1. Career

2. Discography

3. References

4. External links

Career

Born in Leeds, England, in 1959,^[1][6] Timms recorded her first solo album, Hangahar (an experimental improvised film score), at the age of 19 with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks in 1980.^[1] Prior to joining The Mekons in 1986 she was in a band called the She Hees.^[1][7] She has released several other solo albums, Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat in 1988, To the Land of Milk and Honey in 1995, and a country album, Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos, for Bloodshot Records in 1998. She gave herself the name "Cowboy Sally" after the character she played on TNT's Rudy and GoGo Show.^[8][9][10] Her solo recording In the World of Him was released in 2004 on Touch and Go Records.^{[8][9][11][12]}

Timms sang "Give me Back my Dreams" on The Sixths' Hyacinths and Thistles and has recorded with Marc Almond, The Aluminum Group, Jon Rauhouse's Steel Guitar Show, the Sadies, Andre Williams, and A Grape Dope. She participated in Vito Acconci's Theater Project for a Rock Band as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 1995 and also, along with the rest of The Mekons, performed with Kathy Acker in her lesbian pirate operetta Pussy, King of the Pirates at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and elsewhere.^[6][13] Timms sang several songs on the Pine Valley Cosmonauts' The Executioner's Last Songs albums, which raised funds for the Illinois Moratorium Against the Death Penalty, and participated in Jon Langford's multi-media performance project The Executioner's Last Songs.^[14] She co-wrote the song 'Horses', which was recorded by herself and Jon Langford on Songs of False Hope and High Values; by Palace Music, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy; and by Chlorine.{{needs citation|date=August 2018}}

Timms' musical style is often placed under the genre of alternative country,^[21] and she often tours with other bands on Bloodshot Records.^[15]

Timms performs under the moniker "Monkey Double Dippey" as a member of the Chicago-based children's music supergroup Wee Hairy Beasties, which released two albums on Bloodshot Records.^[16]

Timms occasionally writes crude broadsheets on pop culture.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} She was the voice of SARA from Cartoon Network's Toonami block, voicing the first and second incarnations of the character from 1999 to 2007 alongside Steven Blum, the voice of TOM.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} In 2006(?) Timms directed the first of the five Christmas pantos hosted by the Hideout bar in Chicago, and performed in several of them.^{[17][18][19][20]}

Timms has lived in the Chicago, Illinois, area for many years, as of 2018.^[15] She was married to musician and comedian Fred Armisen from 1998 to 2004.^[21][22]

Discography

• 1980 – Hangahar
• 1988 – Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat
• 1995 – It Says Here
• 1995 – To the Land of Milk and Honey
• 1997 – Cowboy Sally
• 1999 – Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos
• 2000 – Songs of False Hope and High Values (with Jon Langford)
• 2004 – In the World of Him
• 2014 – Mole Lotta Love on the charity comedy album 2776

References

External links

• Sally Timms page at Club Mekon
• [https://archive.org/details/SallyTimms Sally Timms collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive

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