Cassidy Diane
Memphis soul, Northern nights. Never stopped.
The Singer Who Never Stopped
Cassidy Diane cut one single in Memphis in 1972 for a label that folded before it charted; the warehouse holding the unsold copies burned in '75, and she kept one. A British DJ carried that flop to the North of England, and the North of England danced — Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca, all-nighters full of working kids who treated her like Aretha. She came for three months and stayed fifty years: club dates in Lancashire, a thirty-eight-year hotel residency in Muscat, family scattered across three continents. Then in 2021 the BBC dropped the needle on her one surviving single and, at sixty-eight, she went viral. She still flies economy and carries her own bags.
"I'm not a comeback story. I never went anywhere. Y'all just weren't paying attention."
"The 737 is just the covered wagon with better legroom."
Discography
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