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The life and times, songs and influences of rock ’n’ roller and suburban mom Heather Lynne Horton

Musician Heather Lynne Horton at her Orland Park, Illinois, home on Oct. 3, 2023.

CHICAGO — With a new album and fresh from making music at a three-day event called the Opelika Songwriters Festival in Alabama, Heather Lynne Horton was home in Orland Park Sunday and was telling me, “We do have a crazy life.”

Horton was with her 13-year-old daughter, Rain (who is also known as Willie), and the two cats who share their house, named Matilda and Bing Bong. Horton’s husband, singer-songwriter Michael McDermott, was still on the road, driving from Opelika to other performances in Florida and Georgia before heading

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