Biography
After spending her early years as a navy brat, Nancy Apple made Memphis, TN, her permanent base in 1975 once her father retired from service. Within that city she developed her work as a singer, songwriter, and musician, drawing on the singular country, blues, and rock fusion native to her adopted surroundings. Her first professional steps came in the 1980s as drummer for a string of local punk and garage outfits—the Ex-Wives, Tino and the Teetotalers, the Hellcats, and Apple/Sides—followed by two years, 1988–89, in Willie Cobbs’ backup band. In 1989 she took a small acting role in the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! and simultaneously formed the Cadillac Cowgirls. The first two releases bearing her name, Tijuana Tapes (1994) and Cadillac Cowgirl -- High on the Hog (1996), were issued under the billing Cadillac Cowgirl With Her Back Door Men. She fronted the band heard in the Cinemax feature Finding Graceland, which first aired on the channel in May 1999. By 2000 she had added volunteer duties at Memphis station WEVL, where she hosted the weekly program CarTunes, and served as Memphis music editor for America Online’s Digital City Memphis. Her debut solo album, Outside the Lines, appeared in early 2001.
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