No breathy, little girl voice here.

Alice Stuart.

I've known this gal since she first came into one of Seattle's coffeehouses back around 1961, fresh out of high school. So nervous she was a blur, but when she sang her half-dozens songs, the crowd loved her. She sang a variety of songs, including some things from Joan Baez's records early on, and I gave her some guitar lessons, but I sure didn't teach her what she wound up doing later on!   (Not that I don't like blues, it's just that I stink at it!)

Here she is (CLICKY), looking very much like when I first met her (this is the cover of her first record, 1964).

She ran into Mississippi John Hurt at the 1964 Berkeley Folk Festival and had a chance to pick up some guitar licks from him. She discovered blues, and she went NUTS! And the rest is history!

Bonnie Raitt credits Alice Stuart with breaking the "glass ceiling" for women musicians by being one of the first women to front her own band.

Alice has been on national television, national concert tours, and has been invited to multiple folk festival. She's constantly working. She resides around Seattle.

She's a "take no prisoners" kind of singer!

She's all over YouTube. Here's a start:    Fasten your seat belt!

Don Firth

P. S. Here's Alice's MySpace page:   CLICKY.