Born in the Bronx, New York, Friedman spent her formative years in the San … Read Full Bio ↴Born in the Bronx, New York, Friedman spent her formative years in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles. She started playing guitar at the age of eight while listening to Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Josh White. Her first song gained her a spot on the television talent show Rocket to Stardom at age twelve. While at Ulysses S. Grant High School, she started playing Hoot nights at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, met the musicians Steve Mann and Hoyt Axton and became part of the growing musical scene of Los Angeles.
Her first paid performance was at the Green Spider Coffee House in Denver, Colorado at the age of nineteen. Soon she was part of the Hippy Migration, traveling the California Coast and living off earnings from her performances. While staying in San Francisco, California, Friedman befriended the members of Jefferson Airplane. Her friendship with Van Dyke Parks not only influenced her deep commitment to music but also introduced her to The Association, who recorded her song Windy in 1967, which became one of the most performed and played songs of the 20th century (number 64).
Three years later, Constant Companion, her first solo album, was released by A&M Records. She also wrote and sang the songs for the cult movie Peace Killers, released in 1971.
In 2006, Water, a San Francisco label, reissued Constant Companion, renewing interest in Friedman's music and led to Water's release of a compilation of rare, previously unreleased and home recordings from 1965-1971, Hurried Life.
Her first paid performance was at the Green Spider Coffee House in Denver, Colorado at the age of nineteen. Soon she was part of the Hippy Migration, traveling the California Coast and living off earnings from her performances. While staying in San Francisco, California, Friedman befriended the members of Jefferson Airplane. Her friendship with Van Dyke Parks not only influenced her deep commitment to music but also introduced her to The Association, who recorded her song Windy in 1967, which became one of the most performed and played songs of the 20th century (number 64).
Three years later, Constant Companion, her first solo album, was released by A&M Records. She also wrote and sang the songs for the cult movie Peace Killers, released in 1971.
In 2006, Water, a San Francisco label, reissued Constant Companion, renewing interest in Friedman's music and led to Water's release of a compilation of rare, previously unreleased and home recordings from 1965-1971, Hurried Life.
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Andrew Barrett
This is phenomenal.
No disrespect but this doesn't sound like it's from the 1960s/70s even though it is.
Instead, it sounds to me completely of the NOW... up to date and timeless.
I can understand why these recordings were maybe not so successful in their day if they were actually commercially issued... they were 30+ years AHEAD OF THEIR TIME and probably a lot of people really didn't know what to make of them.
When I listen to her music (now, much of it I'm hearing for the first time ever) I get much of the same eerie and uncanny feeling I get when I listen to, for example, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, and/or Charles Ives... i. e. listening to a masterful artist who is manifestly NOT OF THEIR TIME but creating FUTURE MUSIC that pushes everything forward.
Not just music, but everything.
MyMetal1992
saludos desde argentina :)