She may have chosen non-hierarchic, non-gender specific lower case for her
name, but there is nothing modest about her talent. Whether you prefer the
raw, raunchy, Cline-haunted country singer of her early Canadian days, the
more sophisticated Nashville collaborations with Owen Bradley, the knowing
pop chanteuse who emerged with the Ingenue album, or the soul and funk
grooves of All You Can Eat (especially live), she remains a performer to
cherish. And despite her rather solemn interview manner, on stage she turns
her between-song sequences into a stand-up act, toying with the audience
like an old trouper.
Born: Consort, Albert, 1962.
Kenny Mathieson
