her self-titled debut is pulsating with joy and warm blood that Brian Wilson at his sunniest seems like a reptile in comparison.
Well, maybe this was her mistake. Doesnt exactly help to quote Bach, Pythagoras and Ray Charles as your main influences.
She recorded a second album, "Heart Food", and people should found religions on the feelings this record evokes. Then she recorded a few more songs, decided to quit music to concentrate on heroin, then she broke her back in a bad accident, lived through months of pain until she decided to lope along through the cosmos and OD'd.
There are two fantastic pages on Judee, no BS, many files to listen to, and you may find it here:
A kind of memorial page on Judee Sill with lots of links and everything the beginning Sillogist desires
Another tribute by a journalist who wanted to document her life and music.
He must have had a great plan, just to find out that
It's a life that's frustrating to learn about in many ways, characterized by many strokes of just plain stupid bad luck, with some foolish decisions and carelessness thrown in for good measure. So, I think it's probably better left undone. She wrote some amazing songs, and let's enjoy them and leave it at that.
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