Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (Warner Brothers)

Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976

"THERE’S A song of Kate McGarrigle’s, which Maria Muldaur sang on her first LP, called ‘Work Song’, which is about all the old songs that ...

Kate McGarrigle (1982)

Interview by John Hutchinson, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1982

Kate McGarrigle talks about touring versus home life; about where she and sister Anna grew up and where each lives now; about their singing and the presentation of their songs; about using traditional instruments but not performing traditional material; about their relationship to the French language and their religious background; about being managed by sister Jane; their latest album Love Over and Over and the song ‘I Cried For Us’... and about not being overly concerned about their career. and not being overly concerned about their career. and not being ambitious or concerned about their career.

File format: mp3; file size: 23.6mb, interview length: 24' 37" sound quality: **½

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros. Import BS 2862)

Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 7 February 1976

Sisters of mercy ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros.)

Review by Susin Shapiro, The Village Voice, 16 February 1976

Kate and Anna Carry Through ...

Joe Boyd: An Interview

Interview by Penny Valentine, Street Life, 21 February 1976

Penny Valentine talks to the man in between, Joe Boyd who has recently produced Toots Hibbert, Maria Muldaur, and the McGarrigles. ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Sisters In Song

Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 10 April 1976

UNTIL DEMAND forced them to issue that classic Maria Muldaur album two years ago Warner Bros. had always shown a marked reluctance to promote its ...

Women in Love

Profile and Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 17 April 1976

Like Dylan, the Band and Randy Newman, the songs of Kate and Anna McGarrigle recall America in its pioneer days. With a fine debut album ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Victoria Palace, London

Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 26 July 1976

BY THE manner in which they presented their London debut last night, one imagines that Kate and Anna McGarrigle spent much of their childhood around ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Victoria Palace, London

Live Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976

And yet more folksiness as Kate & Anna McGarrigle BLITZ OVER LONDON ...

Kate And Anna McGarrigle: Kiss Me Till My Mouth Gets Numb

Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 31 July 1976

The harrowing tale of two sisters who narrowly missed getting typecast as nuns when their real thing is foolin’ around in bathrooms... Seriously though, we ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Write on sisters

Interview by Dave Laing, Sounds, 31 July 1976

DAVE LAING meets Kate and Anna McGarrigle, who write and sing songs of rare beauty ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Dancer With Bruised Knees (Warner Bros.)

Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 12 February 1977

THE DIFFICULTIES of following an album not simply outstanding but universally acclaimed as such are only too apparent. Even a demonstrably first-class work could not ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Victoria Palace, London

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 26 February 1977

Incomparigle McGarrigles ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Kate and Anna Face the Music

Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977

IT WAS once my considerable misfortune to own a part-time job, forced on me by financial hardship, that required knocking on people's doors inviting them ...

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Dancer With Bruises

Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 9 April 1977

THERE ARE three sisters altogether. Jane, the eldest, who sometimes plays organ on her sisters' records, lives a happily married life in California, and the ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Dancer with Bruised Knees (Warner Bros. BS 3014)

Review by Ariel Swartley, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

North-woods soul sisters ...

Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Love Over and Over (Polydor) ***½

Review by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 17 March 1983

WHILE THEIR most compelling virtue is their lovely vocal interplay, Kate and Anna McGarrigle have always been careful to use classy session players. As a ...

The McGarrigle Sisters: File Under…?

Profile and Interview by Mal Peachey, Daily Telegraph, 10 November 1990

Mal Peachey meets the multi-cultural and indefinable McGarrigle sisters. ...

The Stubborn McGarrigles' Folk Music Keeps On Shining

Retrospective and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, 23 February 1997

LIFE IS SHORT with few guarantees. But here's one – Kate and Anna McGarrigle will always make wonderful folk music. If only they weren't so ...

Kate McGarrigle: obituary

Obituary by Tony Russell, The Guardian, 19 January 2010

Folk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making family ...

Kate McGarrigle remembered

Comment by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 20 January 2010

THERE ARE TWO words that have always epitomised the voice of Kate McGarrigle for me – they came in a Rolling Stone review that followed ...

Kate McGarrigle: Acclaimed musician left her mark

Obituary by Nicholas Jennings, The Globe and Mail, 20 January 2010

FOLK SINGER KATE McGarrigle left a deep musical legacy both in recordings with her older sister Anna McGarrigle and in her two children, singer-songwriters Rufus ...