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Songs We Love: Fanny Walked The Earth, 'Lured Away'

"All those years of life experience, time on our instruments, having shared our history together and apart, led to the stories written about on this record," says Brie Howard.

is one of music's lost legendary entities, often invoked but seldom playlisted. The band, a vital part of the Los Angeles rock scene in the early 1970s, was the first all-woman ensemble to release albums on a major label. Sisters June and Jean Millington formed the core of the group, with June on adventurous electric guitar and Jean on the Beatles-esque bass. Formed from the velvet ashes of the sisters' teenage touring

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