The Undersung
Our critics on great artists who mightve been lost to the canon.
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Its never quite worked out that way.
Success in the music industry is a spurious concept.
Torrys performance manages to express the full range of human emotion without relying on words.
Session work is rewarding but also nomadic and sometimes frustratingly anonymous.
Great players participate in memorable work but shuffle along to the next before the accolades roll in.
Torrys singing career never quite reached the altitudes to which her elastic range and white-hot passion seemed destined.
The 1973 single Carry on Singing My Song is an unwitting mission statement for the rest of Torrys career.
Its about picking up the pieces after a moment of misfortune.
Ill just carry on singing my song, she shouts, carry on making my own kind of music.
Thats an ending as neat as a fairy tales.
