Wikipedia says - (October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979) The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released only two albums in 1971 and this track comes from 'Heart Food' released in 1974. Following a series of car accidents and failed surgery to rectify a painful back injury, Sill struggled with drug addiction and dropped out of the music scene, finally dying of a drug overdose, or "acute cocaine and codeine intoxication"
Both her albums are well worth checking out, they are beautiful records. "Jesus Was A Crossmaker" was her most famous song. There is also an album of songs from an unfinished third album ,demos etc. She seems to have had an interesting and rather unhappy life.
Judee Sill was a great talent sadly overlooked in her lifetime but with probably a bigger fan base in recent years. Her LPs were unavailable for years until Rhino did a limited edition re-release. The demand led to a more widely released 2CD "Abracadabra -The Asylum Years" in 2006 which compiles her two studio releases with demos and live tracks. If you like "the Kiss" I would respectfully suggest you buy it now!! @Astromonkey has mentioned "Dreams Come True"...
...which is another double and contains 8 tracks from her never released third LP plus studio and home demos, a short live video plus a 68 page book of new interviews and essays. It has really nice packaging too! Lastly there is Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973 which is self explanatory. Her life story is tragic and encompasses drug addiction, armed robbery, a spell in "Reform School" where she learnt gospel piano. Sorry to go on. Did I say I was a fan...?
Oh one last thing. I was just going to jam "the Donor" off Heart Food having been inspired by your jam however could not find a version that would play via TIMJ thanks to the copyright holder - but you can view it on youtube. If you listen to no other Judee Sill listen to the Donor. It is incredible.
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d0minic
Wikipedia says - (October 7, 1944 – November 23, 1979) The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released only two albums in 1971 and this track comes from 'Heart Food' released in 1974. Following a series of car accidents and failed surgery to rectify a painful back injury, Sill struggled with drug addiction and dropped out of the music scene, finally dying of a drug overdose, or "acute cocaine and codeine intoxication"
stuckey
Thanks for sharing @d0minic — Really nice track, I'll have to revisit Judee Still.
fearson
suuuun, sifting through the graaaay
christineb
Exquisite
glimmer9
real nice
ingridwildeman
She's great, isn't she?
simonp
Can't remember when/where I first heard this but I remember being blown away by it
Astromonkey
Both her albums are well worth checking out, they are beautiful records. "Jesus Was A Crossmaker" was her most famous song. There is also an album of songs from an unfinished third album ,demos etc. She seems to have had an interesting and rather unhappy life.
parafoxa
mmm beauty x
johannakoll
She had such a sad life. Bill Callahan's cover of her song 'For A Rainbow' is just wonderful.
rocknrollisking
Judee Sill was a great talent sadly overlooked in her lifetime but with probably a bigger fan base in recent years. Her LPs were unavailable for years until Rhino did a limited edition re-release. The demand led to a more widely released 2CD "Abracadabra -The Asylum Years" in 2006 which compiles her two studio releases with demos and live tracks. If you like "the Kiss" I would respectfully suggest you buy it now!! @Astromonkey has mentioned "Dreams Come True"...
rocknrollisking
...which is another double and contains 8 tracks from her never released third LP plus studio and home demos, a short live video plus a 68 page book of new interviews and essays. It has really nice packaging too! Lastly there is Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973 which is self explanatory. Her life story is tragic and encompasses drug addiction, armed robbery, a spell in "Reform School" where she learnt gospel piano. Sorry to go on. Did I say I was a fan...?
rocknrollisking
Oh one last thing. I was just going to jam "the Donor" off Heart Food having been inspired by your jam however could not find a version that would play via TIMJ thanks to the copyright holder - but you can view it on youtube. If you listen to no other Judee Sill listen to the Donor. It is incredible.
d0minic
@rocknrollisking thanks for all the info. I recently bought 'Heart Food' and it's been on the car stereo ever since