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Tracy Nelson

Tracy Nelson (born December 27, 1944) is an American roots, blues, and country music singer-songwriter and pianist. Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, where she began her career playing folk music in coffeehouses, she moved to San Francisco in 1966 and co-founded Mother Earth, a prominent blues-rock band that became a staple of the Fillmore music scene before relocating the band to Nashville, Tennessee, where she went on to record over twenty solo and collaborative albums. Her career is distinguished by two Grammy Award nominations.

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