Saturday, March 04, 2006

Blackgirls - Broken Leg - 1990
from the Mammoth Records cd "Frequency - A Mammoth Sampler of North Carolina Sounds"

Blackgirls, including Eugenia Lee (guitar/vocals), Dana Kletter (piano/vocals), and Hollis Brown (violin/vocals), are a folk-pop band from North Carolina. Their two albums, released on the independent North Carolina label Mammoth Records, were produced by Joe Boyd, the head of Hannibal Records and a noted producer of such folk-rock performers as Fairport Convention.

Band Members:
Eugenia Lee - Guitar, Vocals
Dana Kletter - Piano, Vocals
Hollis Brown - Violin, Vocals

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Actually, Lee Johnson/Eugenia Lee was the one responsible for Eat My Shit.

Dana went on to form Dish with Sara Bell (Angels of Epistemology, later Shark Quest), Jerry Kee (Duck-Kee Studios) and Bo Taylor (8 or 9 Feet/Motorolla/caster), who put out one great album on Interscope. A few years later she formed a band with her sister Karen & put out a gorgeous CD on Ryko.

Lee Johnson, on the other hand, formed a metal band called Detura in Raleigh in the early 90s, and then I lost track of her, although all three members of Blackgirls participated in a reunion show at the Bickett Gallery in Raleigh a couple of years ago.

As of a few years ago, Hollis Brown was still playing electric violin with the prog band Ozone Quartet, which she started (under the original name Cloud Nine) back in '92 or so.