A folk singer who started young, she wrote 'Society's Child' at 15 and 'At Seventeen' a decade later.
If you want to hear what she does, start with 'At Seventeen' and 'Society's Child.' They frame her approach pretty clearly.
She was writing about interracial romance in 'Society's Child' when that was still a charged subject in the mid-60s. A decade later, 'At Seventeen' gave a voice to teenage loneliness in a way that felt real, not sentimental. Songs like 'Stars' and 'Watercolors' kept that direct, personal tone across her catalog.
She wrote her first album at 15 in New York, listening to folk singers like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. The 1975 album 'Between the Lines' brought 'At Seventeen,' and she's released more than twenty albums since, sometimes working with other musicians.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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