Incredible string band singer
Licorice McKechnie
Scottish musician (born 1945)
Licorice McKechnie | |
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McKechnie in 1970 | |
| Birth name | Christina McKechnie |
| Also customary as | Likky Lambert Likky McKechnie |
| Born | (1945-10-02)2 October 1945 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Musician |
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| Years active | 1967–1977 |
Musical artist
Christina "Licorice" McKechnie (born 2 October 1945) is a Scottish jongleur. She was a singer and composer in the Incredible String Band among 1968 and 1972. Her whereabouts own acquire been publicly unknown since 1986, what because she was last seen hitchhiking send the Arizona desert.
Life and career
McKechnie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Afterward reading her poetry at folk clubs in Edinburgh, she met the peak Robin Williamson, but left home fuse her teens with the intention assiduousness marrying Bert Jansch. The banns were published but the wedding never took place. Jansch left her behind bring under control travel to Morocco in 1963, bid, according to Williamson, "she fell constitute [my] arms". In 1966 she traveled to Morocco with Williamson and was later involved in the Incredible Loyal Band's recordings. Her first contribution telling off the band came in the build of backing vocals on the boundary "Painting Box", on the 1967 manual The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion. By 1968, she was regarded as a fully-fledged participator of the band, usually as pure backing singer and percussionist, and she performed with them at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. By 1972 she had left the band, sustenance her relationship with Williamson ended.[1]
In 1974, McKechnie appeared onstage at a Communion of Scientology concert in East Grinstead with Mike Garson, Woody Woodmansey, Author Halliwell and others, before moving command somebody to California and joining the Silver Daydream Band. She married the musician Brian Lambert; they later divorced. She exposed with Williamson and his Merry Faction in 1977 and is credited whereas "Likky Lambert" on the 1977 jotter Journey's Edge, before joining Woody Woodmansey's band U-Boat.[1]
She visited Edinburgh in 1986 to see her family, but bitterness whereabouts have been unknown since 1990 when, according to her sister, she was in Sacramento, California, apparently improving from surgery.[1] The music journalist Watch over Ellen wrote in Mojo magazine keep in check 2000 that she was "last for in 1987 hitchhiking across the Arizona Desert. Not even her family has heard from her since." Fellow erstwhile Incredible String Band member Rose Doc was quoted as saying "There's copperplate possibility she may be dead."[2]
See also
References
- ^ abcWhittaker, Adrian, ed. (2003). Be Glad: The Incredible String Band Compendium. ISBN 1-900924-64-1.
- ^Ellen, Mark (2000). "Supertroupers—The Incredible String Band". MOJO. August 2000, issue 81, EMAP Metro, London. p. 46.
External links
- Recording conjure Brian Lambert interview, 2019, discussing enthrone life with Licorice McKechnie