Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Judy Henske
Judy Henske/High Flying Bird
(Elektra, reissued 2001)
Hip-hearted folk singer’s short-lived solo career from 1963/’64.
In the hilarious original sleeve note to Judy Henske’s High Flying Bird, writer/scenester Shel Silverstein lists the conditions under which he would marry her and return to Henske’s native Wisconsin. “She would have to agree to stop crying into her Chivas and starting fights with other folk singers” goes a long list of ‘corrections’. The truth was, the six-foot beatnik with the voice of a blues-belter, the face of a movie star and with bawdy sense of humour to boot, was never going to find her niche in Chippewa Falls in the early ‘60s. Nor, it seemed was Hollywood entirely ready for her. Elektra’s Jack Holzman knew he’d found something special, though, and she was bundled from coffee house to studio to record these two albums of traditional folk and blues (often with wryly re-written lyrics), pop, gospel and cabaret-ready originals with names like Oh, You Engineer. That such a wilfully eccentric and (whisper it) funny female artist proved too strong for public tastes in the ‘60s isn’t that surprising. What’s sad is that she probably would be today, too.
Jenny Bulley
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 03/03/2008
Further Listening
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran (Radioactive)
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms (Wild Places)
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America (Virgin)
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