Ladyslipper Tenth Anniversary
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Ladyslipper Tenth Anniversary Resource Guide apes by Women T 1986 About Ladyslipper Ladyslipper is a North Carolina non-profit, tax- 1982 brought the first release on the Ladys exempt organization which has been involved lipper label: Marie Rhines/Tartans & Sagebrush, in many facets of women's music since 1976. originally released on the Biscuit City label. In Our basic purpose has consistently been to 1984 we produced our first album, Kay Gard heighten public awareness of the achievements ner/A Rainbow Path. In 1985 we released the of women artists and musicians and to expand first new wave/techno-pop women's music al the scope and availability of musical and liter bum, Sue Fink/Big Promise; put the new age ary recordings by women. album Beth York/Transformations onto vinyl; and released another new age instrumental al One of the unique aspects of our work has bum, Debbie Tier/Firelight Our purpose as a been the annual publication of the world's most label is to further new musical and artistic direc comprehensive Catalog and Resource Guide of tions for women artists. Records and Tapes by Women—the one you now hold in your hands. This grows yearly as Our name comes from an exquisite flower the number of recordings by women continues which is one of the few wild orchids native to to develop in geometric proportions. This anno North America and is currently an endangered tated catalog has given thousands of people in species. formation about and access to recordings by an expansive variety of female musicians, writers, Donations are tax-deductible, and we do need comics, and composers. Many public and univer the help of friends to continue to grow. We also sity libraries have added large portions of the are seeking loans of at least $2000 for at least catalog to their collections; in this manner, the a year; if you have some extra money and would recordings are accessible to much larger popu like to invest it in a worthy endeavor, please write lations, and archived at the same time. for more information. We are part ot the WILD (Women's Indepen As a tax-exempt organization we are also eligi dent Label Distributors) network, and promote ble for grants. If you are a grant-writer and can and distribute recordings by women on indepen help us out, please write! dent labels in NC, SC, VA, DC, MD, DE, eastern PA, southern NJ, FL and GA. We also distribute many of these recordings to women's and alter If you would like us to send any of your native bookstores nationally and international friends, relatives or colleagues a free copy of this ly. Additionally, we handle sub-distribution catalog, please send us their names and address (distribution to distributors) of several women's es; stamps appreciated. labels and recordings to the WILD network. • Among these are Women's Wax Works (Alix Dob At this writing, our full-time staff includes Flo kin), Urana (Kay Gardner, Casse Culver, Alive!), Hollis, Kathy Rudy, Laurie Fuchs, Liz Snow, Reg Even Keel (Kay Gardner), Biscuit City (Rosy's Bar gae P.J. Dodson, and Sue Brown. Our part-time & Grill), Mary Records (Mary Lou Williams), staff includes Andromeda ("Meda") Connor and WhysCrack (Kate Clinton), Freedom's Music (Deb Justine Kilkenny, and Denise Notzon on a con bie Fier), Wild Patience (Judy Reagan), Coyote sultation basis. We'd like to thank Mary Lee (Connie Kaldor), Mother of Pearl (Heather Bishop) Farmer for her consultation work over the past Halcyon (Marian McPartland), T & R (Toshi Rea few years, and Jeannette Ford for her volunteer gon), West Virginia Woman (Karen Mackay), and work this past summer. others. In most of these cases, all of the records at each pressing are shipped from the pressing And we'd like to thank all of you who have plant to be warehoused at and shipped from supported us over the past decade — who have Ladyslipper, and in some cases Ladyslipper han made it possible for us to be around long enough dles the manufacturing arrangements. to celebrate our tenth anniversary in 1986. tour support has come by way of orders, loans, gifts, Write us if you are interested in booking any labor, and words of encouragement. With your of these artists for a performance and we'll point continued support, we'll be around for the com you in the right direction. ing decade as well! We hope you enjoy reading this catalog, listening to the recordings you pur Closer to home, we are involved in concerts chase, and celebrating with us the continuation and cultural events in the Triangle Area featur of a rich and diverse women's culture. ing women artists. Often we produce the events; other times our role involves consulting, book We dedicate this catalog to all of you, and es ing, or publicity in coalition with other commu pecially to our friend Susan Graetz (1950-1985), nity groups. and to her giving spirit which lives on. 2 LADYSLIPPER CATALOG Table of Contents Shopping as Therapy 4 10 Ways to Help Us Celebrate Our Tenth Anniversary. 4 Women's Music * Feminist Music 5 Children's . 58 Exclusive Interview with Sue Fink 17 Spoken 63 Comedy • • - • 18 Compact Discs 67 New Age 19 Videos 67 Classical ' • • 26 Songbooks 68 Punk * New Wave • New Music 28 Books 68 Rock 30 Calendars 68 Girl Groups 33 Cards 69 Reggae • Calypso 34 Shirts 69 Soul • R & B • Disco........... ..... 35 Resources 70 Gospel 36 Ladyslipper Mailing List 71 Jazz .--••• 37 Ordering Information 71 Blues 41 National Women's Mailing List 72 Country ...... 43 Order Blank 73 Folk • Traditional 44 Where to Buy Women's Music Locally 74 International: African 52 Order Blank 75 Asian '• 53 Crossword Puzzle 76 Middle Eastern 54 Gift Orders • Gift Certificates..'..' 77 European 54 Babyslipper Contest 78 Latin American • New Song 54 Artist Index 78 Native American ... 57 Jewish 57 Credits How Listings are Organized Coordinator: Laurie Fuchs Research: Laurie Fuchs, Sue Brown Recordings are organized into categories and then Annotations: Laurie Fuchs, Sue Brown, Kathy Rudy, alphabetically by first name. We do this because as loanne Abel women, our first names have been more truly our own, Layout and Cover Design: Laurie Fuchs . since our last names were generally transferred from Typesetting: Southern Types, Liberated Types male power figures or property owners (fathers, hus j) 1985 Ladyslipper, Inc. bands, slave owners, immigration officers). For your All rights reserved. No portion of this catalog may convenience, we are including an artist index, alpha be reproduced in any form without written per betical by last name. mission. Front Cover Art Some artists have listings in more than one category. We don't have space to cross-reference them all, so "Paphiopedalum II" is a watercolor painting of please be sure to check the index, in addition to read a Ladyslipper orchid by Gina Covina. Gina co-edited ing through the entire catalog at least once! The Lesbian Reader, Amazon Quarterly, and The New Lesbians and authored The Ouija Book and The City- of Hermits She graciously donated the use of her work for our cover. Help Us Help You All women's organizations need the continued support of women. If you find this catalog informative and interesting, and would like to help insure that we can keep on keepin' on, please make at least one order with us this year. Our selection is quite huge... more than something for everyone, we have many things for anyone! And you just won't find a good proportion of these titles anywhere else. If everyone reading and enjoying this catalog would make one order per year, our continued survival would be guaranteed. Help make our tenth year a strong start into our second decade. Thanks! LADYSLIPPER CATALOG 3 Shopping as Therapy or My Favorite Things to Mail-Order (lb the tune of My Favorite Things) Concept and some lyrics by Abby Smith Additional lyrics by Laurie Fuchs Thousands of albums by women musicians, Go on a spree, you'll feel daring, courageous, Writers and comics and women technicians, Maybe a new Sue Fink tape — so outrageous! My Ladyslipper Catalog arrived here today, Stay 'way from friendships, they're liable to flop. I'll sit right down and mail-order away. Pick up your pencil and sit down and shop! Bright-colored songbooks and new women's notecards, Friendships take time, you need patience, a large heart. Kay Gardner albums, herstorical postcards, Shopping's a snap, you can phone with your charge card. Records and tapes you can play through the night, Pick out some records by women who sing — Purchasing endlessly makes me feel right. Stay home and listen to all your new things. Why deal with troubles when you can be shopping? Watching the news makes me restless — it's boring! Millions of items to buy — so get hopping! I'd rather gather more discs that need storing. Wouldn't that video fit in just right — As for relationships, I've had my fill — Here, buy a c.d. — buy two — they're so light! Purchasing albums will not make you ill! (bridge) Reaganomics, bombs and star wars Losing lovers, losing friendships Tend to make me sad. Tends to make me pine. But then I go shopping, and buy myself things, So what if shopping will leave me in debt, And then I don't feel so bad. Surrounded with things — I'm fine! 10 WAYS TO HELP US CELEBRATE OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY! • YOU MAY CHOOSE ONE WITH EACH ORDER. •INDICATE "ANNIVERSARY BONUS # " ON ORDER BLANK.