Biography
The folk singing duo Kathy & Carol brought together Kathy Larisch and Carol McComb for a lone 1965 Elektra release devoted to harmonized Renaissance ballads. Their sound captured the soaring, unadorned vocal character typical of female folk acts in the first half of the 1960s, yet the intricate harmonies they fashioned revealed genuine warmth and inventive detail, whether framed by acoustic guitar or delivered entirely a cappella. In Jac Holzman and Gavan Daws’s book Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture, producer Paul Rothchild praises the album as “the most beautiful Renaissance ballad record I ever heard. It’s just perfect. If you like Joan Baez, here’s Joan Baez times two, with gorgeous harmony, singing purist songs like angels.” Kathy & Carol issued nothing further, although the same volume records Rothchild’s account of nearly completing a second album a year later, only to find that the debut’s unspoiled quality had disappeared.
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