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Readers recommend playlist: songs about road trips

2205 days ago
Guardian MusicA reader takes a trip through your suggestions, with Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul McCartney and the McGarrigle sisters making the listHere is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week.... more info

Thomas Cohen's playlist: Laura Nyro, Kate & Anna McGarrigle and more

2939 days ago
Guardian MusicThe singer-songwriter chooses some of his favourite German jazz, 70s folk music and French soundtrack cutsI found out about Judee Sill through the Radio 4 show The Lost Genius of Judee Sill, and instantly fell in love with her music and her world. Th... more info

Listen to Metronomy's Hypnose

4273 days ago
Guardian MusicYou can't out-synth Jean Michel Jarre. So Metronomy don't try on this cover for Late Night Tales For their forthcoming Late Night Tales compilation, Metronomy assembled a typically eclectic selection of their favourite songs and artists, from Autechr... more info

My favourite album: Moon Pix by Cat Power

4584 days ago
Guardian MusicOur writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Sean Michaels recalls stumbling over a melancholy masterpiece in the depths of the Canadian winterIn 2001, I was 19 and melancholy. It was winter in Montreal, my first year away from home, my firs... more info

Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Tell My Sister

4642 days ago
Song, by Toad I absolutely love demos.  You should know this by now of course, not least because I have spent the last year endlessly rattling on about music, even if it wasn’t a demo in the first place, has been brutally re-engineered to make damn sure it so... more info

The Kate McGarrigle I knew, by British singer-songwriter Linda Thompson

4884 days ago
Guardian MusicLinda Thompson recalls the extraordinary musical talent and wit of her friend, the Canadian musician Kate McGarrigle, who died of cancer on 18 January, aged 63.Must buy a McDonald's franchise… that was my initial thought on hearing Kate and Anna Mc... more info

Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy on their first mother-and-daughter album

5040 days ago
Guardian MusicNorma Waterson and Eliza Carthy are part of British folk music royalty, and as they release their first album as a mother-and-daughter duo, they talk to Jude RogersIt's a Saturday morning in Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, and the sun shines thr... more info

Great dynasties of the world: The Wainwrights

5074 days ago
Guardian MusicA clan who channel their dysfunction into songThere has perhaps been no family in the history of popular music more vocal about its glorious dysfunction than the Wainwright/McGarrigles. Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, th... more info

Transatlantic Sessions | Folk review

5189 days ago
Guardian MusicRoyal Festival Hall, LondonThere have now been four ­successful television series of ­Transatlantic ­Sessions, filmed in ­Scotland and bringing ­together Celtic and American musicians. The project has resulted in a series of CDs and DV... more info

Kate McGarrigle obituary

5210 days ago
Guardian MusicFolk singer and songwriter at the heart of an innovative music-making familyKate McGarrigle, who has died aged 63, was a luminous singer and songwriter whose partnership with her sister Anna produced some of the most attractive and memorable music to... more info

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