Biography
Rosalie Sorrels (June 24, 1933 – June 11, 2017) was an American folk singer-songwriter. She began her public career as a singer and collector of traditional folksongs in the late 1950s. During the early 1960s she left her husband and began traveling and performing at music festivals and clubs throughout the United States. She and her five children traveled across the country as she worked to support her family and establish herself as a performer. Along the way she made many lifelong friends among the folk and Beat scene. Her career of social activism, storytelling, teaching, learning, songwriting, collecting folk songs, performing, and recording spanned six decades.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
118 releases · 24 albums · active 1961–2024
- Performance · 239
- Other credits · 45
- Production · 15
Studios: Pacific High Recording · Wally Heider Recording · Bearsville Studios · Advantage Sound
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Paul Kantner
- Nanci Griffith
- Different Shoes
- Kate Wolf
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Gretchen Peters
- Malvina Reynolds