More info on Therese Edell:

 

Below, larger look at the album's first cover

below, the second version back cover

Interview from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Interview from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Interview from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Interview from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Interview from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Review from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

Review from Paid My Dues, Spring 1978

From 1978-1980 when I lived in Norfolk I worked on the staff of Our Own Community Press, including a stint as editor. The paper was published by the Unitarian Universalist Gay Community, the UUGC, which did everything involving gay/lesbian activism in the city at that time. They sponsored a conference in July of 1980 and Therese and Betsy were the musical guests. The following very interesting interview with Therese was published in that month's issue, followed by an album review, and I included (since it was on the same page) a piece on the Michigan Women's Music Festival.

Below, Music Femina (Kristan Aspen and Janna MacAuslan) commisioned Therese to compose
"38: 3 Sections: 8 Yrs," which appeared on their 1989 album "Returning The Muse To Music"

Therese Edell Songlist
LOU'S SONG
WINTER OF SEVENTY-SIX
TAKE BACK THE GUNS
EMMA     (1975)
NEVER LEAVE YOUR LOVER AGAIN
MAMA LET YOUR CHILDREN GO
GRANDMOTHER SONG
JENNIFER: LEAH'S SONG
MOONFLOWER
PHOENIX
THE GIG SONG
THE LONGEST NIGHT     (1986)
SISTER HEATHENSPINSTER'S CALENDAR DAYS (1980)
GOOD FRIENDS ARE THE BEST     (1982)
FRIEND IN PHOENIX
GODDESS AND GURU
A WOMAN'S LOVE
IF YOU CAME HERE ALONE    (1983)
TEXAS TEXAS     (1982)
HEART OF MINE     (1989)
KATIE'S SONG     (1981)
GATHER IN     (1987)
IT'S A BLUE MOON     (1989)
O MY FRIENDS     (1990)
38: 3 SECTIONS: 8 YRS     (1988)
ROSA     (1988)
CONVERSATION     (1989)

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written by ANNIE DINERMAN
written with NATALIE WAUGH
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Notes:
FWF = appears on original version of "From Women's Faces"
FWF+ = appears on "From Women's Faces, Plus" (1999)
FT = appears on "For Therese" (Various Artists, 1990)
HW = appears on a Hot Wire Magazine soundsheet
all songs written by Therese Edell unless noted in far column

Plus, Muse - Cincinnati Women's Choir included "Take Back the Guns" on their 1998 CD "Sing to the Universe Who We Are" and the Atlanta Feminist Women's Chorus included "Emma" on their 1998 CD "Many Strong and Beautiful Women." Also, Holly Near coupled the song "Emma" with Margie Adam's song "Having Been Touched" on her "Simply Love" album in 2000. If you know of additions to this list of artists covering Therese's songs, please let me know.

Muse     Atlanta Feminist Women's Chorus (no CD pic available)     Holly Near's "Simply Love"

Therese has no doubt written many more songs/compositions than these, but these are the ones I know of that have been recorded. She did have an earlier album from 1970, when she was 20, called "Prophecy's Child" that had a very limited distribution, and I do not know that it was at all released commercially. Again, if you know of other recorded songs by her let me know so I can add them to this page.

Below, the wonderful Hot Wire magazine included soundsheets with most issues

these songs were not released by her anywhere else

(pass cursor over it to see another soundsheet)

two Hot Wire soundsheets with songs by Therese

For more info on Hot Wire, see bottom of the Casse Culver bonus page