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MICHELLE SHOCKED "The JAMS Tour" Special Guests Rachel McCartney, The Resophonics Bring Your Instruments and Jam Wednesday, September 29, 8pm
Born in Dallas, raised in Kelsey, just outside Gilmer, in East Texas’ Upshur County; living in London and Amsterdam and New York City and Los Angeles and New Orleans. . . . long before the world knew her, Michelle Shocked knew the world. First as an Army brat and then as a rambling troubadour, a truly intrepid traveler, a real East Texas rambler. She has wandered a far wider world than most of us ever will, mixing musical modes every bit as determinedly as she crossed borders, but the world she came from is just as hard for an outsider to imagine. In a career trajectory marked by radical doglegs and reversals of expectation, Michelle Shocked's Captain Swing was enough of a bump in the road to sidetrack even the most resilient fan. Her first album, The Texas Campfire Tapes (1986) – recorded exactly where it says by a “journalist” at the Kerrville Folk Festival -- was already atop the British charts by the time they bothered to tell her it had been released. Looking to restore a measure of control over this new unanticipated career, Michelle designed an elaborate trilogy to accommodate her wide-ranging musical influences. (For the continuation of Michelle's bio, go to http://www.michelleshocked.com/bio.htm. |
