Lou Killen
Louisa "Lou" Jo Killen (born Louis Killen; 10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013) was an English folk singer from Gateshead, Tyneside, who also played the English concertina.[1]
Killen formed one of
Killen emigrated to the United States in 1967 and worked with Pete Seeger before joining The Clancy Brothers. In 1971, the Clancy Brothers brought in the singer who had introduced the English concertina to the music mix, Lou Killen. They recorded two studio albums on the Audio Fidelity label: Save the Land and Show Me the Way. Their next, and final, album for Audio Fidelity was a live album, Live on St. Patrick's Day in 1973, recorded the previous year at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, Connecticut. In the mid 1970s Killen left the Clancys.
In the 1990s, Killen worked as the volunteer coordinator at the
A few years before Killen's death, she underwent a gender reassignment to become Louisa Jo.[6][7][8]
Killen died in 2013, at the age of 79.
Discography
- Bright Shining Morning Front Hall FH 006 (1975)
- Old Songs, Old Friends Front Hall FH 012 (1978)
- Steady as She Goes Collector 1928
- The Iron Muse Topic Records 12T86 (1963); TSCD465(1993)
- Sea Chanteys ESP-Disk' ESP 1085 (1968; 1994)
- Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside Topic Records 12T122 (1965; 1997)
- Ballads and Broadsides Topic Records 12T126 (1965; 2009)
- Gallant Lads Are We Smithsonian Records 1932 (1980)
- Sea Songs Smithsonian Folkways FTS 37311 (1979)
- 50 South to 50 South Seaport SPT-102 (1972)
- (with Johnny Handle) Along the Coaly Tyne Topic Records 12T189 (1971)
- Lou Killen, Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy
- Show Me The Way Audio Fidelity Records (1972)
- Save the Land! Audio Fidelity Records (1972)
- Live on St. Patrick's Day Audio Fidelity Records (1973)
- The Clancy Brothers' Greatest Hits Vanguard Records (1973) - Vanguard LP/CD
- This was reissued as 'Best of the Vanguard Years' with bonus material from the 1982 Live! album with Bobby Clancy and Robbie O'Connell.
References
- ^ Woods, Fred (1979) Folk Revival. Poole: Blandford Press; p. 74
- ^ Woods, Fred (1979) Folk Revival. Poole: Blandford Press; p. 58
- ^ "Louisa Jo Killen". www.telegraph.co.uk. 15 August 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ Roos, John (1 May 1993). "Folk Singer Hears Call of the Sea Chanteys". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "A guide to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Photo Lab records, 1963-2014". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- AllMusic. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ "Louis Killen: Biographical". The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ Wood, Heather. "Louisa Jo (Louis) Killen Passes". Sing Out!. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- AllMusic. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ Pohle, Horst (1987) The Folk Record Source Book; 2nd ed. 1987; p. 245
External links
- Schofield, Derek (19 August 2013). "Louis Killen". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- Hunt, Ken (25 August 2013). "Lou Killen: Singer in the vanguard of Britain's folk revival". The Independent. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- "Louis Killen". The Times. No. 70997. 23 September 2013. p. 48. Retrieved 2 December 2021.