Judy Belushi Pisano, who died in July, was writing and recording songs about her life and times with late husband John Belushi. They may be released.
John Belushi's widow Judy was writing songs about her life with the late comedian prior to her death this summer.Illinois festival last weekend, two children of pop culture legends were hashing out a set list. “We’ll do ‘The River’ and then ‘Good Morning Sun’ and then ‘Bones’ last,” says Ben Taylor, the rugged-looking son of James Taylor and Carly Simon. Luke Pisano — whose mother was— nods but cautions, “That’s all the time we’re going to have. The most time we have is four songs.
By 2022, Pisano had enough songs that she decided to perform a few of them at the first Blues Brothers Con, also held at the Old Joliet Prison. Before the show, though, she came down with what she thought was laryngitis. At her doctor’s urging, she decided to persevere. But onstage, Jacklin recalls, “She sang and after the first stanza, she stopped and said to the crowd, ‘I’m not going to put you through this torture.
According to Taylor, the frailty of Pisano’s voice as heard on those recordings only adds to their power. “Most of what’s there is deeply fragile, because it’s her in the last stages of her life,” he says. “But even when she would play towards the end of her life, when lot of vocal cords were paralyzed and just not working anymore, she could play a song by herself on the ukulele and hold your attention for three and a half minutes in a really compelling way.
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