Sometimes a rabbit hole takes you in an unexpectedly personal direction.

FB prompted me with a "You May Know This Person" for a woman I didn't know. But I could see that she was friends with some of JZ's friends at Vassar, and she mentioned going to school there so I thought they might have overlapped. (I think they did.)

I clicked through her pix and saw that she was a professional singer who did classical choral work but also was in musicals, and had a long career. Then she had a post noting the 5th anniversary of her husband's death after a 27 year long marriage and referred back their 90s alt-rock band, Velvet Chain.

So I checked to see if they had any albums out on Discogs and they did, including something called "The Buffy E.P." Huh. So I checked to see what compilations they had appeared on and...they're on the Buffy soundtrack album that most of us have! The one with Rasputina and The Sundays cover of "Wild Horses" and Christophe Beck's "Close Your Eyes."

"Strong" by Velvet Chain, written by her and her husband: [link]