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YOU MAY remember (back in the infant days of The Sister Project) a little series called “Sister Jams (Not Jellies),” in which our little sister Anastasia highlighted all kinds of sibling bands and otherwise sisterly songs. Well she’s rounding-up some of the old standards from the archives, plus breathing some new life into the old series with this addition. Listen in.
THANKS TO MARION, TSP’S PAIGE IS facing a challenge this week: to put together her own personal playlist, a measuring out of her life in coffeehouse tunes, if you will. This isn’t quite as easy as it sounds, she says, but Joni and Joan figured into her mix. The hits from Paige’s soundtrack (come add yours).
STOP FORWARDING HER EMAILS composed by some anonymous person about how much women love their sisters-friends, Marion says. If you want to tell a sister you love her, fill her heart with song. Send her the song that you shared, stomach down, ankles crossed, lying on her canopied bed while you wondered aloud if someone would ever ever ever love you, or the song you learned to teach one another your dance steps, or while you practiced making out against the mirror, or driving back to college. Or…(get Marion’s full list, and add yours).
WE WERE ALERTED TO THE FACT OF MARIE OSMOND’S 50th birthday today by the day of sister-themed tunes being played on our favorite radio station, WFUV, a public radio station we stream from Fordham University in the Bronx. Nobody knows more about being a sister than Marie, sister to eight brothers. In her honor we’re playing to her last tune to make the charts, in 1995, What Kind of Man (Walks on a Woman), a song about sister-friends and the man one of them loves. What kind of man indeed? Watch out, Buster, not on our sister-friend you don’t!
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IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER THAN the combination of ball gowns and bluegrass instruments? I think not. At TSP, we can’t get enough of The Carter Sisters, and of sister music in general. Here are some of our favorites, including a birthday nod to Emmylou Harris, who turns 62 today. [click to continue…]
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IN THE GALLERIES: Photos by ALLISON MICHAEL ORENSTEIN.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
