Sally Timms

Sally Timms, the vocalist recognized above all for her long association with the legendary Mekons, came into the world on November 29, 1959, in Leeds, England. During her teenage years she developed a strong passion for glam rock, yet the emergence of punk ultimately prompted her to launch a career in music, leading in 1980 to a collaboration with the Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley on the album Hangahar. Before entering the Mekons in 1985 she had already fronted her own all-female group the Shee Hees, making her recorded debut with the band on the acclaimed Fear and Whiskey. Two years afterward she and her backing outfit the Drifting Cowgirls released the EP The Butcher Boy. In the period that followed, Timms maintained a dual focus on her Mekons commitments and independent recordings, further developing the country leanings already present in the band's work such as 1987's Honky Tonkin'. Her debut full-length solo album, Somebody's Rocking My Dreamboat, arrived in 1988, while the next one, To the Land of Milk and Honey, took seven years to appear. Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos came out in 1999.