Robin Flower & Libby McLaren

Robin Bloom and Libby McLaren have already been breaking ground using their book fusion of Irish, Cajun, bluegrass, and American swing, to create progressive bluegrass. Within their tracks, they yearn for reference to kindred spirits in different forms: she-wolves, faraway females, grandmothers, conscientious interveners in cycles of mistreatment, courageous interveners in bigger politics dramas, and passionate lovers. Flower’s profession started with auspicious laudatory evaluations from The Town Tone of voice, Frets, and Billboard. Before Blossom, McLaren had used her wealthy keyboards, clear tone of voice, and hearing for instrumental interplay to saving, set up, and accompaniment for peers as the Roches, Ronnie Gilbert, and Holly Near. Teaming with flatpicker Nancy Vogl, Blossom released her 1st album, A LOT MORE THAN Close friends (Spaniel, 1979). In 1982 arrived Green Tennis shoes (Flying Seafood), then Initial Dibs (Soaring Fish, 1984, granted Best String Music group Jazz by NAIRD) and Infants With Eyeglasses (Flying Seafood, 1987, awarded Greatest Women’s Music Recording by NAIRD). In the the past due ’80s, Blossom teamed with similarly committed and qualified musician Libby McLaren, whose pop look at softened Flower’s advanced, technical approach. Blossom and McLaren discovered that these were both extremely concentrated, intention upon hard practice and unquestioning about the necessity to collectively arrange and assign instrumental and vocal parts. These were so concentrated and intention that they break up from Nancy Vogl, with whom that they had in the beginning believed they might play like a trio. Many talented Bay Region women musicians possess followed them, including: fiddler-vocalist Crystal Reeves, harpist Michelle Sell, and guitarist-singer Teresa Chandler. For the 1st few years, by the end from the ’80s, Blossom and McLaren performed folk (though these were frequently labeled too intensifying or too electrical for folk purists), general mainstream, and women’s music for diverse viewers. Robin Blossom and Libby McLaren’s debut documenting, Angel of Switch, premiered on Little Kitty Information (2468 Hearst Avenue, Oakland, CA 94602).