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Barbara Dane
Detroit, United States • 1927-05-12 – 2024-10-20
Barbara Dane is credited on 118 releases across 32 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
118
Pressings credited
32
Albums
8
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Jazz critic Leonard Feather described Dane as "Bessie Smith in stereo" in the late 1950s. Time wrote of Dane: "The voice is pure, rich ... rare as a 20-carat diamond" and quoted Louis Armstrong's exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" On the occasion of her 85th birthday, The Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her "one of the true unsung heroes of American music."
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
118 releases · 32 albums · active 1957–2024
- Performance · 150
- Other credits · 56
- Production · 21
- Engineering · 3
Studios: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles · A-1 Sound Studios · Rocket Lab · Town Hall, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Quilapayún
- Liberation Support Movement
- Bernice Reagon
- Judy Collins
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Lightning Hopkins
- Atis Indepandan
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