Kim Ferron | tl

Ferron (born Debbie Foisy on June 2, 1952) is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter and poet. In addition to being one of Canada's most famous folk musicians, she is one of the most influential writers and performers of women's music, and an important influence on later musicians such as Ani DiFranco and the Indigo Girls. Ferron is featured in the documentary on women's music, Radical Harmonies 2002. Ferron's rough-hewn voicing, chewy phrasing, and poetic songwriting has brought many favorable comparisons, including Kitty Wells, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen (cf. Stephen Holden 1994). One wit aptly summed up Ferron's legendary...

In a musical climate dominated by pre-packaged hype and artificially sweetened ear candy, Kim Ferron is the real thing, an artist who remembers the days when songs actually mattered. She emerges fully formed on her exhilarating Cherry/Universal debut, an album that reveals an emotional depth and range that broadens with each listen. Uncompromising, cathartic and from the soul, Ferron's confessional song writing lays her bare: raw yet gentle, tender yet lacerated, vulnerable yet completely in control, all sung with a voice that's warm, fluid, and absolutely stunning. Whether cooing about pleasures of the flesh, asserting her self-reliance or condemning a...