Jamie Anderson (musician)

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Jamie Anderson
Born
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Occupation(s)Singer, musician, writer
Years active1987–present

Jamie Anderson is an American/Canadian female singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Tucson, Arizona, best known as a performer of women's music. She is based in Ottawa, Ontario. Since 1987 she has played her original songs in hundreds of venues in four countries including forty-seven US states. [1] Anderson first began touring the U.S. in 1987, and released her debut album in 1989. She was voted Favorite New Performer by Hot Wire in 1990 and 1991, and played many women's music festivals through the decade of the 1990s through today. [2]

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Anderson teaches music on line, YouTube, arts centers, festivals, and her studio. [3]

Anderson's memoir, Drive All Night, was published in 2014. Her second book, An Army of Lovers: Women’s Music of the Seventies and Eighties, was published in 2019. Drive All Day: Because I'm Too Old to Drive All Night was published in 2022. She has written book chapters, articles and CD reviews in Acoustic Guitar, Curve, SingOut! and more.

She is openly lesbian. [3]

Discography

Selected works

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References

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  2. Jamie Anderson at Allmusic
  3. 1 2 Urban, Robert (June 2005). "Jamie Anderson". Gay Guitarists Worldwide. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  4. "Music and Video". Feminist Bookstore News. Vol. 12, no. 2. July–August 1989. pp. S-23.
  5. "Music, music, music". New Directions for Women. Vol. 21, no. 6. November–December 1992. p. 23.
  6. 1 2 3 Doyle, JD (October 2013). "Jamie Anderson Interview". Queer Music Heritage. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  7. "Jamie Anderson in Concert". Ozark Feminist Review. Vol. 4, no. 5. March–April 1995. pp. 1, 3.
  8. "La-la-la-la lesbians". Wisconsin Gazette. November 4, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2019.