JUDEE SILL
Good morning people on this fine Saturday morning, the sky is blue, the sin is shining and I'm feeling good. Off on my travels to France again soon and hoping to catch up with people here before I go.
Strange
what you find on BBC 4 these days. Here’s a lady I’d almost forgotten about.
What a sad story. She was the first artist to be signed by the asylum label. At
15 she was running wild with an armed robber, she became addicted to heroin and
then, at reform school, learns to play the organ. Despite her talent and quite
beautiful voice, success eluded her and she sank into depression. In 1979 she
sadly died of a drug overdose. She neither looks nor sounds the way you would
expect from a lady with that history She's American but her voice reminds me of some of the English traditional singers.
