A Bit More about Kate McGarrigle

If you are not familiar with the music of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, then you may have heard their music through the many artists who have covered their songs, including Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris, Maria Muldaur, and others. You might have heard the children of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III: Rufus and Martha, who now have amazing careers of their own.

I have long loved the music from the many McGarrigle sisters' albums, which they sang and played with uncompromising honesty. Flying under the radar of pop, they went to the true roots of eclectic folk music that is shared around a piano among friends and family, or gathered with front porch guitar and banjo strums and plucks with lots of hearty singing. Whether reviving Stephen Foster or creating their own haunting melodies, they gave us a music that everyone can play, sing, hum, share, listen, and clap along to without needing much technology. Kate will be sorely missed, but the music always lives on.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle
http://www.mcgarrigles.com/

Rufus Wainwright
http://www.rufuswainwright.com/news/default.aspx?nid=24300

Martha Wainwright
http://www.marthawainwright.com/

VIDEOS OF THEIR SONGS

Talk to Me of Mendocino (written by Kate)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcBEGjK3cM
duet with Rufus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKqsQIIAr68

Lullaby for a Doll (written by Kate)
with Martha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQ5nbdIyaA

La Vie En Rose
duet with Martha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVg9XSmpDOk

Heart Like a Wheel (Anna wrote this song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Enc8KEzdYY

Gentle Annie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbIjfLYxOY
with Linda Ronstadt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnv1EoKs-F8

Hard Times
with Rufus, Emmylou Harris, and Mary Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YrfLnlrquo

My Mother Is the Ocean Sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iWZtnJxUeY

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