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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.

Date: 2006-02-17 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minniethemoocha.livejournal.com
The last thing I remember by her came out over 10 years ago. "Prodigal Daughter" -- I loved it and it made me ache.

She was brilliant. And her Robert-Palmer style video for "The Greener Side" was a hilarious send-up of sexist MTV cliche's.

Date: 2006-02-17 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
Prodigal Daughter is one of my absolute favorites.

Date: 2006-02-18 01:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ocean-song.livejournal.com
i loved Michelle Shocked for years. Until she became born-again Christian and anti-gay. It was a shocking thing, at a concert full of feminists and les/bi grrlz in Santa Cruz, to hear her talk about findin the Lord and realizing the error of her ways. *sniff* I haven't heard anything of/about her since then, and that was a good half dozen or more years ago.

But I agree, her musical stylings are just so fabulous. I always wanted to go to the kerrville folk festival, which she raved about.

Date: 2006-02-18 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmuppet.livejournal.com
born-again Christian and anti-gay

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.

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