Cathy Richardson

Catherine Richardson is an American singer-songwriter from the Chicago suburbs in Illinois. She is the lead singer for the band Jefferson Starship and her own Cathy Richardson Band, and has performed the Janis Joplin parts for Joplin's former band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Biography Richardson grew up in west suburban Burr Ridge, Illinois, Before starting her music career, Richardson worked as an auto mechanic and as a cashier at her father's gas station.

The Cathy Richardson Band was voted Best Local Band in the Chicago Tribune readers poll of 1999 and best in WFLD's "Best & Worst of Chicago" viewer poll in November 2000.

She portrayed Janis Joplin in the 2001 original off-Broadway run of Love, Janis and much of the touring performances.

In 2008, Richardson became the new vocalist for San Francisco band Jefferson Starship

Discography

Studio albums

Moon, Not Banana (1993) Jessica Records Fools on a Tandem (1995) Jessica Records Snake Camp (1998) Bloody Nurse Records Buzzzed (2001) Bloody Nurse Records The Road to Bliss (2003) Cash Rich Records Delusions of Grandeur (2006) Cash Rich Records

Live album

All Excess... Live @ The Park West (1996) Jessica Records

Compilation albums featuring tracks by Cathy Richardson

Songs of Janis Joplin: Blues Down Deep (1997) House of Blues Records (song "Try Just a Little Bit Harder") Jim Peterik and World Stage (2000) Jim Peterik and Cathy Richardson (songs "Diamonds For Stones" and "From Here To Hereafter") Sweet Emotion: Songs of Aerosmith (2001) (song "Last Child") Here Come the Irish (2003) Written by John Scully and Jim Tullio, vocals by Cathy Richardson (Cathy is featured on the song "Here Come the Irish") Judgement Day, Songs of Robert Johnson (2004) (song "Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)") Folksongs of Illinois, Vol. 4 (2011) (Cathy is featured on the Woody Guthrie song "Old Chy-Car-Go") Jim Peterik and World Stage: Tigress - Women Who Rock the World (2021) (songs "Living for the Moment", "Full Moon Crazy", "The Best in Us", and "Sin to Believe a Lie") Play On (2019) Ides of March and Cathy Richardson (song "Blue Storm Rising")

Download only single

What I Am (2015) Chance Music (available through ITunes)

Side project albums and guest appearances The Juleps Cathy Richardson along with members of The Insiders Kickbutt City, USA (1998)

Joel Hoekstra Undefined (vocals on track "Spank Me") (2000)

Jefferson Starship Jefferson's Tree of Liberty (2008) Air Play (2011) Mother of the Sun (2020)

Macrodots The Other Side (2010) Macrodots Two (2015)