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Threesome
Released: Jun 14, 2005
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Released: Jun 14, 2005
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Say what you will about her, but Michelle Shocked is one musician who is obviously in it for art and not commerce, and while most folks would consider it commercial suicide to release three albums...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Described by its creator as "Short Sharp Shocked all grown up," Don't Ask, Don't Tell doesn't bear all that close a surface resemblance to Michelle Shocked's first studio album beyond the fact that...
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Got No Strings
Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Despite her many musical mood swings over the years, here's something no one was expecting -- Michelle Shocked recording a family-friendly set of songs from classic Walt Disney movies with a...
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Arkansas Traveler - BONUS TRACKS
Released: Sep 14, 2004
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Released: Sep 14, 2004
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Michelle Shocked created 1992's Arkansas Traveler as an album that dealt with sociology as much as music, and in many respects it's the sociology that makes the record problematic. A set of songs...
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Captain Swing - EXPANDED
Released: Mar 16, 2004
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Released: Mar 16, 2004
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Corporate hellcat and musical wunderkind Michelle Shocked followed up her pivotal Short Sharp Shocked (1986) with Captain Swing (1989) -- the second entry in what she planned as a trilogy. The two...
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Short Sharp Shocked - EXPANDED
Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Released: Sep 23, 2003
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Michelle Shocked is asked in the song "Anchorage," "What's it like to be a [New York City] skateboard punk rocker?" Perhaps it takes a flashback like Short Sharp Shocked to answer fully the more...
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Deep Natural
Released: Apr 2, 2002
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Released: Apr 2, 2002
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Shocked goes indie for this set of songs on faith, love, and understanding. In a way, it's her most personal album, a collection of ruminations on the people and places of her life. It incorporates...
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Mercury Poise: 1988-1995
Released: Nov 5, 1996
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Released: Nov 5, 1996
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With a title that plays on Graham Parker's corporate-venomous song and EP Mercury Poisoning, the disc skims a dozen layers of feminist-folk-punk cream from three eclectic albums (folk-rock,...
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Texas Campfire Takes - EXPANDED
Released: 2003
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Released: 2003
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When producer Pete Lawrence recorded Michelle Shocked on his Sony walkman in 1986, the two unknowingly created a field recording that would break Shocked into the spotlight and eventually get her...
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