Music:
Member Since: 20/01/2008
Band Members: Donna Lynn Caskey - vocals, banjo
Influences: The Divine in its infinite permutations, Terpsichore, Polyhymnia, Granny, mom, pa, my sibs, my niece Em, the radio, public libraries, field recordings, thrift store record bins, the state of Virginia, hymns, mix tapes, the Roanoke Fiddle & Banjo Club, my banjo teachers-- Diane Jones & Brad Leftwich, Y. Sue Thorpe, early MTV, Kermit the Frog, Peter Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, The Go-Gos, Judy Collins, Mama Cass, Harold & Maude, Bobbie Gentry, Bob Dylan, U2, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot, Billie Holiday, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, Walt Whitman, Tori Amos, Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Maines, James Hillman, Sarah Evans, Stevie Wonder, Natalie Goldberg, Lauryn Hill, Sarah McLachlan, Dusty Springfield, Dink Roberts, Tom Robbins, John Herrmann, Kate Wolf, John McCutcheon, Phoebe Snow, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Thomas Moore, Gram Parsons, Alanis Morissette, The Byrds, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Ola Belle Reed, Dwight Diller, Mike Seeger, Rob Brezsny, Jean Ritchie, Victoria Williams, Gillian Welch, Mary Wigman, Julie & Buddy Miller, Texas Gladden, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, The Grateful Dead, Patty Griffin, Carolyn Myss, The Velvet Underground, Anne Lamott, Arthur Lee & Love, Tim & Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Dan & Rayna Gellert, The Hammons Family, John Hiatt, Nathan Frazier, Doc Watson, Joe & Odell Thompson, Tommy Jarrell, Fred Cockerham, Wade Ward, Kyle Creed, Al Green, Eliza Gilkyson, Norman & Nancy Blake, Tom Waits, The Band, Cat Stevens, Taj Mahal, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bonnie Raitt, Skip James, Joan Osborne, The Carter Family, Loretta Lynn, Carole King, Sandy Denny, Etta James, Ryan Adams, Johnny & June Carter Cash, Nick Drake, Tom Brosseau, Mary Oliver, Judee Sill, Peter Levine, French & Ernie Carpenter, Mason Jennings, Steve Martin, Guy Clark, Melvin Wine... I COULD go on...
Sounds Like: Check it out! Streaming audio/ podcast of my show on Songs From A Window:http://www.archive.org/details/DonnaLynnCaskey
Record Label: nada
Type of Label: Unsigned
