Biography
She covered “Eleanor Rigby”. Seriously, her cover of the well-known Beatles tune is haunting and beautiful. She has a full-length album, Meet Anna Black. It was released by Epic in 1968, and it exists as both a commercial (yellow label) and a promotional (white label) release. I know the white label promo is Monophonic, but I don’t know anything really about stock copies. The photograph above was heisted from another website.
She is from Oklahoma, her lineage traces back to the Chickasaw Indian tribe, and she cuts her own hair. Also, something about chilies and maybe
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Her style is somewhat jazzy, somewhat bluesy, somewhat psychedelic and somewhat folky. At times it sounds like all four. Of the few websites and eBay auctions I found that reference Meet Anna Black, there are references to a genre called “female fuzz,” and another called “femme folk psych.” You’ll have to listen for yourselves if you want to take a stab at it.
Anna Black
Meet Anna Black
Tracklist:
01. Miss Otis Regrets
02. Little Annie Weed
03. You-All Come
04. Hey Now Now
05. The Tullys & The Tolphins
06. Jimmy Ben
07. Eleanor Rigby
08. Freedom Train
09. Gloomy Sunday
10. Muddy Hay
11. Drinkin’ Daddy
12. Billy Goat Run
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.