Anne Murray

Artist: Anne Murray

LP: What About Me

Song: "I Don't Want to Drive You Away"

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I've never been much of a fan of adult-contemporary/country singer Anne Murray, but I picked up her 1968 debut LP at a thrift store while visiting Pasco, WA with a friend a few years ago, since the cover looked promising. I finally put it on the other day, and was pleasantly surprised! The record sorta' sounds like a nice, folksy mixture of The Velvet Underground and Aimee Mann, with maybe a dash of Ellen DeGeneres thrown in too. (But that might just be her looks—can Ellen even sing?) Anyway, you can read all about the life and career of popular Canadian singer and golf-enthusiast Anne Murray here, and if you ever find yourself in Nova Scotia, be sure to stop in at The Anne Murray Centre in her hometown of Springhill.