Barbara Kessler is an American folk-rock singer/songwriter. She began her career performing in clubs on Cape Cod

Cape Cod

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 and driving an ice cream truck, then began performing at open mike

Open mike

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s in Boston

Boston

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, and continues to be part of the Boston folk scene. Perhaps her best known composition is "Deep Country", which first appeared on 1994's live Stranger to this Land.

Another notable performance is her work in the 2007 PlayStation 2 Role-Playing Game "Rogue Galaxy" in which she performs the theme song "Dreaming My Way Home".

Discography

Barbara Kessler Live (1992)

Stranger to This Land (1994)

Notion (1996)

Barbara Kessler (2000)

Compilations

Fast Folk, Boston Revisited, (1992)
Big Times In A Small Town, Rounder (1992)
Follow That Road, Rounder (1993)
Grooves 2, Time Life Music, Warner Special Products (1995)
Woman's Work, Putumayo World Music (1996)
This Is Boston Not Austin,
Folk For Stroke
Big League Babe -The Christine Lavin Tribute Album, Pt. 1

Life, AAA (1996)

• "Women Of Kerrville, Vol. 2" (1999)

Respond (1999)

• "Kerville End of the Century" (2000)

Paint It Black: An Alt Country Tribute To The Rolling Stones (2011)

External links

• Official web site