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Artist
Cathy Richardson
12+ albums
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about
Cathy Richardson rose to Chicago rock royalty in the 90's with her powerful, soulful voice leading her wildly popular namesake band, relentlessly pummeling the Midwest college and festival circuit turning in some 150 shows a year. An engagingly entertaining performer, her shows are the stuff of local legend (check out some of the videos on her website) and her catalogue of 7 self-released CDs have marked sales of over 30,000 thanks to her devoted fan base and steady rotation from great Chicago radio stations like WXRT. Over the last decade, her career has taken a few colorful turns that steered her out of the local scene and into the International spotlight, smack in the middle of the rock n’ roll history that inspired her to rock. Along the way she's continued releasing new records, picked up a Grammy Nomination, four DIY Music Awards... and a Doobie Award from High Times Magazine. Richardson's real life rock n' roll persona led to her discovery for the role of Janis Joplin in the original Off Broadway cast of the show Love, Janis where she channeled the late music legend to rave reviews in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Arizona. The San Francisco Chronicle said, "when Richardson pours her magnificent, flexible voice into one of Joplin's signature numbers... the experience is more real than any live recording ever captured." In 2007, she toured the US with Janis’ original band members Big Brother and the Holding Co. on the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Tour. He
top songs
albums
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Here Come The Irish
Delusions of Grandeur
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Here Come The Irish Of Notre Dame
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Blues Down Deep: Songs Of Janis Joplin
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The Road To Bliss
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All Blues'd Up: Songs of Janis Joplin
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Snake Camp
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The Songs of Janis Joplin - Blues Down Deep
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Here Come the Irish (of Notre Dame)
Fools on a Tandem
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House of Blues: Songs of Janis Joplin: Blues Down Deep
What I Am - Single