Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
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Artist: Michelle ShockedEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Music Label: Mighty Sound
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- When I Grow Up
- Hello Hopeville
- Memories Of East Texas
- Gladewater
- Graffiti Limbo
- If Love Was A Train
- Anchorage
- The L&N
- V.F.D.
- Black Widow
- Fogtown
- When I Grow Up
- Memories Of East Texas
- Yamboree Queen
- Strawberry Jam
- Graffiti Limbo
- If Love Was A Train
- Anchorage
- The L+N
- V.F.D.
- Black Widow
- Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight
- Disoriented
- Silence (Lovely Rita)
- Ballad Of Penny Evans
- Remodeling The Pentagon
- Fred's Winter Song
- Prince Of Darkness
- One Piece At A Time
- Silence (5 AM In Amsterdam)
- Campus Crusade
- Goodnight Irene
Free Music Notes for Short Sharp Shocked
Free Music Review: Where do you go...when there ain't no justice?
Hit: 5 Stars
Michelle Shocked has a tremendous talent. Thankfully, it is hard to categorize in a word or two. Her ability to stretch the boundaries between musical genres (folk, swing, rock, bluegrass) did not sit well with her one-time record company. After a handful of recordings, Shocked's label dropped her due to 'artistic incongruity' or some such nonsense. She hit them back with a lawsuit citing conditions of involuntary servitude. This disrupted her recordings being released for awhile. In the end we all lost, in a way, because such an episode disturbs the natural flow of a career, and interrupts the artistic process. Recordings become harder to find, the relationship between artist and audience is thwarted. Such is life, sometimes.
Short, Sharp, Shocked (1986) was the first of a trilogy of albums recorded for Mercury/Polygram. If Shocked were ever to fit into the quasi-structural mold of singer-songwriter, it would have been with this release. Her folk-pop roots shine in autobiographical songs like "Memories of East Texas" and "Anchorge," and in her effective interpretation of Jean Ritchie's classic "The L&N Don't Stop Herre Anymore."
Shocked is a gifted songwriter. She can write overtly political material that will not hit you over the head with overbearing self-righteousness. She never loses sight of her senses of humor and irony. Note the gracefulness of her lyrics in "When I Grow Up," "Grafitti Limbo," or "Gladewater."
That Shocked never broke out into the national consciousness like Suzanne Vega or even Fiona Apple is perplexing. Such a dilemma poses the question: "Where do you go...when there ain't no justice?"
Short Sharp Shocked Poster
The '80s folk revival yielded a diversely talented generation, some reared on the aesthetic and ideology of punk, some on their '60s singer-songwriter predecessors. They were looking for the directness of expression and connection with audience that stripped acoustic music promised. Michelle Shocked built an audience through her strident activist messages and raw, almost naked songs; she had the sincerity that the audience craved. Despite the militant cover--in which a cop is seen choking a protesting Shocked--the record is memorable for its reveries of childhood, its simple sense of hope, and Shocked's minimalist guitar and hoarse, youthful voice. --Roy Francis KastenAlternative Rock Music CDs
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