Kathleen Yearwood
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Kathleen Yearwood is a Canadian experimental singer-songwriter.
From Subterranean Records description of Kathleen Yearwood:
- This powerful and very radical Canadian artist and her music have been described variously as a "folk banshee," "Joan Baez meets Diamanda Galás," and "when angels and demons collide," among many other superlatives, but the descriptions tend to fall flat before the real thing.[1]
In an 1993 interview with the Calgary, Alberta newspaper VOX, Yearwood notes that "what I have for sale are songs about spirit in a culture that denies anything spiritual."[1] She believes that her life and her art have been shaped by familial abuse, poverty, sexism, battering, and the corruption and materialism of the Canadian society in which she grew up.[2]
Yearwood has contributed for many years to the Prison justice movement in Canada. She has also performed throughout Canada and in Europe, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival (1998) and the Under the Volcano Festival in 2003[2].
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[edit] Discography
- Great Songs to Empty Rooms
- Ordeal
- Dog Logic (2000) CD, Subterranean Records
- Little Misery Birds (1995) CD
- Book of Hate CD (1994)
- Universal Incest EP -, Coloured Vinyl (1992?)
- Dead Branches Make a Noise
