Never a thread for her, but that's now corrected.
Story via MSNBC.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
She was dealt a terrible hand, but had a wonderful voice. RIP
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Blimey, RIP Phoeb
― None'll come and then a lot'll (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:26 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― None'll come and then a lot'll (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7QhKmi_fBc
― donut pitch (m coleman), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Only 58. Did not realize why she disappeared from the music scene till I read that obit above. I just remember "Poetry Man." RIP
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I knew more about her.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
^^
I constantly, constantly come across her self-titled album in shops and the cover always intrigued me, but I would always forget to research her. Should have just picked it up at some point.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
Here she is with Linda Ronstadt in 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDk_lroqZkY
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Christgau's review of an old comp always intrigued me:
The Best of Phoebe Snow [Columbia, 1981]Most New Yorkers know a woman like this: from a liberal background, with loads of artistic interests, she's insecure about her weight and hence her looks (which are OK at least) and hence her talent (which there's no questioning), and after plenty of therapy her emotions are still all over the place. Only none of her sisters can sing the postblues like Snow--neurotically, that's what she's about, but with incisive power. She's erratic, so given to bad poetry and intermittently eager to please that her albums are off-putting unless you have a weakness for the type. But this compilation--four originals, six covers, including "Shakey Ground," which she owns because it's her all over--is smart, quirky, deeply felt. It proves the type deserves more credit than it usually gets. A-
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
"It proves the type deserves more credit than it usually gets."
it's true and it doesn't exist anymore in popular music.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
One of those 70s figures I like more than I probably even know (since I'm just familiar with some of her hits).
From that same show as the clip above. Covering the Roches in 1979 (when this song was quite new)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3OCrNiZ_4
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
...Woodstock 25th anniversary festival in 1994, as part of a soul act that included Thelma Houston, Mavis Staples and CeCe Peniston.
I was not aware of this, and it's really awesome!
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
between Phoebe and Poly, a super sad day
― the wages of sin is about tree fiddy (WmC), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
What a wonderful singer who made wonderful records. Her daughter, who'd been disabled since birth, died a few years ago - Phoebe Snow got dealt a hard hand but made wonderful things with it. Sorry that she is gone.
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e27G_aLCKM
― Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 April 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
The last I remember hearing her was dueting with Dave Mason circa 1988 on the minor hit "The Dreams I Dream". I know only a few of her songs but liked them all.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HT6ibcKHbM
This is a really great tune in spite of its moments of awkward failed Joni Mitchellisms meeting sexy slow jams.
― keep clams and jive on (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 01:49 (eight years ago) link
I've gotten really into Phoebe Snow over the past couple weeks. If y'all haven't done so, I'd recommend.
"Cash In" from Second Childhood was where I locked in, and then everything else opened up for me. Wish I'd appreciated her more when she was alive.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
There's a real easiness to the feel of her music that's not "easy listening," but more like the "oh yeah, this is really comfortable" quality of Bonnie Raitt's records.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 16 September 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link