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Candye Kane

Sound description

Barroom blues being belted by a busty brassy broad.

RIYL

Ruby and the Red Hots, Koko Taylor, Bette Midler, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Big Mama Thornton

Influences

Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie, Koko Taylor, Big Maybelle, Ornette Coleman, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Bonnie Raitt, Etta James, Wanda Jackson, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Patsy Cline, Exene Cervenka, Divine, Big Mama Thornton, Janis Martin, Kitty Wells, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Eartha Kitt, Sophie Tucker, Mae West

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Raised in a dysfunctional, blue-collar family, Candye Kane became a teenage mother, a pinup cover girl and a punk rock, hillbilly, and blues-belting anarchist by the time she was just 21 years old. Eight CDs, six record labels, millions of international road miles, and countless awards later, Miss Kane has proven to be a true survivor as she scrambled her way to the top of the roots music heap, creating a world-renowned reputation that has spanned two decades.

Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas and Paladin/Hacienda Brother/Stone River Boy Dave Gonzalez co-produced the album Home Cookin’. Picked up by Discovery (later Sire) Records, the Dave Alvin/Derek O’Brien-produced Diva La Grande was followed by Swango, released during the height of the swing craze.

She moved to Oceanside around 1991. A musical based on Kane's early life story, The Toughest Girl in the World, debuted in workshops at the Diversionary Theatre in January 2009.

In 2009, Kane signed with Los Angeles label Delta Groove Records. The subsequent album Superhero was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues CD in the Blues Foundation's Blues Music Awards.

Around the same time, she battled -- and beat -- pancreatic cancer.

In 2010, she completed her autobiographical stage play The Toughest Girl Alive. It debuted January 15, 2011 at the Moxie Theater, running through February 6.

Early 2011 also saw two Kane albums: The Best of Candye Kane: Songs from the Toughest Girl Alive Stageplay includes her 23 original compositions for her autobiographical stage show, while a new CD version of Burlesque Swing became available at CDBaby.com.

In summer 2011, she released her 11th album, Sister Vagabond, on Delta Groove Records. The album was produced by Kane and her guitarist Laura Chavez -- the same duo did her previous album in 2010, Superhero. Her Toughest Girl Alive autobiographical stage musical opened in New York City on August 14.

Sister Vagabond hit #1 on the Living Blues Charts, as well as earning a pick-to-click slot on the XM/Sirius radio program Bluesville. Her son Evan, after eight years with her touring band, has left the group (“we both agreed it was time to go our separate ways for awhile”), to be replaced by Baldhead Fred Rautmann.

The Blues Foundation 33rd Blues Music Award Nominees included Kane, up for the BB King Entertainer of the year award, as well as best Contemporary Blues Female Artist. Around the same time, her album Sister Vagabond was nominated for a German Blues Award.

Her 2013 CD Coming Out Swingin', engineered and co-produced by Thomas Yearsley and Laura Chavez, features thirteen songs Kane wrote or co-wrote with Chavez, plus a few well chosen covers.

"I am really proud of my work on this CD, the first one since my Whipple revision surgery at Cedars Sinai in May of 2012," she says. "It was recorded live to analog in Oceanside at my ex husband Thomas Yearsley’s Thunderbird Studio. It was fun recording and working with Tom again. He did a great job engineering the CD with Laura. She learned so much, I am pretty sure she wants to be an engineer herself now!" The album was released in France on Dixie Frog records on June 18, 2013, and then distributed with the help of Vizztone Records in the USA.

In early 2016, it was reported that Kane was hospitalized in Oceanside on January 4, to await transfer to Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. She passed away on May 6, 2016.

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