Sad to learn that Kate McGarrigle recently died of cancer. She and her sister Anna released many beautiful 
albums. We saw them once in concert in Boston where they were also with another sister who sang with them. They were funnier than I thought they would be -- silly, ironic, whimsical, and of course they all sounded amazing.
Still on heavy rotation: "Heart Like a Wheel," " NaCl," "Talk to Me of Mendocino," "I Eat Dinner," "Heartbeats Accelerating."
For awhile she was married to Loudon Wainwright III, which I wrote about earlier, and their children Martha and Rufus are great singer-songwriters on their own. Their McGarrigle House Christmas Album features all of them and, like every McGarrigle Sisters album, is wonderful to listen to.