Other choices
Sacramento Bee
May 25,
1990
Original article: 
Among other weekend concerts, the most inviting to my ears is the double bill of singer/songwriters Michelle Shocked and John Wesley Harding 8 p.m. Saturday night at The Warfield in San Francisco.
Shocked, who has stayed largely in the shadow of her contemporary, the aforementioned Tracy Chapman, takes a lighter, funnier yet paradoxically more political approach to a similarly folky material. Feminist where Chapman is humanist, leftist where Chapman is liberal, brash where Chapman is painfully restrained. Shocked hasn’t caught on with radio programmers or audiences but she’s a hoot in concert and her musical palate is increasingly broad. Her last album added big band swing to her country/folk/blues/rock fusion.
Opening her show is another delightful young singer/songwriter, John Wesley Harding, who’s taken his name from a Dylan character and his style from Elvis Costello. His tongue-twisting lyrics cover a large patch of ground, and his band – which includes Costello’s former rhythm section – can rock hard or glide sweetly through his material. Tickets are $19. For more information: 923-2277.
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