Revisiting Linda Brady: Where the Hell Are You?!

Published: January 24, 2008, 2:00 pm

Tags: music

Brandon is always trying to get me to listen to vagina music, and the occasional Dar Williams song will strike my fancy, much to my own chagrin. But, in actuality, I'm not theoretically opposed to vagina music as much as you think.In the mid-1990s I saw a singer/songwriter named Linda Brady open for my favorite musician of all time, John Wesley Harding. Accompanied only by her acoustic guitar, she had a lovely voice, and her songs were alternately biting, sweet, bitter, and hopeful. She had girl power when she wanted to, but could just as easily collapse like a wounded bird. And those songs were damn catchy.Her 1993 self-titled debut album is indeed one of my all-time favorites. Alas, she never released another album, and she sort of disappeared off the face of the earth. You all know how adept I am at stalking people online, but, seriously, I cannot find out anything about what happened to Linda Brady. Did she leave the country? Retire? Get sucked into an alternate dimension?Her

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