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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

1975

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Biography

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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