In 1973, on the day before Easter, Diane Divelbess received an unexpected visitor to her California home: Norma Tanega, the folk singer who, just a few years prior, had become famous through her ...

Norma Tanega, during her 26 June 1966 appearance on British TV’s weekly pop show 'Ready Steady Go!' At that time, the nature of Springfield and Tanega’s sexuality had to remain a secret. The music ...

Norma Tanega was an important if under-the-radar figure in the creative community of Claremont, where the singer-songwriter attended college on the cusp of the 1960s and returned in 1972 after ...

A new anthology of the ’60s folk singer suggests that she could have been a bigger star, had her label known what to do with her—and had she taken her career as seriously as her independence. No score ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

There was, despite the lack of subsequent commercial success, a second album. I Don’t Think It Will Hurt If You Smile was recorded in the UK and issued in 1971. Sales were low and it ostensibly ...