Singer-songwriter Judee Sill packed a lot of living into her 35 years, much of it hard. Drugs, reform school, losing her father when she was just 8.
Of her mother she said, “She was mean on top of being dumb.” In her late teens, in the early 1960s, she got involved with a bad hombre in Southern California and they pulled off a few armed robberies.
In one incident, she reportedly told a guy behind a liquor store counter, “Okay, mother sticker, this is a fuck up!” Humor she did not lack.
As a child Sill learned piano at an upright in a saloon owned by her dad. She mastered other instruments, including bass and guitar.
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