The Watson Twins are an
American
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alternative country
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band based in
Los Angeles
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, formed by
identical twin
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sisters Chandra and Leigh Watson.
Biography
Chandra and Leigh were born on March 28, 1975, in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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and raised in
Louisville
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...
,
Kentucky
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. They attended the
University of Evansville
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then moved to the
Silver Lake
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neighborhood of
Los Angeles, California
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in 1997, where they were founding members of Slydell. They also began writing their own music and performing with other local musicians.
In 2006, the Watson Twins released their debut EP, ''Southern Manners'', simultaneously with ''
Rabbit Fur Coat
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'', their collaboration with singer-songwriter
Jenny Lewis
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. Their album, ''Fire Songs,'' was released on June 24, 2008. On February 9, 2010, they released ''Talking To You, Talking To Me'' on
Vanguard Records
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. The group again toured with
Jenny Lewis' band,
Nice As Fuck, in 2016.
The group recorded a version of the
Neil Young
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song "
Powderfinger
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" for the
American Laundromat Records
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ALR specializes in almost annual indie rock compilation albums, which have included tracks by OK Go, The Dresden Dolls, and The Watson Twins. Compilation t ...
compilation charity album titled ''Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity'', released in February 2008.
They also recorded a version of
The Cure
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song "
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" for the first soundtrack album from the
HBO TV series ''True Blood'', released in 2009.
Discography
*''
Rabbit Fur Coat
''Rabbit Fur Coat'' is an album in collaboration by Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, with The Watson Twins. It was released in the United States on January 24, 2006, by Team Love. Lewis has described the album as a "sort of soul record". The album conta ...
'' (2006) ("Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins")
*''Southern Manners'' (2006)
*''Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity'' (2008)
*''Fire Songs'' (2008)
*''Live at Fingerprints EP'' (2009)
*''Talking To You, Talking To Me'' (2010)
*''Night Covers - EP'' (2011)
*''Pioneer Lane'' (2013)
*''DUO'' (2018)
References
External links
*
The Watson Twins on MySpace* Feature story on The Watson Twins a
Country Standard TimeInterview with The Watson Twins at StereoSubversion.comThe Watson Twins at prefixmag.comPopWreck(oning) interview with Chandra Watson, Pt. IPopWreck(oning) interview with Chandra Watson, Pt. II
American country music groups
Identical twin females
Living people
Musical groups from Louisville, Kentucky
Team Love Records artists
1975 births
Vanguard Records artists
American twins
Twin musical duos
Musical groups established in the 2000s
21st-century American women musicians
Folk music duos
Female musical duos
American musical duos
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