Laura (L) and Lydia Rogers: The Secret Sisters
Laura and Lydia Rogers are really sisters from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They are country singers who have been performing together since they were kids in church and with their very musical family. In 2010 they released their first album which contained this song, written by Laura, called “Tennessee Me.”
They are very traditional young ladies who made their first album on analogue equipment using one old fashioned microphone. This past week they performed in concert on Public Television together with T-Bone Burnett , Jacob Dylan, Elvis Costello, and an ensemble of excellent musicians including the superb steel guitar player Robbie Turner. They are currently working on their second album. This music isn’t what you usually hear at the Country Music Awards where there is a lot of fusion going on. The Secret Sisters’ choice of songs takes you back to another era. –Paul Goldfinger
NOTE: There is a young woman named Lorraine O”Brien who grew up in Ocean Grove but eventually wound up in Los Angeles. She is Executive Vice President of a company that brings “Broadway to Hollywood.”
She and her parents and 3 sisters lived in a sprawling Victorian a block away from our house at Mt. Hermon Way and Delaware. And they have kept their OG home for over 40 years .
But Lorraine always finds her way back to the Grove. Recently she moved with her husband to a farm in Tennessee.
And now Lorraine has reappeared, and she likes to follow Blogfinger to keep in touch with town. So we were chatting and I was trying to recall some songs I had used which mention Tennessee.
I found one post from 2013 which featured a song called “Tennessee Me”. But Lorraine didn’t know it. After all, it’s not a show tune.
So now she knows. PG