Maggie Bell with Stone The Crows

‘England's Janis Joplin ' is how many writers have described Maggie Bell. If there are similarities between them it's because they are both steeped in the blues tradition going back to Bessie Smith in the 1920s. But there are other influences on Maggie's singing: she sings traditional Gaelic songs and for some years she was the vocalist with the Mecca dance-band at Tiffany's in Glasgow