View Full Version : RIP Amy Farris
UncleFester
10-03-2009, 02:55 PM
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/09/30/friends_say_fiddler_farris_fou.html
she played with the knitters (former members of x) great bluegrass fiddle.
Baconwrapped
10-03-2009, 05:46 PM
I posted this the other day in the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass thread since she had been scheduled to perform there as part of Dave Alvin's Guilty Women....
a very great loss.
Baconwrapped
10-03-2009, 05:47 PM
I don't think she was actually a member of the Knitters, though she did some sessions with those folks... and technically they're not former members of X, since X still exists.... in any case, Knitters and X are two great bands, and Farris was a terrific musician.
Fred (Texas JF Fanatic)
10-03-2009, 07:34 PM
I just saw her two weeks ago with Dave Alvin. Sad news.
Damn that's sad. Just saw her with Dave and the Guilty Women a couple months ago and she seemed so full of life. So very talented too.
R.I.P.
MaloGator
10-04-2009, 07:41 AM
Ditto on the just having seen her as a Guilty Woman. She was great that night. That's a shame, RIP.
mightyradgumbo
10-04-2009, 09:58 AM
RIP Amy, such a shame to see that talent gone for sure.
festivalgirl
12-17-2009, 07:53 PM
Amy Farris' Death Ruled a Suicide
* Posted on Dec 17th 2009 11:00AM by John D. Luerssen
The death of Amy Farris, a violinist and singer/songwriter who had collaborated with musicians like Brian Wilson to former X frontwoman Exene Cervenka, has been ruled a suicide, according to the Los Angeles Times. Farris, 40, who died on Sept. 29, was a fixture in the roots-music scene, performing alongside country artist Ray Price and onetime Blasters frontman Dave Alvin. She had allegedly battled depression for years.
An in-demand session player and touring musician, Farris relocated from Austin, Texas to L.A. earlier in the decade with eyes on a solo career. She released her debut solo disc, 'Anyway,' produced by Alvin, via Yep Roc in 2004. Farris performed on the disc 'Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women,' which was released in May 2009.
In November, in support of a Santa Monica performance to pay tribute to Farris, Cervenka told the L.A. Times, "A beautiful light went out -- it's a horrible thing. There's a huge void in everybody's life right now ... It's devastating. She was really an important musician and an important singer. Everybody wanted to work with her."
"One of the reasons I put the [Guilty Women] together was to showcase people like Amy who are incredibly talented but don't necessarily get the recognition they should," Alvin said in the same article. "We're going to keep this thing going, but now, she's not going to be part of it. It's just sad... She could do it all. She was a great string arranger. She would multitrack the violin and viola and everything else and suddenly you've got the L.A. Philharmonic behind you. She was brilliant on that."