finetune artist: Lou Ann Barton

b. 17 February 1954, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. In the early 70s, Barton sprang fully formed into the Texas bar-room blues scene. She divided her time between singing with Robert Ealey And His Five Careless Lovers in her home-town, performing with the Dallas band run by Marc Benno (ex-Asylum Choir), and picking up gigs around the Austin clubs, including an early prototype of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. In 1976, Stevie Ray Vaughan chose her to be a member of the Triple Threat Revue, the third being singer/guitarist W.C. Clark. When Clark quit, the band changed its name to Double Trouble. With two strong personalities vying for the spotlight, trouble was, unsurprisingly, not long in coming, and towards the end of 1979, Barton announced that she was joining Roomful Of Blues for a tour of north-west USA. In 1982, Glenn Frey and Jerry Wexler produced her first solo album, Old Enough, which was recorded in Muscle Shoals. Unfortunately, her personal habits and the unreliability that they engendered caused Asylum to cancel the tour that had been set up to support the album. Two further albums failed to establish her beyond Austin city limits. Her contributions to Dreams Come True remain the best examples of a talent of which the singer Linda Ronstadt has claimed to be frightened.

Listen to Lou Ann Barton at Finetune.

(1998) Sugar Coated Love
(1989) Read My Lips

Sugar Coated Love
He's Gotta Use His Head To Turn Me On
Young And Dumb
Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
It's Raining