Lisa Kindred

Lisa Kindred (1940 – November 11, 2019) was an American folk and blues singer. The UFOs in 1966. Clockwise from left: Lisa Kindred, Helena Tribuno, Ann Sternberg, Laurie Stanton Kindred, born in 1940 in Buffalo, New York, was a figure in the Greenwich Village and Cambridge, Massachusetts folk scenes of the 1960s. Club 47, The Bitter End and other venues. In that extraordinary musical era in the Village, she was influenced as well by visiting blues greats such as Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James and legendary jazz pianist/composers McCoy Tyner and Thelonious Monk. but the master tapes were stolen either by Mel Lyman, a musician in the backing band and soon-to-be leader of the cult, the [Mel] "Lyman Family," or someone who delivered them to Lyman. The album was only released four years later on Warner Bros./Reprise Records under the aegis of the Lyman Family, titled American Avatar - Love Comes Rolling Down. The album cover showed a picture of Lyman, not Kindred. In the 1967 movie The Love-Ins, the group, now with Carole Carión as the group's drummer and Lorry Stanton backing vocals, percussion, performed their song "Hello World".

Kindred formed and led the Haight-Ashbury band Ascension, featuring lead guitarist Debbie Olcese and Kindred on rhythm guitar. Kindred played and sang for many decades at the Saloon in North Beach in San Francisco and other venues. She sang on the 2009 album, Stu Blank and Friends, which included Charlie Musselwhite and Tommy Castro. In 2013, after co-producing it over four years with keyboardist Austin deLone, and joined by Dennis Geyer, Willie Riser and Dick McDonough, she released Blues and Beyond. San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joel Selvin, though not given to effusiveness, took the occasion to describe her as a "bona fide blues queen who sings like one of the greats."

Kindred died in San Rafael, California on November 11, 2019 at the age of 79 from POEMS syndrome.

Discography 1964: New Folks Volume 2 (Vanguard) 1965: I like it this way (Vanguard) 1966: The Lyman Family with Lisa Kindred: American Avatar Love Comes Rolling Down (Vanguard) 2009: BBQ Blues - Live from the Majic Lamp (Jackalope Records) 2012: Lisa Kindred Band: Steppin' Up in Class (The Saloon Recordings) 2013: Blues and Beyond (Floating Records)