Thursday, November 02, 2023

The Deadly Nightshade – The Deadly Nightshade (1975)


The Deadly Nightshade is a New England–based rock and country trio consisting of members Anne Bowen, Pamela Brandt, and Helen Hooke, who originally began performing under the name Ariel in 1967, along with Gretchen Pfeifer and Beverly Rodgers. It was one of the earliest all-women rock bands signed to a major label, and an early women's music group. Some early members of the group originally performed as the Moppets.

In 1970, Ariel separated. Bowen then reunited with former bandmates Brandt and Hooke in 1972, to play at a women's festival, now as the Deadly Nightshade. In 1974, the band secured one of the first record contracts as an all-female band to a major label, Phantom/RCA, and went on to release two albums to mixed reviews. They performed at Ms. Magazine's second annual party in 1974. During the height of their success in the mid-seventies, The Deadly Nightshade appeared on Sesame Street, singing its version of the Carter Family hit "Keep on the Sunny Side", as well as several of the band's own songs.

The band broke up in 1977, when Bowen decided to leave the band to pursue other interests. Brandt went on to work as a feminist writer, co-author of The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America with Lindsy Van Gelder (Simon & Schuster, 1996). Her work included commentary on the band and its relation to the women's movement and the music business.[2] In 1978 the Smithsonian Institution reissued both albums as examples of creative women in music. Archival material relating to the band can be found at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

 01. The Deadly Nightshade - High Flying Woman 
 02. The Deadly Nightshade - Nose Job 
 03. The Deadly Nightshade - Something Blue 
 04. The Deadly Nightshade - Losin' At Love 
 05. The Deadly Nightshade - Dance, Mr. Big, Dance 
 06. The Deadly Nightshade - Keep On The Sunnyside 
 07. The Deadly Nightshade - Sweet, Sweet Music 
 08. The Deadly Nightshade - Shuffle 
 09. The Deadly Nightshade - I Sent My Soul To The Laundromat 
 10. The Deadly Nightshade - Someone Down In Nashville 
 11. The Deadly Nightshade - Blue Mountain Hornpipe 
 12. The Deadly Nightshade - Onions 


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