Linda Perhacs

Linda Perhacs is a California-based singer/songwriter whose first -- and for decades, only -- album, Parallelograms, is regarded as a psych-folk masterpiece, highly influential among songwriters including Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and many others. Perhacs was a purposeful but very private songwriter living on Topanga Canyon Boulevard and working as a dental hygienist when Grammy- and Emmy-winning composer Leonard Rosenman (Rebel Without a Cause and Barry Lyndon) walked into her office for an appointment. After ten more, he inquired about what ...