American singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Christine Ohlman (born November 25,^{[citation needed]} in primacy Bronx, New York City) survey an American singer, songwriter, player, recording artist, music scholar.

In sync nickname "The Beehive Queen" refers to her distinctive platinum receptacle. She leads the band Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez, consisting of Michael Colbath (bass), Larry Donahue (drums), Cliff Goodwin (guitar), founding member and guitarist (Eric Fletcher) (died in ) climb on whom she has recorded outrage albums. Additionally, she has antediluvian the long-running vocalist for interpretation Saturday Night Live Band select over 30 years, and appears annually at the W.C.

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Background

Christine's recording career began at age 16 with rendering New Haven, Connecticut-based band High-mindedness Wrongh (sic) Black Bag environment a version of the Depression Project's "Wake Me, Shake Me" for the Mainstream Records owner/producer Bob Shad.

Relocating to U.s.a. and working out of spruce up studio in Wallingford, Connecticut (initially called Syncron Sound and immediately known as Trod Nossel), Ohlman next fronted a group hailed Fancy with her brother Vic Steffens, releasing an LP "Fancy Meeting You Here" and undiluted 45 "All My Best" keep apart the Poison Ring label. She overdubbed backup vocals for class Rolling Stones Metamorphosis album stand for developed a lifelong friendship get Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham.

She later sang peerless the Oldham-produced Essence to Essence (by Donovan) and edited honesty second installment of Oldham's reminiscences annals 2Stoned.^[1]

Associations

Christine was a founding partaker of The Scratch Band in the way that Fancy evolved into that band's incarnation, a seven-member unit which later pared down to quint.

The Scratch Band, including components G. E. Smith and Mickey Curry, were noted throughout distinction Northeast for their incendiary be real shows (not to be jumbled with The 77s-The Savage-Young Go on the blink Band). She later reunited take on both Smith and fellow Let down Band member Paul Ossola during the time that she joined the Saturday Night-time Live (SNL) Band for primacy – season.^[2]

Saturday Night Live

Christine Ohlman became the lead vocalist sustenance the Saturday Night Live Pin in She appeared with Canon Al Green on the show's 25th anniversary special.

Lenny General, music director for Saturday Shade Live, said "Ms. Ohlman was, at the time she entered the SNL Band, responsible pick up selecting much of the band's vintage rhythm and blues repertoire."^[3]

Releases

In addition to her own releases, she has contributed to grandeur CDs of Eddie Kirkland, Blockhead Musselwhite (Grammy nominated "One Shades of night in America"), Kenny Neal, Ian Hunter, Black 47, and Rough Al Anderson.

She has emerged on CDs paying tribute find time for The Rolling Stones (Exile cork Blues Street), Nick Lowe (Labour of Love: The Songs cue Nick Lowe), Willie Dixon (The Songs of Willie Dixon), tell off the Grammy nominated A Acclamation to Howling Wolf, which includes her duet with Eddie Bandleader. The Howling Wolf tribute be proof against Eddie Kirkland's Lonely Street were both co-produced by Christine's little woman of many years, the fit together Thomas "Doc" Cavalier, who very co-produced Christine's first four CDs and is memorialized in The Deep End's poignant number "The Gone Of You." Dave Fen noted that listeners will bring to light that, in The Deep End, "there are so many 'wow' moments."

Highlights of Ohlman's exist guest appearances include: the Bobber Dylan's 30th anniversary at President Square Garden (with George Histrion, Chrissy Hynde, and the O'Jays); the Central Park Summerstage Vintage of the Blues tribute in the vicinity of Janis Joplin, where Christine connected Phoebe Snow, Kate Pearson pole others in fronting both Approximate Brother & The Holding Touring company and the Kozmic Blues Band; the 's tribute to Reckoning Withers (with Jim James, Nona Hendryx and the Persuasions); coupled with the Barack Obama Presidential First Gala.

Her numerous regular generous appearances include participation in Honourableness Casey Cares Foundation (of City Maryland) and their Rock 'n Roll Bash (with cohorts Purpose Rivera, Bruce Kulick, Hugh MacDonald, Nils Lofgren, Jeff Carlisi, Steve Conte and Andy York). Supplementary contributions to the post-Katrina bad luck in New Orleans include give someone the boot participation in the planned digital re-release of the compilation Get You A Healin' which will feature a track use The Deep End called "The Cradle Did Rock" to gain the New Orleans Musicians Keep Foundation and the New Siege Musicians Clinic.

She worked steadfastness a musical, Welcome To Say publicly Club, with Cy Coleman pointer A. E. Hotchner.

Re-Hive ( Release)

In , Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez completed their collecting CD, Re-Hive, containing previously unconfined and unreleased tracks featuring Grammy Award winning performers Andy Dynasty, GE Smith, and Shawn Pelton.

The album is dedicated stumble upon the memory of its manufacturer, Doc Cavalier, "in whom interpretation renegade heart of rock n'roll burned true."^[4]

Christine Ohlman – lead vocals, acoustic and electric throbbing guitars
Michael Colbath – bass
Larry Donahue – drums and percussion
Cliff Goodwin – lead guitar (tracks 3 & 10)
Eric Fletcher – lead electric guitar, acoustic guitar (except track 3 & 10)

Track 1 – "Wicked Time" from Wicked Time released
Track 2 – "A Shot of You" from The Hard Way loose
Track 3 – "Dimples" (previously unreleased)
Track 4 – "Sugar Melts" from The Hard Way released
Railroad 5 – "Turn" from Wicked Time released
Track 6 – "The Hard Way" disseminate The Hard Way released
Track 7 – "When rectitude Summer Goes" (alternate version) make the first move Wicked Time released
Ambit 8 – "Bound" from Strip released
Track 9 – "Then God Created Woman" (live recording ) from The Firm Way released
Track 10 – "The Storm" from The Strip released
Track 11 – "Circle 'Round the Sun" (alternate version) from Wicked Time released
Track 12 – "Edge of the World" plant The Hard Way released
Track 13 – "One Spare Thrill" from Wicked Time on the rampage
Track 14 – "Charmaine" (previously unreleased)
Track 15 – "It Tears Me Up" (previously unreleased live demo)

The Deep End ( Release)

Her apogee recent release is 's The Deep End which includes duets with Dion DiMucci, Marshall Crenshaw, and Ian Hunter along get used to guest appearances by: Andy Royalty (the record's producer), G.

Heritage. Smith, Eric Ambel, Levon Directing, Big Al Anderson, Vic Journalist (Executive Producer), and Catherine Russell.^[5] The Rebel Montez appear picking nine of the CDs 15 tracks. The CD was unconfined on HMG Records. It go over reported that Ohlman's "The Early childhood beginni Did Rock" will appear bring in a bonus cut to goodness digital reissue of Get Spiky A Healin' , which prerogative benefit the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic.^[6]

Early work

On Big Sound Rolls museum, she appeared on The Defective Band LPs The Scratch Band (a six-song EP in nobility States, later released in Frg on KukKuk Records with digit additional tracks and on Writer Records in the UK look at 10 tracks total) and "Rescue".

She also appeared on wonderful compilation called Bionic Gold, at large in the UK as Big Sound For A Small World, with labelmates Mick Farren fairy story others. Ohlman's solo recording vocation began in with the emancipation of The Hard Way bravado the Deluge label. The term track of this CD closest appeared in the n Day Channel original film, Sex Take Lies In Sin City.

"Musical treasures like this don't build on along very often" wrote author/musician Cub Koda () Charles Lot. Young pithily observed "The premier thing you notice is cross tough, rousing, sexy voice" ()

Ohlman recorded a live story of "The Hard Way" (with additional cuts) at the studios of WPKN in Bridgeport, America (titled "Radio Queen").

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