Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow dies (Poetry Man)

Variety ^ | 04-26-11 | AP

[blam]

"My favorite song of hers was a duet with Paul Simon; “Gone at Last”."

Enjoy

Phoebe Snow/Paul Simon, "Gone At Last"

[newfreep]

Back in the day, I saw her in concert as a warm-up act to Jackson Browne.

For any freeper interested, I have an acoustic studio demo of her doing “Let The Good Times Roll” incl studio chatter with producer/engineer. Great sound and great cover of the song. Just freepmail me with an extenal addy and I’ll send you the WAV file.

[oh8eleven]

By then my economic situation had improved to allow me an 8-track AND an FM radio.
My first new car was a '69 Chevelle - AM only and I put in a 4 track player.
I only had three or four tapes and wore them out.
Today, when I hear songs that were on those tapes, it's 1969 all over again :)

[Lazlo in PA]

Jackson Brown? Wow. I have one of his albums that I won in a radio contest in 1980. I keep it as a chuckle. He was a leftist nut.

Thanks WAEB 790 AM. I still listen because they are the right wing station for the Lehigh Valley.

[newfreep]

Jackson Browne is STILL a leftist nut.

[Verginius Rufus]

Exactly my reaction—don’t recall hearing of her before or ever hearing that song, although I listened to a lot of popular music on the radio in the 1970s. Maybe it was released after I started listening mostly to country music.

[Ax]

Back in her Manhattan days, my wife was very close to Phoebe Snow. The stayed in touch until this last January.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2011/04/phoebe_snow_dies_at_58.html
Here’s a more detailed story. A couple classic videos as well.

[Son House]

Wow! The lady could play guitar too! Glad I caught your thread, and eternal thanks to the lady for her music.

Phoebe Snow - Let The Good Times Roll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QhKmi_fBc

PHOEBE SNOW Either or Both
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tewdim5Ugek

Phoebe Snow - Poetry Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXlwpiK8SI

[Finny]

She may not have been much to look at, but she was a GREAT singer and always had FABULOUS back-up musicians on her albums. One of my favorites, on her album “It Looks Like Snow,” was My Girlish Days. She was so great ... I am sad to hear of her passing.

[Mashood]

I went to see a Rick James concert in 1973... then about 3 months later Phoebe Snow played in a small town in Arkansas. I missed that one.

[chopperman]

My thing’s been Classic Rock.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[2nd amendment mama]

Phoebe Snow (Loeb) was a friend of mine in the early 70’s in “the Village”......she had a phenomenal voice. She, Patty Smythe and Jan Seides used to babysit my son. I remember when she left NYC to move to Texas to work with Leon Russell. RIP Phoebe.

What a week....just found out that my ex-mother-in-law died Saturday.

[SamAdams76]

Oddly enough, I've been watching the first season of Saturday Night Live on Netflix and one of the first SNL shows featured an obviously pregnant Phoebe Snow as musical guest. This was back in 1975.

I googled Phoebe Snow and learned that the child she was carrying at the time would be the one with the severe brain damage. So that SNL performance was pretty much her last public appearance before her life changed forever.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Phoebe Snow RIP. She was a staple of early Saturday Night Live and I can honestly say if it wasn't for her and her contemporaries most would never have heard of the show. It sure wouldn't still be around.

Trivia: Jackson Browne was a member of Blue Oyster Cult for one week until they fired him.

[SuziQ]

Trivia: Jackson Browne was a member of Blue Oyster Cult for one week until they fired him.

Man, that IS some trivia! I never got into Blue Oyster Cult, but then I was never into the harder versions of rock. Folk rock, classic rock, etc. was more my style.

[Altura Ct.]

Phoebe Snow, Michael McDonald & The NY Rock & Soul Revue - Knock On Wood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJhMgeUkRk&feature=related

RIP

[dead]

I met her once. My friend lived in the same building as her in Fort Lee, NJ and used to baby sit the daughter. Her daughter needed total care.

Saw her live for a few songs too back around 1993, at a retrospective of Paul Simon's career at the Paramount Theater in NYC. Simon and Garfunkel came out first and did a set. Then Paul Simon came out by himself, and many of his collaborators from the course of his career came out to sing their songs with him (Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Pheobe Snow, Mighty Clouds of Joy, etc.) Then Simon and Garfunkel sang again for an hour to close the show.

Great show. She was terrific.