I’ve been thinking about and listening to the McGarrigles a lot this week, since Kate’s death on Monday from cancer at the age of 63. Alice Playten passed along this link to a lovely interview with Terry Gross on NPR several years ago. And I posted my review for the Boston Phoenix of their third album, Pronto Monto, which came out in 1978 — not as thrilling as their first two, but hey, those were pretty great. As I say in the review, “Their perilously frail songs, their wobbly, imperfect voices, and their loose, sometimes cumbersome accompaniment make them a specialized taste, though in the best way possible; they appeal to people who are instantly engaged by a story that begins, “Just a little atom of chlorine, valence minus one . . .”
another eye opens 