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Subject: Re: Judee Sill, anyone?
Date: 1999/02/04
From: absent_mare@hotmail.com
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In article <l4TCnaAC9Bu2EwnK@western-pr.demon.co.uk>,
  Paul Whitehead <western-pr@western-pr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
 Shawn Colvin has a new cd out called "Cover Girl" and one of the songs is by
Judee Sill.

absent_mare
"Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight?
Who snaps it asunder the very next night?
Some say the rider, some say the mare,
Or that love's like the smoke beyond all repair."

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