Kate McGarrigle remembered

The Canadian folk singer and Wainwright family matriarch, who died this week, maintained a 40-year career with songs rooted in the most intimate worldsThere are two words that have always epitomised the voice of Kate McGarrigle for me — they came in a Rolling Stone review that followed the release of her first album with her sister Anna: "Not since Carole King's Tapestry has the female voice been recorded with such unblemished intimacy," it read. After hearing of McGarrigle's death this w...

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