Donna washburn singer biography

Explore Donna Washburn's discography including top tracks, albums, and reviews.
Donna Washburn's professional music career began when she joined Dillard & Clark (Gene Clark, formerly of the Byrds) in February 1969 on guitar.
However, the addition of Dillard's girlfriend Donna Washburn as a full-time harmony vocalist (and lead vocalist on "Rocky Top"), replacing Leadon, caused.

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you are no doubt leaping from your chair to shout “I know, I know – Donna Washburn and Michelle Phillips are missing from that so-called photo of Cohen’s 1970 backup singers.”

Michelle Phillips? That's brand new name to me as well. I am now surfing and see that she sung late US shows in 1970. She's not mentioned even in the latest biography (Reynolds') so this must be brand new discovery although I now see she mentions this on her website. Reynolds accented Laura Branigan's role in 1976 tour, and found her picture with Cohen, although previously we ever hardly noticed her as Jennifer Warnes, Sharon, Anjani and others were much more important (and Branigan didn't really go well with Cohen's voice). So he would mention that Mamas & Papas member was singing with LC.

I have to add about these late 1970 shows in LA, NYC and universities, we did not knowabout them until few years back (they're not listed in Jim Devlin's book methinks) and then JF Bedard of now retired leonardcohenlive.com started to receive some emails and updates about those shows, and Joe Way here was one of t

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Joe Cocker
vocals

Leon Russell
guitar, keyboards

Don Preston
guitar, keyboards

Carl Radle
bass

Chris Stainton
keyboards

Jim Price
trumpet

Bobby Keys
sax

Sandy Konikoff
percussion

Bobby Torres
percussion

Chuck Blackwell
percussion, drums

Jim Keltner
drums

Jim Gordon
drums

Rita Coolidge
backing vocals

Claudia Lennear
backing vocals

Donna Washburn
backing vocals

Daniel Moore
backing vocals

Donna Weiss
backing vocals

Pamela Polland
backing vocals

Matthew Moore
backing vocals

Nicole Barclay
backing vocals

Bobby Jones
backing vocals

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I'm a sucker for that rootsy blend of country, bluegrass, folk and rock that was LA “Country Rock” circa 1968-69… but I've always had a nagging doubt about those early years, and that doubt has grown over time due to throw-away lines in reviews, biographies and documentaries.

The thing is, LA Country Rock (like so much of rock, really) seems to be a boys-only club. More worryingly, some of that attitude seems to have passed down through the ages where it still continues to effect how some albums are appreciated.

Take the 2nd Dillard & Clark Album for example…

You may or may not have heard of Dillard & Clark. You may have heard hip references to their genre defining first album “The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark”.

Quite recently Robert Plant & Alison Krauss found critical and commercial success when they covered a couple of Dillard & Clark songs. You may even have read a passing mention about a disappointing second album and the hasty end of the group.

Second Album

“Through the Morning, Thr