Anyone here know of the singer/song writer Lynn Miles from Canada?

[Dover]

If not you're missing a remarkable artist, and these wintery nights are perfect for her Chalk This One Up To The Moon CD which was produced in Dublin in '91.

My favorite song...A Little Rain

Also enjoy Mary Black. Both have crystal clear, beautiful voices.

Here's Lynn's bio:

Biography
b. 29 September 1958, Sweetsburg, Quebec, Canada. Miles's parents brought her up in a musical household, where space on the record player was divided between her mother's opera and country records and her father' jazz albums. She studied violin and flute at school before taking piano lessons, self-financed from sporadic employment as a babysitter. Her first songs were written at the age of 10, inspired by her devotion to music and her voracious reading of mystery novels. She began to sing in clubs before studying as an opera singer for two years as she turned 20 years old. After initially working with Mark Thibeault she embarked on a musical partnership with guitarist Terry Tufts with whom she continued to earn a modest living throughout Ottawa. Initially playing covers, Miles subsequently introduced her own songs into the set, leading to her first recording sessions in 1987. This self-titled cassette recording, which included strong early compositions such as "White Knight" and "The Art Of Self-Defense", gave notice of her developing talent. Her personal circumstances were still difficult however, and during this period she helped support herself with work at the Ottawa Folklore Centre as a voice teacher, her students included a young Alanis Morissette. A second album for Snowy River Records, this time issued on compact disc, followed in 1991. Chalk This One Up To The Moon included a revealing testament to her nation's fixation with male sports which she had witnessed in her adolescence. "It's Hockey Night In Canada" was the record's most powerful moment, though other songs such as "It'll Be Here" and "All I Ever Wanted" were also convincing. Buoyed by strong reviews, Miles ventured south of the Canadian border for her first performances in the USA and also appeared at the 1992 Mariposa Folk Festival. There she met Guy Clark, who introduced her to his producer Miles Wilkinson, who in turn found her an American publisher. In October 1994 she returned to the studio to record Slightly Haunted.

[Dover]

1. Winter melancholy.

Lynn Miles is not afraid to look at the melancholy side of life, and write about it. Write about it she does -- with a depth, truth and clarity that few contemporary singer/songwriters possess. Combine those gifts with her beautiful, plaintive voice, her stellar guitar playing and her amazing sense of humor, and you have a truly captivating artist.

Lynn has always had music flowing through her veins. Lynn's mom says that she could tell when Lynn was finally asleep in her crib, because the singing would stop. When she was a child, she could play any instrument she picked up, including guitar, piano, flute, violin and mandolin. Lynn studied music at Carleton University for a brief period, but her love for contemporary songwriting, was something she felt she couldn't learn in school; plus, the 8 a.m. classes were killing her so she dropped out and started playing her songs in bars in Ottawa, Canada. She's been making a living as an artist ever since.

In the early nineties, Lynn released two independent recordings in Canada, "Lynn Miles" and "Chalk This One Up to the Moon," toured across her native land, and was one of only a handful of artists chosen to record seven songs for the BBC's "Hitmen" CD series. Her poignant song "Remembrance Day" was picked by the Canadian Armed Forces to be made into a video depicting the sadness and losses of war. It plays nationally every November 11th, on television stations across Canada. Lynn signed a publishing deal in 1992 with the Los Angeles-based Criterion Music Corporation (publishers of a diverse roster of artists from Charlie Parker to Lyle Lovett). She's been honing her craft in clubs, festivals and concert halls, as a solo artist and with her band in North America and Europe since before the 1996 release of her highly acclaimed Rounder Records album, "Slightly Haunted."

One of the songs from Slightly Haunted, "I Always Told You the Truth," was released as a video and played on heavy rotation on CMT in Canada, and received airplay on CMT and VH1 in Europe. This led to several tours of Holland, Germany, Belgium and the UK, and an opening spot on a 12-city US tour with Richard Thompson. The album was named one of the top ten critics' picks in Billboard Magazine in 1996.

Lynn moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and, in 1998, released her second CD for Boston-based Rounder Records, "Night in a Strange Town". This album was co-produced by John Cody and Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin), and has garnered much critical praise and was distributed by Universal in Canada. Two of the songs "Sunset Blvd.," and "Sacre Coeur" were placed on heavy rotation on BBC radio, which led to a very successful, recent tour of England and Scotland.

Lynn's most recent CD, "Unravel" released in Europe and Canada in October 2001, saw her reunited in the studio with long time musical collaborator, Ian Lefeuvre. Ian's inventive, melodic guitar playing can be heard all over "Slightly Haunted." Lynn has this to say about her new CD . . . "I asked Ian to produce my album because I was totally confident that he knew what I wanted. I also knew he would challenge me, which he did. It was a sheer joy working with him. We recorded in his studio, which is underneath a hair salon and a shwarma shop. In between the sounds of rinsing and chopping of parsley and beets, we recorded an album of which I'm very proud. We've known each other and played music together for eight years, along with our drummer Peter Von Althen, and there is definitely something very freeing about that kind of musical relationship."

[KG]

2. i saw her in concert a couple months back

with cliff eberhardt. they are friends.

[welshTerrier2]

3. Into Folk Music ??

if you haven't listened to it, give FolkAlley a try (www.folkAlley.com) ... they play a mix of folk, blues and bluegrass ... the best folk station i've ever heard ...

FolkAlley and DU ... it doesn't get any better than that ...

they played a lynn miles tune last night called Black Flowers ... beautiful song ...

[Dover]

4. Excellent.......thanks for the link!

Gonna go check it out.