Which states that, ultimately, any musical thread on the Word Blog has to mention Richard Thompson at some stage.

Obviously here it is appropriate as RT and various wives and sprogs have performed, and continue to perform, both together and separately.

Following on from last night, this morning I was searching for Leonard Cohen covers and I found Teddy Thompson doing "Tonight Will Be Fine" -

this has to be one of the best covers I've ever heard!!

Remember, the Wainwrights and Cohens are now related.

The Earle's -

Steve, Stacey, Justin Townes...

David, but "home" is probably still New Zealand for the Finn clan and that means Christmas falls in mid-summer.

Admittedly, New Zealand is not quite as uncomfortably hot as neighbouring Australia at that time of year, but I expect roaring fires will still be off the menu.

I often picture the whole Finn family sitting in their front room after Christmas dinner, singing carols with Neil’s brother Tim and their various offspring, whilst the fire roars and the chestnuts roast

Martin Carty, Norma Waterson (herself part of the Watersons with siblings Mike and Lal) and daughter Eliza Carthy.

The Copper Family which goes back generations (and the contemporary offshoot The Young Coppers).

Sean, Sam and Seth Lakeman (plus Sean's other half Kathryn Roberts and Sam's wife Cara Dillon).

Chap called Bob.
Son Jakob was lead singer with the Wallflowers and now a solo artist. One of his brothers, Jesse, directed a load of old tosh films, but also did videos for Tom Waits and Public Enemy among others (and the old man too). Jesse's son, Pablo, has just released his first single.
Jesse's sister Maria was married to Peter Himmelman, another Minnesotan musician and singer.
Bob's brother, David, has been involved in music in the Twin Cities for a long time, and put together the band for Dylan when he redid some of the Blood On The Tracks songs. His two sons are both involved in music: Seth Zimmerman fronted a pretty good, garage-ish/Americana barband outfit called Tangletown (their 1998 release Ordinary Freaks is pretty good) and Luke Zimmerman has also released a solo album.
Apparently, Bob has released some albums too.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III are towering acts in their own right; Martha and (much as I don't like his music) Rufus are pretty major talents, far more substantial than the vast majority of second-generationers; Then there's Loudon's sister Sloan Wainwright, a singer-songwriter who has released seven albums, and his daughter with Suzzy Roche, Lucy Wainwright Roche (which connects the whole dynasty to the Roches!); and Anna McGarrigle's daughter Lily Lanken, a bloody good singer herself.

Phew!

I'm going to lower the game with Bros and Five Star.

Johnny and Edgar Winter. Rock n roll!

has loads of musical dynasties.

I'll raise the game again with The Greenwood Brothers from Radiohead. and The Walker Brothers.

Which goes onto include Johnny Cash and our very own Nick Lowe...

James is the only one who still appears to have a career, but brothers Livingstone (who made a pretty decent album back in the early 70s) and Alex and sister Kate all have done a bit as musicians .

Carly Simon was for a time Mrs Taylor and they produced a couple of kids, Ben and Sally, whom I've heard are musicians, but I've not actually heard anything by them.

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Clearly. Not only the hit machine that was the Jackson 5/Jacksons and Michael Jackson, who was sold a few in his day, but Janet who also sold a few in her day. Jermaine had a couple of massive hits in the '80's.

Tito's three sons (Tito, Taryll and Taj) formed 3T (geddit) who light shone briefly in the mid '90's and involved my favourite 'I'm so emotional I'm going to have to throw my rucksack on the floor' TOTP moment.

Also, the Jackson family patriarch, Joe Jackson, has his own successful career scoring hits such as 'It's Different For Girls' and 'Is She Really Going Out With Him' in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

Nice one Jo :-)

PS let's not forget the mighty Rebbie Jackson, who had a big hit with a song about a centipede...

There's well over 70 musicians in the Bach family tree, which runs from the mid 16th century to the mid 19th century.

Most notable of course was the great composer Johann Sebastian Bach who lived from 1685 to 1750, and who himself had several sons who became noteworthy musicians, with two (Carl Philipp Emanuel and Johann Christian) significant composers in their own right.

http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Family-Tree.htm

Lowell George of Little Feat had most of his album covers designed by Neon Parks. Lowell's daughter Inara, as well as being a fine singer in her own right, worked with Neon's brother Van Dyke to produce the excellent "An Invitation" album.

One of the finest and most successful bands of the 80s, Wilson Phillips, had fathers who also enjoyed a modicum of acclaim (in no way matching their daughters however)

As the sole fan of the Wakefield rockers on this blog, I feel duty bound to point out that The Cribs are all brothers, except for erstwhile guitarist Johnny Marr obviously.*

*Though he did call himself Johnny Jarman, Ramones style.

Ewan and Kirsty, and by extension Peggy Seeger

Kirsty Maccoll is the subject of the Radio 4 Great Lives programme this week. Janice Long selected her.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb

Not family, but in a loose a connection there was a great interview with Billy Bragg on the Democracy Now! programme recently.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/1/billy_bragg_british_rocker_on_norwa...