Michelle Shocked learns to swing in band style
by
Robert Oermann
Nashville Tennessean
April
8,
1990
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Who says intellectuals can’t dance?
They don’t come much more articulate or politically astute than Michelle Shocked, but the leftist folk singer proves on her new album that she can swing, too.
In fact, Captain Swing is the title of the new collection. It’s as far from her early folk work as Count Basie is from Woody Guthrie.
“It’s more important to play music that you enjoy, rather than what is political,” Shocked said last week during a phone interview.
“And there’s no reason you can’t do both.
“Certain things I do make people think I’m addressing their agenda. I’m not. I’m addressing my agenda.
“It’s my music.”
Shocked caused quite a ripple in the music world when she burst upon the scene with The Texas Campfire Tapes in 1987. She was not only a gifted troubadour but was also a self-described “yippie activist/feminist/anarchist.”
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