Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Linda Ronstadt & Maria Muldaur - In Concert, Red Creek Cabaret, Rochester, NY, 6-12-1984

I stumbled across this the other day, and thought it interesting enough to post it straight away. I've been wanting to post something from Kate and Anna McGarrigle for some time. The fact that this prominently features Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur made it extra appealing to me.

This comes from a TV special called "Kate and Anna McGarrigle in Concert." (I shortened it to just "In Concert" for the title because extra long titles can cause problems sometimes.) It was held in a small club in the out of the way town of Rochester, New York, for some reason. I took this from a video, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s. If you look at the video, only a couple hundred of people filled the club.

Most of the songs just featured Kate and Anna McGarrigle and their band. But on some songs, Linda Ronstadt and/or Maria Muldaur joined in. Sometimes they sang lead, and sometimes backing vocals. You can get the gist of what they did on each song by looking at the song list.  

Kate and Anna McGarrigle were a talented singing and songwriting duo, as well as sisters. (Kate died in 2010 at the age of 63, but Anna is still alive as I write this in 2025.) They never had any hit albums or singles per se, but they were consistently critically acclaimed. Other musical acts liked covering their songs. That's probably why Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur were here, as a kind of thank you since both of them put songs written by McGarrigle on their albums. (And in a better world, "Love Over and Over" should have been a hit - I love that song. I'm glad to see it was included here.)

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Wikipedia 

01 As Fast as My Little Feet Can Carry Me (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
02 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
03 Complainte pour Ste. Catherine (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
04 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
05 NaCl [Sodium Chloride] (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
06 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
07 The Work Song (Maria Muldaur with Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
08 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
09 Heart like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt with Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Maria Muldaur)
10 Travellin' On for Jesus (Kate & Anna McGarrigle with Linda Ronstadt & Maria Muldaur)
11 Dig My Grave (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
12 talk (Maria Muldaur)
13 The Lying Song (Maria Muldaur)
14 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
15 [Talk to Me Of] Mendocino (Linda Ronstadt with Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
16 Go Leave (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
17 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
18 Tu Vas M'Accompagner [You'll Accomp'ny Me] (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
19 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
20 Going Out Looking (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
21 Love Over and Over (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
22 talk (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
23 You Tell Me that I'm Falling Down (Linda Ronstadt, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle)
24 Parlez-nous a Boire (Kate & Anna McGarrigle)

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I have a difficult time coming up with the cover. The video footage from this concert is very low-res and blurry. So any picture with multiple people in it looked pretty bad. I decided to take screenshots of the heads of Kate McGarrigle and Linda Ronstadt when they were reasonably close to each other. Then I used Photoshop to move them closer still. I also used the Krea AI program to flesh out some more detail.