Canadian singer-songwriter Shirley Eikhard, who wrote Bonnie Raitt's 1991 hit ‘Something to Talk About,’ died on Thursday at the age of 67 due to complications from cancer.
Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who pennedEikhard's publicist Eric Alper confirmed her death to the Associated Press, telling the outlet that she passed away on Thursday due to complications from cancer at the Headwaters Health Care Centre in Orangeville, Ontario.
Eikhard wrote the blues-rock hit in 1985 and offered it to Murray, who was interested in recording it but declined after her producers rejected the song. Nevertheless, Murray went on to title her 1985 album"Something to Talk About," though it didn't include Eikhard's song.Eikhard offered the song to other artists, who all declined to record it. Years later, Raitt left a voicemail on Eikhard’s phone saying she had just recorded it.
During her career, Eikhard released 18 full-length albums between 1972 to 2021 and taught herself to play guitar, piano, bass, drums, percussion, chromatic harmonica, sax, banjo and mandolin.At age 15, Eikhard wrote the"It Takes Time," which was recorded by country singer Murray in 1971, and later became a hit in Canada. In 1972, Eikhard released her self-titled debut album.
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