Patty Larkin
(b. June 19 1951, Des Moines, Iowa) [1] is a Boston-based singer-songwriter.
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Biography
Patty grew up in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a musically-oriented family of Irish-American origin. At the age of seven, Patty began learning classical piano. In high school she began teaching herself guitar and writing songs. She began performing during college, in coffeehouses in Oregon and San Francisco. During the 1980s she moved to
Boston, Massachusetts, playing music on the streets of Cambridge and training in jazz guitar at
Berklee College of Music. Her recording career began during this time.
[2]
Her
songwriting has been praised for its wit, and her technical guitar playing has also received praise (which she made light fun of in her feminist song,
Not Bad for a Broad
).
In 1990, she joined
Christine Lavin,
Megon McDonough, and
Sally Fingerett to form the
Four Bitchin' Babes
, with whom she toured and recorded one album.
In 2005, Larkin produced
La Guitara
, a
compilation of songs performed by female
guitarists designed to answer the question, "Why are there no great female guitar players?" with the answer being that "There are–and here they are."
Discography
Date
| Title
| Label
| Charted
| Country
| Catalog Number
|
Album
|
1985
| Step into the Light
| Philo Records
| -
| -
| 1103
|
1987
| I'm Fine
| -
| -
| 1115
|
1990
| Live in the Square
| -
| -
| 1136
|
1991
| Tango
| High Street Records
| -
| -
| 10312
|
1993
| Angels Running
| -
| -
| 10318
|
1995
| Strangers World
| -
| -
| 10335
|
1997
| Perishable Fruit
| -
| -
| 10354
|
1999
| à Gogo: Live on Tour
| Vanguard Records
| -
| -
| 79547
|
2000
| Regrooving the Dream
| -
| -
| 79552
|
2003
| Red=Luck
| 38 Billboard Top Independent Albums
| US
| 79727
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2008
| Watch the Sky
| -
| -
| 79851
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Collaborations
|
1991
| ''Buy Me Bring Me Take Me: Don't Mess My Hair
| !'' (with Four Bitchin' Babes)
| Philo Records
| -
| -
| 1141
|
2005
| La Guitara: Gender Bending Strings
| Vanguard Records
| -
| -
| 79796
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References
- Henkle, Doug, "FolkLib Index"
- Larkin, Patty, "Biography on the artist's website"