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The Texas Campfire Tapes (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 The Texas Campfire Tapes (CD) Album By Michelle Shocked (Artist)
1   5 A.M. In Amsterdam
2   Secret Admirer, The
3   Incomplete Image, The
4   Who Cares?
5   Down On Thomas St.
6   Fogtown
7   Steppin' Out
8   Hep Cat, The
9   Neck Tie
10   My Little Sister (Don't You Mess Around With)
11   Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg, The
12   Secret To A Long Life (Is Knowing When It's Time To Go)
13   Chain Smoker, The
14   Stranded In A Limousine
15   Goodnight Irene
 

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Dirty Linen (8/03, pp.66-83) - "...This set provides a means to thoughtfully reflect on where Shocked has been and help celebrate her creative and contractual liberation..."

Title Note

Producer Pete Lawrence recorded an impromptu performance by singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked at the 1986 Kerrville Folk Festival; his original version of the resulting album removed most of her between-song chatter, re-arranged song order and substituted new titles for a few songs. Nonetheless, the original album has an organically complete, self-contained feel that emphasizes Shocked's roots in the folk tradition a la Ramblin' Jack Elliott. The closest contemporary comparison to Shocked would be early Billy Bragg, although Shocked has always been a less overtly political singer, preferring evocative and introspective songs like her ode to San Francisco, "Fogtown." In 2003, Shocked came into possession of a copy of Lawrence's original recording and used it as the basis of her own revision of the album, titled THE TEXAS CAMPFIRE TAPES. The first disc is the album itself, pitch-corrected (the batteries in Lawrence's Walkman were dying, meaning that the original cassette recorded too slowly and therefore speeded up when played back), and the second is the unedited tape, with Shocked's original song titles and between-song explanations returned.

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