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Now, please meet Michelle Shocked, a hard-headed East Texas gypsy folk-rocker who puts the danger back into “radical.” Shocked is a self-avowed dissident voice whose agitprop-folk/punk style is as much a product of the San Francisco underground hardcore scene as it is of the Texas roadhouse circuit.

Her induction into the world of big-league pop is the stuff of fables. In 1986, Shocked was working at a folk festival when British producer Pete Lawrence walked up to her at a campfire one night and recorded one of her jam sessions on a Sony Walkman. That raw tape, complete with crickets and pick up trucks in the background, became a huge No. 1 alternative hit in England as <>The Texas Campfire Tapes. Now, two albums later, she’s back in the Bay Area for a pair of concerts. Saturday, she’ll perform with John Wesley Harding at The Warfield, 982 Market St., San Francisco. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $18-$19. Sunday, she’s at The Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Tickets for her 9pm show, also with John Wesley Harding, are $14, advance only. (408) 423-1336.