Profile
Nicolette Larson
Singer + Musician
Female
Born
Jul 17, 1952
Hometown
Helena, Montana
Died
Dec 16, 1997
Death Place
Los Angeles
Genres
Pop music + Count...
Instruments
Guitar + Vocals
Performed With
Steve Wariner + N...
Nicolette Larson was an American pop singer. She is perhaps best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young, as well as her 1978 cover of Young's "Lotta Love". The song, her debut single, was a Number One Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks hit and… Read More
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Nicolette Larson.
CHILDHOOD
1952
Birth
Born on July 17, 1952.
TWENTIES
In the spring of 1977 Larson was at Ronstadt's Malibu home when neighbor Neil Young phoned to ask Ronstadt if she could recommend a female vocal accompanist, and Ronstadt suggested Larson, becoming the fifth person that day to put Larson's name forward to Young.
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Larson continued her session singing career into 1978 accruing credit on recordings by Marcia Ball, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris' (Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town) and Norton Buffalo.
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Larson's "Lotta Love" peaked at No. 8 the week of 10 February 1979, the same week the single off Comes a Time: "Four Strong Winds" a duet with an unbilled (on the single) Larson, debuted on the Hot 100 on its way to a No. 61 peak. (A track from the Comes a Time sessions featuring Larson: "Sail Away", was included on the otherwise live Neil Young album Rust Never Sleeps released in 1979.)
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1980
27 Years Old
Released as the album's lead single "Let Me Go Love" was only a peripheral hit reaching No. 35 in February 1980 — that year Larson would be heard more on the airwaves via guest appearances on "Say You'll Be Mine" by Christopher Cross and the Dirt Band's "Make a Little Magic".
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However without the boost of a major hit Larson's commercial decline was evidenced by the muted impact of her 1981 and 1982 album releases: Radioland, which was her last album produced by Templeman, and All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go even though both releases showed Larson back in strong vocal form.
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1982
29 Years Old
Through her early work with Emmylou Harris, Larson met guitarist/songwriter Hank DeVito with a resultant marriage and divorce. In the early 1980s, Larson was engaged to Andrew Gold, an affiance which ended soon after the completion of Larson's 1982 album release All Dressed Up and No Place to Go which Gold had produced.
THIRTIES
1983
30 Years Old
Larson's appearance in a touring production of the C&W musical Pump Boys and Dinettes garnered enough positive reaction for MCA Nashville to sign her in 1983: the Nashville music community was so enthused about Larson's C&W cross-over that the Academy of Country Music named her the Best New Female Vocalist in 1984 before she'd had any MCA Nashville releases.
1985
32 Years Old
In fact Larson's MCA debut Say When was not released until 1985 and the C&W career it ushered in proved anti-climactic with only one of Larson's six MCA single releases becoming a significant hit: her duet with Steve Wariner entitled "That's How You Know When Love's Right" — taken from the April 1986 album release Rose of My Heart — reached No. 9 C&W. Larson's MCA albums — produced by Emory Gordy, Jr. and Tony Brown — attracted little critical attention: in a Stereo Review critique headed "No No Nicolette" which characterized Larson as a faded Pop star for whom C&W music represented "the Last Chance Saloon", Alanna Nash opined Larson sounded as if she were reading lyrics off cue cards.
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Larson's final mainstream album release was Shadows of Love a 1988 recording made for the Italian CGD label and produced by Carlo Stretti and Ernesto Taberelli.
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1990
37 Years Old
Larson was married to legendary session drummer Russ Kunkel from 1990 until her death; the couple's daughter Elsie May Larson-Kunkel was born in 1990.
FORTIES
Larson died on December 16, 1997 in Los Angeles as a result of complications arising from cerebral edema triggered by liver failure.
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