Has anyone heard this? Not strictly "prog", but excellent straight-ahead songwriting and first-rate playing.
I knew of her as a superb bass player - we all did - but I had no idea she was this good a songwriter and vocalist.
And here's the sad, ironic downside: She's been playing professionally at the the highest level for the last ten years. She knows half the big artists out there - this track was recorded on her tour as support band for The Who, a gig she got by sending her music to Pete Townsend, who loved it. She's been mentored as a songwriter by Jackson Browne. She's played with Jeff Beck. And yet, she needed to crowd-fund the album she has coming out. Music this good, connections at that level, and apparently the Big Time Music Biz wouldn't take a chance because she can't be given the hard sell to ten-year-olds.
Now maybe there's more to it than that. Maybe they wouldn't sign her unless they could saddle her with a "hit-oriented" producer, someone who'd dumb-down her music and cram a disco beat onto it. Maybe they'd only do it with an aggravating and insulting "image makeover." Maybe she could only get a really bad business deal, and is savvy enough not to. But still...
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