WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LIONA BOYD?

posted by James Reel

The Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd was hot stuff, in more ways than one, back in the 1980s, but perhaps she suffered from over-exposure (quite literally, in the case of the translucent toga she wore on one album cover). Gradually she drifted out of the public consciousness, and stopped performing altogether in 2003. Partly that was due to an incurable case of focal dystonia, and partly it was caused by issues in her private life. Well, she’s back, but not as a classical guitarist; she has reinvented herself as a singer-songwriter. You can read all about her here. We have exactly one old Liona Boyd CD in the KUAT-FM library, which we sample with some regularity, but it doesn’t sound like we’ll be adding her new work to the classical collection.