Biography
Barbara Jean Spillman (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024), known professionally as Barbara Dane, was an American folk, blues and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Jazz critic Leonard Feather described Dane as "Bessie Smith in stereo" in the late 1950s. Time wrote of Dane: "The voice is pure, rich ... rare as a 20-carat diamond" and quoted Louis Armstrong's exclamation upon hearing her at the Pasadena jazz festival: "Did you get that chick? She's a gasser!" On the occasion of her 85th birthday, The Boston Globe music critic James Reed called her "one of the true unsung heroes of American music."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
138 releases · 31 albums · active 1957–2025
- Performance · 166
- Other credits · 77
- Production · 23
- Engineering · 6
Studios: Town Hall, New York · The Ash Grove, Los Angeles · Rocket Lab · Terlinde Music Shop, St. Paul, MN
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Lightning Hopkins
- Judy Collins
- The Hot Club Of San Francisco
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Mikis Theodorakis
- Don Ewell
- Bernice Reagon