Inara George on her stirring new album and the family tragedy that once defined her
Before Inara George was a musician, she spent four years as the daughter of one.
Well respected today in Los Angeles pop circles for her solo work and for her many collaborations - including the Living Sisters and the Bird and the Bee - George wasn't even 5 when her father, Little Feat frontman Lowell George, died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1979.
The tragedy - Lowell was only 34 - went some way toward defining Inara's childhood, says the singer, who grew up in Topanga Canyon with her mother. As she began writing her own songs, though, Inara became determined to establish a presence outside her father's legacy.
"I tried to be as gracious as I could about it," she said the other
