Any of you people know way too much about Michelle Shocked?
I recall her old acoustic ditty Anchorage and have the Short Sharp Shocked album it's on and always enjoyed it. But, I never bothered to keep up with her other releases. Recently though I stumbled across a 2 disc release of hers from 2002 I believe called Deep Natural / Dub Natural and was really intrigued. The first disc is a mix of murky blues and folk melodies with a bit of gospel, ambient and soul tossed in along with the proverbial kitchen sink; the second one is dub only in the broadest sense with little in the way of traditional dub rhythms but plenty in the way of dropping out the vocals and playing with the tapes. Whatever you wanna call it, it comes across as a fairly unique listen.
Anyway, this disc has me curious about what else she has put out there that I have missed. Anyone a fan and have any suggestions of other interesting releases from her?
She's one very talented lady but I haven't listened to much...
...of her since she had her run back in the late 80s and early 90s. I have the aforementioned Short, Sharp, Shocked and Arkansas Traveler, but that's the end of it. I do know that Dub Natural was being sold by itself only at her live shows, but she later added it to the previously released Deep Natural (both in 2001) as a double, which you now have.
I think she made a big mistake with that MTV video "On the Greener Side" from that Captain Swing record. It just wasn't representative of her best work and was rather silly I think. I know a number of people were completely turned off by it, and they had no idea about her other music.
Swish.