31/05/2025
This is a page from Rolling Stone in Nov. 1990, which Diane posted about not long ago. The late Robert Palmer wrote the article about the 1990 album Hoodoo Train, which had songs sung by guitarists Lorette, Lisa and Diane and with Misty on drums and Su on keyboards. Lisa's last name was misspelled on the vinyl so it's misspelled in the article, and her name was sometimes not on every work she was on in other groups.
Misty and Su had their names reversed on the photos on the album. There is also a Hoodoo Train CD which did not have the misspellings. Fortunately Diane and Lorette had their names spelled right. This was the last thing we released as a group before doing other groups.
We ran into a red tape complication related to legal matters after that article came out and it became easier to start new groups or else spend forever deciding how to fix the red tape legal matter; we don't have that problem now but at this point everyone's not in the same location so we have mainly done reunions, such as gathering April 2024 at Memphis Listening Lab and the Lamplighter.
Lorette at first after the Hellcats worked in Alluring Strange with Misty and then by 1992 began her solo work. Diane moved to Chicago and did her artwork and raised a family, has a nonprofit, got a masters, started doing solo work last year and has a new album. Misty started Alluring Strange and other bands, and eventually put solo works out singing.
Before the Hellcats, Diane had been in The Odd Jobs and Lori and Lisa played with Panther Burns (with whom they continued playing a few years). The first year of the Hellcats, Linda Heck and Brenda Brewer played  rhythm guitar and drums, respectively. Bob Fordyce, Giovanna Pizzorno and Elizabeth Pritchartt were interim players in our second year.
In the early 1990s after the Hellcats, Lisa worked in experimental group Band of Ones with Bob Palmer and Randall Lyon, but their live show was in Little Rock; nobody in Memphis saw that, and then after Bob moved away, Lisa worked with Randall with Arkansas musicians live at KABF until she had to move. Some of those post-Palmer shows were seen in Memphis; there was a studio demo with Bob, Randall and Lisa, unreleased, where Bob & Randall sang. The later Band of Ones without Bob had rant shows, one of which rants Robert Gordon released.
Su worked in bands with Misty, and the Nellie Olesons and then went into city planning and working in child advocacy. Lisa, a former Memphis music journalist, had written our story up for a UK zine but the zine friend had too many problems getting the zine out so she has made it much longer for a book about more than the Hellcats. Trying to get that out is another issue.
