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Captain Swing (CD)

By: Michelle Shocked (Artist)

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Michelle Shocked Artist Snapshot:

In the mid-'80s, Shocked represented the acceptable face of the iconoclastic "anti-folk" movement, but her bare-bones acoustic sound soon gave way to a larger ideal that incorporated bluegrass, roots-rock, and even swing. Though her media star dimmed by the mid-'90s, her music remained as powerful as ever.

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DISC 1 for Captain Swing (CD) Album By Michelle Shocked (Artist)
1   God Is A Real Estate Developer
2   On The Greener Side
3   Silent Ways
4   Sleep Keeps Me Awake
5   Cement Lament, The
6   My Little Sister, (Don't You Mess Around With)
7   Looks Like Mona Lisa
8   Too Little Too Late
9   Streetcorner Ambassador
10   Must Be Luff
11   Russian Roulette
12   Must Be Luff
13   Sleep Keeps Me Awake
14   Cement Lament
15   Silent Ways
16   Streetcorner Ambassador
17   Early Morning Saturday
18   God Is A Real Estate Developer
19   Too Little Too Late
20   Hepcat
21   Barefootin'
22   Garden Salad Diplomacy
23   Poll Tax Song
24   Titanic, The - (with Dad For UK B-Sides)
25   Old Paint - (with Dollar Bill Johnston)
26   Worth The Weight
27   Fairy Tales
 

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Personnel: Michelle Shocked (vocals, guitar); Pete Anderson (electric guitar); Paul Glasse (mandolin); Don Reed (strings); Beverly Dahlke-Smith (clarinet, baritone saxophone); Zachary Richard (accordion); Steve Grove (tenor saxophone); Lee Thornburg (trumpet); David Stout (trombone); Freebo (tuba); Skip Edwards (keyboards); Domenic Genova (acoustic bass); Dusty Wakeman (electric bass); Jeff Donovan (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).

Pretty much abandoning the folkiness of her first two records, Michelle Shocked positioned her third album, 1989's CAPTAIN SWING, as a genre exercise, celebrating '40s jazz, jump blues, and swing. Truthfully, despite the presence of a full horn section on most of the songs, the album has even less to do with Louis Jordan or Benny Goodman than albums by '90s neo-swingers the likes of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Which is not to say that CAPTAIN SWING is a bad album, just that it's closer to the country-pop style of Shocked's other albums than its reputation suggests. Opening with the slightly smarmy "God Is A Real-Estate Developer," the album quickly hits its stride with the second track, "On the Greener Side." A surprise MTV and radio hit, this is probably the best song Shocked ever recorded. Though the following nine tracks aren't quite this good, they're largely pleasant and tuneful.

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