Michelle Shocked - Kind Hearted Woman
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Artist: Michelle ShockedEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-10-15
Music Label: Private Music
Soundtracks:
- Stillborn
- Homestead
- Winter Wheat
- Cold Comfort
- Eddie
- A Child Like Grace
- Fever Breaks
- Silver Spoon
- The Hard Way
- No Sign Of Rain
Music reviews of Kind Hearted Woman
Music Review: Michelle Shocked's "Dustbowl Ballads" - or "Nebraska"
Rating: 5 Stars
In the fashion of Guthrie or early Dylan, this is the authentic folk music. These are tales of ordinary folk, some hard, some humorous, some sad and some hopeful. Michelle Shocked is one of the few truly gifted lyricists in popular music. She writes with an uncommon clarity and poignancy. I did find this album difficult at first. The unsettling wail on 'Stillborn' is confronting but palpably represents the anguish of one woman bringing a child into the world only to find the spirit already departed. My entry point into this world was the intensely moving 'A Child like Grace', where a lilting hypnotic melody carries the tragic tale on the slightest breeze while a shadow of illness and death is cast over the lives of the family who helplessly witness their little girl slipping away. The narrator is left to declare; Now it's a grave mistake/God in his wisdom makes/What does he care?/He fashioned us from clay. The short story form is exceptionally well represented in this powerful collection of songs. These are vignettes recalling a time when life in rural farming communities meant hardship, loneliness, isolation and deprivation. Michelle Shocked evokes scenes from the Great Depression era as well as her adolescent years in East Texas. My favourite song (because like so many, I can relate its theme of misspent youth) is 'The Hard Way'. That song should have been heard over the airwaves everywhere. An instantly appealing tune that was never realistically going to find much of an audience given the legal impasse with her record company. The Production by Bones Howe is marvellous -uncluttered and perfectly balanced. I can't imagine anyone doing it better.
Footnote: Ms Shocked has re-released Kind Hearted Woman through her own label now that she has finally won the rights to her own songs. She has also released some new material.'Deep natural' and 'Don't ask, Don't tell' are two that I can highly recommend . All her re-releases are remastered and include a generous swag of alternate versions and rarities.
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