Azeem [EMAIL PROTECTED] >NP: Jane Siberry - Haint it Funny (from a fantastic collection >of Siberry rarities for which I can hardly thank Catherine enough - >but here goes again, Catherine!) Which reminds me, I've just heard that Jane will be having a 'Meet and Greet' in London today (Sunday 24th) from 4 until 5:30pm at the Bar Chocolate at 27 D'Arblay Street, W1 (between Poland Street and Berrick Street. Nearest tube Oxford Circus or Tottenham Court Road. Don't think she'll be playing - it's just a meet and chat session. Not sure whether I can go myself yet. Hoping to see Kate Rusby tonight at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, so might try and pop in beforehand. As jmdlers also on the Judee Sill list (Steve & Philip, at least) will know, Jane has just recorded a version of Judee's song 'The Kiss' for the new album by a group called 'Ghostland' and was due to be playing a set with them in London this month but it was cancelled for some reason. I wrote to Jane asking her about her recording of the Judee Sill song - here's her reply: > I had heard about her long ago. People who loved her REALLY > loved her. When I sang the song, I sang it for her. I knew she'd > had a hard time sending out her music and someone saw her > later working in the Warner Bros. library. When I got home that > night I looked her up on the internet and found she had died. > That really shook me up. She was alive when I was singing it. > Whatever that means. Judee, who it's thought died in 1979, made only two albums - both amazing - some may know of her from Shawn Colvin's version of 'There's a Rugged Road' on 'Cover Girl' - Graham Nash also produced her song 'Jesus was a Crossmaker' on her first album. Whilst, it appears, her life was a tragedy, her music (and lyrics) were sublime (IMO). Recently someone in the UK launched a website about her http://www.lesk.demon.co.uk/pages/jsill/jsill.htm and contributors have included producer Gus Dudgeon (Elton John, David Bowie, David Crosby and many others) who first saw her supporting Carole King at The Troubadour in LA - see http://www.lesk.demon.co.uk/pages/jsill/gus.htm - they are still trying to track down Judee's publisher - "Gus thinks that his name was Michael and he was with April Blackwood Music, or Blimp Music in 1971" - to fill some gaps in her life story. Any ideas or memories about Judee would be welcome. PaulC
