Video: Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Goin Back to Harlan

HANK ALTOGETHER: The sad opening of the year continues with the death of Kate McGarrigle half of the McGarrigle Sisters, former wife of folkie Loudon Wainwright, III, mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Kate succumbed to cancer. She was 63. Our thoughts go out to the McGarrigle and Wainwright families.

Kate McGarrigle & Martha Wainwright - 9/16/08 ( more by Chris La Putt ) Internationally acclaimed folk singer Kate McGarrigle , best known for performing with her sister Anna , has died of cancer. She was 63. McGarrigle's brother-in-law, Dane Lanken , said the singer died at her Montreal home Monday night surrounded by her sisters, Jane and Anna, and her children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright . He said McGarrigle had been battling cancer since the summer of [...]