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Tanyas Together
Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton are re-united again, recording and touring. Cara Gibney fills in the years between.
B
ack in 1999, Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton were busy founding much-loved alt-folk group The Be Good Tanyas. With threads of country, blues,
bluegrass and beyond, The Tanyas quickly became renowned for their timeless har- mony vocals, musicianship, high calibre song writing, and their persistent ability to honour and adapt the material of others.
Holland left the band in 2000, at the time of The Be Good Tanyas acclaimed first album Blue Horse. The last time that she
and Samantha Parton worked together was in a studio on a live track for Holland’s 2008 album The Living And The Dead, and the time in that studio is well remembered by both women. “My favourite aspect of that recording is that we were sincerely laugh- ing,” Holland told me. “Sometimes laughing accidentally in harmony as we sang.”
Much has happened since they were in that studio together. Holland has “learned how to lead bands better, which culminat- ed in my last album Wine Dark Sea. The economy collapsed. I got the roughest
heartbreak of my life. A book deal slipped through my fingers. I moved out of NYC and back to LA.” Parton continued to work with The Be Good Tanyas until she was involved in two life-changing car accidents. “I’ve had to approach singing very con- sciously since the car accident – had to learn a bunch of new techniques in order to put less strain on my neck and jaw. I have new respect for how physical singing is.” Despite this though, or maybe because of it, she sees herself as a “better musician, overall, since then.”
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