Jennie Knoop

Jennie Knoop’s Music

Those of us who loved Jennie, loved her music, and sang with her, these recordings are for you. They are captured from the many-times-played tapes she made, from recordings of live events, from informal recordings Jennie made, and from recordings I made. Too many songs weren’t recorded, but are learned by heart, and live in our memories and hearts and our singing together. Some of these songs are informally recorded practice sessions, anticipating Jennie’s memorial service. Now she has passed on, on March 27, 2020, and we aren’t able to gather to celebrate her properly. Until that time comes, here is our tribute to Jennie.

Interview with Jennie in The Sun Magazine, March, 1982

Jennie Knoop’s Recordings

Rise Up My Love — CD available from Amazon

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Fly Fly Fly

Jennie recorded this CD in 1983, with singers Val Rosado and Emy Reeves Scoville; and Robbie Link on bass for Fly Fly Fly and The Secret. Stewart Walker did the mixing and recording.

All songs copyrighted 1983 by Jenovefa Knoop. All rights reserved.

Fly Fly Fly Cover
  1. Underwater Heart
  2. Dimensions
  3. The Secret
  4. Twenty-Nine Degrees Pisces
  5. Song to the Status Quo
  6. It is the Women
  7. Summer
  8. Don’t Drop the Bomb on my Mama
  9. I Will Come
  10. Fly Fly Fly

Jennie’s Homemade Tape to Laurie

Jennie made this homemade tape for fellow Venus Rising band member Laurie Lindgren, in the early 80’s. Laurie gave a (now precious) copy to Cynthia many years ago. Pictured is our women’s music group of the late 1970’s, at Laurie’s house: top row: Lynne Jaffe, Chris Smith, Val Rosado; bottom row: Jennie Knoop, Laurie Lindgren, Will Cross, Cynthia Crossen

Homemade Tape to Laurie
  1. Living Waters
  2. Race of Weeds
  3. Time is Made of Memories
  4. All the Men I Have Known
  5. April, I Almost Lost My Mind
  6. Presence of Mind
  7. Dimensions
  8. Life’s Like Music
  9. Hard and Fast Rule
  10. Since I Took You Sailing

Arrows of Light — Songs of Jennie’s

The Arrows of Light group met weekly to sing healing songs. I visited July 11, 1990, and recorded these songs of Jennie’s then. Singers were Carol Verner, Judith Gadd, Jennie Knoop, Terry, and me (Cynthia Crossen).

Arrows of Light
  1. What is Undivided
  2. Grace Come
  3. Be Called
  4. Joe’s Song with Intro
  5. Be Called Reprise
  6. Two Out of Three
  7. Race of Weeds
  8. Time is Made of Memories
  9. Follow Me Down
  10. Warrior Race
  11. Take Back the Night
  12. When I Created the World

The Goddess Revealed Art Opening, Live Recording

Jennie, with friends Emy Reeves Scoville, Val Rosado, Joe Pfister, Paula, John, and Richard, performed for the opening at The Goddess Revealed Art Show, on March 6, 1992.

  1. Find the Cost of Freedom / Warrior Race (by Jennie)
  2. Come Then to the Mountain (written and sung by Emy Reeves)
  3. The Earth is Our Mother (folk tradition)
  4. We Are A Circle (folk tradition)
  5. Joe’s Song (by Jennie)
  6. Qualbe (by Jennie)
  7. Fly Fly Fly (by Jennie)
  8. It is the Women (by Jennie)

A Choir For Jennie

In 2019, when Jennie entered hospice, Lynne Jaffe organized a choir of Jennie’s friends to sing at her memorial service, whenever that would be. In the choir are Lynne, Carol Verner, Laurie Lindgren, Lil Royal, Emy Reeves, Lori Fendell, Libby Outlaw, Cynthia Crossen. Cynthia made this informal recording of our choir practice August 29, 2019.

A Choir For Jennie, 2019 Recording Drafts:

  1. I Bid My Heart
  2. Living Waters
  3. Grace Come, Soft As Rain
  4. Warrior Race (take 3)
  5. Moments (take 3)