Backed Up

Produced by Ferron and Keith Maillard and released in 1978 by her own independent label Lucy Records, it includes early versions of several of the artist's most notable songs.

After struggling to fulfill the task, she drew upon her own experience as a rape survivor and finished the song the night before the deadline.

"[4] "Testimony" has gone on to be one of her signature songs, re-recorded as the title track of her 1980 album and covered by a number of other artists.

[5] Another "fan favorite," "Misty Mountain," was written at age 22 while living in the basement of friend (and album producer) Keith Maillard.

"[7] "Ferron is an intense, moving performer, a writer of haunting love songs: a singer of hypnotic ability, a self-taught guitar stylist, and an artist who still has enough rough edges that you can say you saw her "when," said The Vancouver Sun of the same lineup a few months later.

"Testimony" has been covered by a number of artists, including Sweet Honey in the Rock, Holly Near and Ginni Clemmens, while "Misty Mountain" has been recorded by James Keelaghan and Toshi Reagon.