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Subject: Re: Judee Sill, anyone?
Date: 1999/02/03
From: "Michael" <Wolkind@ftech.co.uk>
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I certainly remember and liked Jesus Was A Crossmaker, but beyond that....

Paul Whitehead <western-pr@western-pr.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<l4TCnaAC9Bu2EwnK@western-pr.demon.co.uk>...
> I raised the subject of Judee Sill a year or so ago.  She produced two
> fine albums (early 70s-ish) then disappeared.  Someone emailed me last
> year to say he had found out that she died of a heroin overdose. 
> 
> Some musicians - including warren zevon, or whatever his name is, have
> done covers of her songs, such as 'Jesus Was a Crossmaker'.
> 
> She hasn't got a web site, she seems highly neglected.
> 
> She was a North American who wrote her own sensitive, and at times
> seductive, songs:
> 
> 
> 'Promise me, this and only this,
> holy breath touching me'
> 
> 
> are a couple of lines that come to mind. 
> 
> She wrote a song called The Kiss. 
> 
> 'Sweet communion
> of a kiss'
> 
> Good voice, too
> 
> Ah!
> 
> Anyone here heard of her?
> 
> Paul
> -- 
> Paul Whitehead
>