Syd Straw Syd Straw is an American rock singer and songwriter . The daughter of actor Jack Straw, she began her career singing backup for Pat Benatar , then took her distinct voice to the indie/alternative scene and joined the ever-evolving line-up of Golden Palominos from 1985 through 1987, appearing on their second and third albums. Straw was a frequent lead singer and occasional co-songwriter for the group, which was spearheaded by drummer Anton Fier and also featured vocal turns by Michael Stipe , Matthew Sweet , Don Dixon , Jack Bruce and others. She left the group in 1987 to establish her solo career. Straw released her first solo album, Surprise , in 1989; it featured contributions by Stipe, Fier, Richard Thompson , Jody Harris , Peter Blegvad , and a number of other well-known musicians. A second album , War and Peace, appeared in 1996. Recorded with a relatively obscure Midwest rock group called the Skeletons , it chronicled a brief and unhappy romance. In 2008, she released a new album, entitled Pink Velour, on her own label, Earnester Records. According to an earlier interview, the title track “is about my family moving back and forth between the east and the west, and my being kidnapped by my mother on Valentine's Day in 1969, and about not seeing my dad for almost seven years .” A frequent backup singer and contributor to duets with other musicians, Straw has also maintained an intermittent acting career, appearing on the television shows The Adventures of Pete & Pete and Tales of the City . Straw's role on The Adventures of Pete & Pete as a middle-school math teacher was introduced in the episode "Valentine's Day Massacre," and was reprised in the episodes "Hard Day's Pete" and "x=why?" Syd Straw can be heard singing harmony and backing vocals on the Rickie Lee Jones albums Traffic from Paradise and The Evening of My Best Day . She is also featured on Leo Kottke's Peculiaroso, which Jones produced. Straw appears on "What Am I Worth" from the Dave Alvin album King of California . For a number of years she has given an annual "Heartwreck" live performance on Valentine's Day. In 1994, Straw teamed up with Wilco to contribute the song "The T.B. Is Whipping Me" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country , produced by the Red Hot Organization .Discography Albums 1989: Surprise 1996: War and Peace 2001: Live at the Triple Crown with The Adventures Of... 2005: Whole Wide World: Uncollected Songs 2008: Pink Velour Compilation albums 1985: various artists - Luxury Condos Coming to Your Neighborhood Soon - track 13, "Listening To Elvis" 1988: various artists - - track 4, "Blue Shadows on the Trail" 1990: various artists - Rutles Highway Revisited - track 1-7, "I Must Be In Love" 1992: various artists - Downtown Does The Beatles Live at the Knitting Factory 1992 - track 10, "Don't Let Me Down" 1993: Chris Stamey and Friends - Christmas Time - track 10, " Presents, Dear" 1994: various artists - Beat the Retreat - Songs by Richard Thompson - track 5, "For Shame of Doing Wrong" 1994: various artists - Red Hot + Country - track 16, "The T.B. Is Whipping Me" 1994: various artists - A Live Christmas Extravaganza - track 2, "X-Mas Twist" 1995: various artists - Live from Mountain Stage Volume 8 - track 9, "Golden Dreams" 1998: various artists - Real: The Tom T Hall Project - track 10, "Harper Valley P.T.A." 2000: various artists - One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs of Bruce Springsteen - track 12, "Meeting Across the River" 2001: various artists - Daddy-O Daddy! Rare Family Songs of Woody Guthrie - track 8, "My Daddy "Appears on 1985: The Golden Palominos - Visions of Excess 1986: Beat Rodeo - Home in the Heart of the Beat 1986: The Golden Palominos - Blast of Silence 1987: The dB's - The Sound of Music 1987: Victoria Williams - Happy Come Home 1988: Eric Ambel - Roscoe's Gang 1988: Face to Face - One Big Day 1989: Boo Hewerdine and Darden Smith - Evidence 1989: Mark Bingham - I Passed for Human 1989: Marshall Crenshaw - Good Evening 1989: Van Dyke Parks - Tokyo Rose 1990: Peter Blegvad - King Strut and Other Stories 1990: Bloomsday - Fortuny 1990: Was - Are You Okay? 1990: Roy Nathanson - Little Fred 1991: Barkmarket - Vegas Throat 1991: David Sanborn - Another Hand 1992: Freedy Johnston - Can You Fly 1992: Marc Ribot - Requiem for What's His Name 1993: Dave Alvin - Museum of Heart 1993: Rickie Lee Jones - Traffic from Paradise 1993: Vic Chesnutt - Drunk 1994: Dave Alvin - King of California 1994: Doug Legacy with the Zydeco Party Band - King Cake Party 1994: Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star 1994: Leo Kottke - Peculiaroso 1995: Tony Trischka - World Turning 1998: Richard Buckner - Since 2000: John Greaves - The Caretaker 2000: The Schramms - 100 Questions 2000: Christy McWilson - The Lucky One 2002: Wayne Kramer - Adult World 2003: Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day 2004: One Ring Zero - As Smart as We Are 2014: Wilco - 2015: Bill Wells & Friends - Nursery Rhymes As composer 1990: David Halley - Stray Dog Talk - track 9, "Dream Life"
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