New York-born singer Phoebe Snow achieved fame as a jazz-blues singer with an
indefinable style that she said was influenced by her early frustration playing
guitar; she used her multi-octave voice to sound like a guitar and sometimes
even a saxophone. A poet, she adapted her poems to lyrics for many songs and
recorded many works by other songwriters. She played guitar and sang in
Greenwich Village clubs and in 1972 Denny Cordell produced her self-titled debut
album, which generated the hit single 'Poetry Man'. It reached the top five on
the Billboard Hot 100 and earned her a Gra...