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To Phoebe Snow

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After 9/11 they didn’t allow concerts downtown for a few weeks. WFUV had a free one and I can’t believe I can’t remember the venue or most of the performers. But there was Phoebe Snow in her first performance in years. I remember every second of her performance; I watched the glasses on the table to see if they would break k or sing though I knew they weren’t crystal

Here’s an article from Peoples archives. When Phoebe was young, pregnant and didn’t know that a doctor would smother her baby who would be severely brain damaged. Valerie was only supposed to live a few years but Phoebe gave up her career to care for her.

Phoebe was from Jersey and here’s an article that has several of her songs

I truly believe that the world is a slightly sadder place today. Though she had a brain hemorrhage in January, 2010 and never really recovered. Maybe it’s a better thing.
I apologize for my writing. Really feel sad right now. Phoebe Snow was two days older than I am and….I always thought her beyond talented.

Comments

  1. cooper says

    Oh wow that really sucks. I only know her from ” Gone at Last” but I had heard of the child. She will be missed for sure.

  2. Sparrow (Pixie) says

    I grew up with her (on 8 tracks in my mom’s car). LOVED her… remember seeing her only once… I believe it was on Phil Donahue but I loved her curly hair, her roman nose and her smooth as scotch voice… I think I was 10.

    Today, I got an alert on my phone… I told the girls, “Oh no!!! Phoebe Snow died!”

    I didn’t tear up until they all chimed, “who?”

    🙁

    LOVED her. <3

  4. Doug says

    I used to listen to my Phoebe Snow tape on my walkman, riding my bike past fields in Iowa on my way to work. She was completely unlike anyone else I liked to listen to, but her voice made her music work for me. I was really sorry to hear she was gone as well.