I heard some tracks from Penelope Houston’s CD Cut You in a local independent radio station many years ago. The voice of Penelope Houston, and the arrangements with autoharp and also mandolin in several tracks made my buy this CD, and since then I have listened to it now and then.
There are some youtube videos with songs by Penelope Houston from this period, mainly the songs with the album cover – but no live videos that show her with the autoharp.
There are two concerts frm Germany available at youtube. In both videos you can see the mandolin player.
Penelope Houston – Snakebite
“Snakebite” features in the lp Karmal Apple (1994, Normal rec)
According to discogs the mandolin eplayer with Penelope Houston was Meletios Peppas. I habe not found mor information about Melotios Peppas.
Penelope Houston – Sweetheart
This song is from the CD Cut You, and you can hear the mandolin very good in the middle of the song
The following video shows Penelope Houston playing the autoharp – although the sound is not very good in this video.
Some other videos show performances of Penelope Houstin with the band Avengers, an early Punk Band from the Los Angeles area. You can find thios videos in my playlist below.
Resources:
My youtube playlist Penelope Houston
Homepage Penelope Houston: http://www.penelope.net/