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March 18, 2005

Martha Joins Family Biz

Singer-songwriter Wainwright readies debut album

Love Over and Over

While their most compelling virtue is their lovely vocal interplay, Kate and Anna McGarrigle have always been careful to use classy session players. As a result, it sometimes seems as if the sisters are making the point that their mix of church music, ballads and north-of-the-border jug-band fare is...

1983 RS: 4of 5 Stars

French Record

1980

Dancer with Bruised Knees

1977

Kate & Anna McGarrigle

1976

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Specializing in tart, tuneful songs that marry the resonance of folk to the emotional immediacy of everyday life, the McGarrigle sisters are probably the finest singer/songwriter team ever to go ignored by the American public. Well, not entirely ignored; Anna's "Heart Like a Wheel" is certainly well known to Linda Ronstadt fans, as is Kate's "(Talk to Me of) Mendocino." But Kate & Anna McGarrigle<...

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