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Kelly Willis - Not Forgotten

Artist Song
Kelly Willis  What World Are You Living In?  
Kelly Willis  He Don't Care About Me 
Kelly Willis  Fading Fast 
Kelly Willis  Truckstop Girl 
Kelly Willis  Rex's Blues 
Kelly Willis  Take Me 
Kelly Willis  Aren't I True? 
Kelly Willis  Holdin' On 
Kelly Willis  Reason To Believe 
Kelly Willis  Drive South 
Kelly Willis  Pack Up Your Sorrows 
Kelly Willis  That's How I Got To Memphis 
Kelly Willis  Parallel Bars 
Kelly Willis  Whatever Way The Wind Blows 
Kelly Willis  Not Long For This World 
Kelly Willis  Angry All The Time 
Kelly Willis  Heaven Bound 
Kelly Willis  What I Deserve 
Kelly Willis  Heaven Bound 
Kelly Willis  I Could Be You 
Kelly Willis  I Have Not Forgotten You 
Kelly Willis  Time Has Told Me 

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A collection of rarities, b-sides, live cuts and other strangers from Kelly Willis ...
Notes on the tracks
1-3-From the "Fading Fast" EP with Son Volt
4,5-with Jay Farrar
6-live with Dwight Yoakam
7-with 16 Horsepower
8-with Pat Green
9-from "Parkinsongs of Hope" benefit
10-from "Love Gets Strange" a John Hiatt tribute
11-from "Dressed In Black" a Johnny Cash tribute
12-from the Tom T. Hall Project
13-with Robbie Fulks
14-from the "Mountain Stage Texans" album
15-from live at KGSR #4
16-from live at KGSR #7 with Bruce Robison
17-from live at KGSR #8
18-22-live at Sessions @ West 54th Street, NYC
* two versions of "Heaven Bound" were included coming from quite different performances.
Kelly Willis has recorded six albums, including her latest - Translated From Love - produced by Chuck Prophet. A review in the New York Times said of her music, "She offers painful tales of lost love but then expresses the resolve to move on. Hovering between romantic fantasy and deflated realism, Willis taps a rare subtlety of feeling."
Willis has been on tour most of last year and into 2008 in support of the new album. She had spent the previous four years writing songs with husband Bruce Robison and sister-in-law Emily Robison of the Dixie Chicks, besides raising her four children.
I have seen Willis on three occasions, both as a solo performer and in an acoustic duo setting with her husband. You might have seen them together in commercials for the product Claritin. They are both warm and accomplished musicians.
Quiz: Willis appeared as a right-wing folksinger in what movie? First correct answer wins a copy of this mix with accompanying artwork.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 4/8/2008
Hmmm, would the movie be "Bob Roberts"? Love her voice.
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mahdishain
Date: 4/8/2008
i have only a passing knowledge but i aim to correct that. thanks!
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whatwasmusic
Date: 4/8/2008
Track 13 seems to have gone missing.
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avocado rabbit
Date: 4/9/2008
Congrats to Mark Petrucelli on winning the quiz.
And track 13 is not there because the tracks were inadvertently misnumbered. I simply skipped over #13 like a building that doesn't have a 13th floor for reasons of superstition.