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Swing Being

Los Angeles Times
May 29, 1990
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SWING BEING: Michelle Shocked says she tries to say as much through the spirit of her music as through its lyrical content. She plays tonight at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano.

ON THE RECORD “I came into the [recording] studio very much alienated. I’m not much in the record-buying tradition, and a good reason for that was, having sampled the radio, I had a real strong distaste. And I thought that was a lot to do with the technology and the producers. I didn’t really even know what a producer was. I just figured that whatever they were, they were going to try to make me sound like all the other crap on the radio.”

--Singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked

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