Joni:

Stevie Nicks:

Les Sampou was a well-known Boston folk and blues musician and then she did a sudden turnaround, releasing a killer rock album. (Broken Pieces is one of my favorite songs from it.) But it almost killed her career! The blues and folk stations would no longer play her songs and she stopped getting festival gigs — after years of supporting herself with her music. She was so proud of this album, but without air play, it was going nowhere. She couldn’t tour to support it because she didn’t have the money to hire a band. The last I heard, she went back to playing blues.