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Feb. 17th, 2006 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm bored and sleepy at work today. Writing answers gives me something to do to keep my eyelids propped up. Yay!
Who/what is "michelle shocked"? You have it/her/them in your interest list.
Hmmm. Wikipedia says very little of any importance about her. She's a musician/activist that I've adored since college; I was introduced to her by my friend Chad, and then saw her live in Columbus a few years later.
Her website
I'm rather ashamed to say I haven't actually heard her most recent stuff -- I really should fix that. However, her first three albums rocked my world. Her politics do infuse her music, and she's got some rockin' politics. I think her explorations around musical appropriation and race are especially gutsy; enough to make me nervous some times, and to make me stretch and think. And her love for various styles of american music is utterly contagious. I think my love for fiddles developed largely through exposure to her work.
I'd post lyrics or links, but I'm having trouble finding most of the ones I'd like to.
Who/what is "michelle shocked"? You have it/her/them in your interest list.
Hmmm. Wikipedia says very little of any importance about her. She's a musician/activist that I've adored since college; I was introduced to her by my friend Chad, and then saw her live in Columbus a few years later.
Her website
I'm rather ashamed to say I haven't actually heard her most recent stuff -- I really should fix that. However, her first three albums rocked my world. Her politics do infuse her music, and she's got some rockin' politics. I think her explorations around musical appropriation and race are especially gutsy; enough to make me nervous some times, and to make me stretch and think. And her love for various styles of american music is utterly contagious. I think my love for fiddles developed largely through exposure to her work.
I'd post lyrics or links, but I'm having trouble finding most of the ones I'd like to.
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Date: 2006-02-17 08:50 pm (UTC)She was brilliant. And her Robert-Palmer style video for "The Greener Side" was a hilarious send-up of sexist MTV cliche's.
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Date: 2006-02-17 09:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 01:40 am (UTC)But I agree, her musical stylings are just so fabulous. I always wanted to go to the kerrville folk festival, which she raved about.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:24 pm (UTC)Oh, damn. I knew she'd become born-again, but I'd gotten the impression she was accepting certain aspects of the tradition, and rejecting others as anti-woman. I think I'd assumed she hadn't gone homophobic. How depressing.