Linda Perhacs: Featured Artist for 04/02/2018

There are a great many artists out there that one suspects should’ve been more successful than they were. Linda Perhacs is one of these artists. In 1970, Linda was a dental hygienist to the rich and famous by day and song writer/musician by night. She recorded an amazing, beautiful song, ‘Parallelograms’ (with an album of the same name). According to her biography over at Wikipedia: Perhacs was born Linda Arnold in 1943 in Mill Valley, California. In the late 1960s, Perhacs relocated to Topanga Canyon, and was working as a dental hygienist in Beverly Hills, California. One of her dental clients, Oscar-winning film composer Leonard Rosenman, was impressed by one of her demos and brought her into a studio session, during 1969-1970, producing her first album, Parallelograms. The album was an expression of not only her personal aesthetics but also of the psychedelic, return-to-nature movement, that imbued popular Californian youth-culture of that era. Unfortunately the album received scant notice and sales at the time of its original release and Linda never was able to devote herself entirely to her music. Fast-forward to 1998, when the album was rediscovered by psych and folk enthusiasts. Through the attention of trance DJs and others in the Rave music scene, Ms. Perhacs was invited to follow up her first album with a second in 2014, 44 years after the first. If you would like to read more about Linda, her experiences as and artist and her ‘second bite of the cherry’, there is a fantastic and fascinating article/interview with Ms. Perhacs posted over at NPR: The Legend Of Linda Perhacs, 'A Most Unlikely Rock Star': https://www.npr.org/2014/03/05/283049017/the-legend-of-linda-perhacs-a-most-unlikely-rock-star