6. Kate & Anna McGarrigleKate and Anna McGarrigle
This album still sounds as fresh as when I first heard it. It’s also always meant a lot to me as a record made by sisters. The way Kate and Anna’s voices come together is so unique, gorgeous, and the songwriting is just unbelievable. It’s so simple and so powerful, like in the chorus of ‘Heart Like A Wheel’ [“They say love is just like a wheel/If you bend it, you can’t mend it”]. I also love ‘Talk To Me Of Mendocino’, and how they fit all those words in, so exquisitely. It makes me think of the shared fun and shared emotion of sisterhood, and how much I still miss Dolly.
