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Francine Reed (born July 11, 1947, in Pembroke Township, Illinois, United States) is an American blues singer, solo artist, and regular singing partner of Lyle Lovett since the 1980s and member of Lovett's Large Band. Reed has also recorded duets with Willie Nelson and Delbert McClinton and others.

Biography

Reed sang at church services in her youth and her music was inspired and influenced by her gospel-singing father. She is the sister of jazz singer Margo Reed who died in April 2015 at the age of 73.

In Phoenix, Arizona, Francine Reed appeared with Miles Davis, Stanley Jordan, Smokey Robinson, Etta James, and The Crusaders. In 1985, she began recording and touring with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Reed has also appeared on recordings by Delbert McClinton, Willie Nelson and Roy Orbison. After she relocated to Georgia in the 1990s, she released her first solo album, I Want You to Love Me. Reed has received the W. C. Handy Artist of the Year and Song of the Year nominations. (The W. C. Handy awards were renamed the Blues Music Awards in 2006). Reed was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1997.

Reed is perhaps best known for her performances of the classic blues song "Wild Women (Don't Get the Blues)," written in 1924 by Ida Cox. A recording of this song appears on Reed's albums, I Want You to Love Me, I Got a Right!...to Some of My Best, and Blues Collection; as well as on Ichiban Records Wild Women Do Get the Blues and Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas.

Reed's distinctive voice can be heard on a television advertisement for Senokot laxative ("I Feel Good"), and in a scene from the film The Firm (1993).

In the mid-1990s she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she frequently performed at Blind Willie's in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood. In 2016 she moved back to Phoenix and has given up touring.

Partial discography

TV and film

References

1. "Phoenix jazz legend Margo Reed dies at 73". Azcentral.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
2. Skelly, Richard. "Biography: Francine Reed". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
3. ""Who is Francine Reed?", Francine Reed official website". Francinereed.net. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
4. Eldredge, Richard L. (2020-09-17). "Live From Phoenix, Francine Reed Readies Her First-Ever Streaming Show". Eldredge Atlanta. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
5. "Francine Reed". Discogs.com. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
6. "Music by Francine Reed". Tunefind.com. Retrieved 2017-11-27.

External links

• FrancineReed.net
• Arizona Blues Hall of Fame Website Archived 2018-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
• "Francine Reed", New Georgia Encyclopedia Website Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Blues Music Awards

• 1947 births
• Living people
• People from Kankakee County, Illinois
• American blues singers
• Singers from Atlanta
• Singers from Chicago
• Singers from Arizona
• 21st-century African-American women singers
• 21st-century American women singers
• 20th-century African-American women singers
• 20th-century American women singers
• 20th-century American singers
• Lyle Lovett and His Large Band members