Michelle Shocked - traveller, troubadour, a “picker-poet,”as
they say in Texas. As a young feminist, she left Texas to travel,
Kerouac-style, and was caught up in Reagan-era grassroots
politics. Her musical career was ignited by a bootleg recording
made around a Kerrville Folk Festival campfire on a Sony
Walkman. Released in England as ‘The Texas Campfire Tapes’
without Shocked’s authority, its success abroad enticed
Mercury Records to offer the newcomer a recording
contract. - “The m...