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Artist: Michelle Shocked
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Product Summary
Label: Palmetto Records
UPC: 00820692100624
Release Date: 9/14/2004
Buy.com Sku: 61706702
Item#: MP3CR9
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. 33 RPM Soul With Pops Staples - (with Pops Staples) ~ Michelle Shocked
2. Come A Long Way ~ Michelle Shocked
3. Secret To A Long Life - (with The Band) ~ Michelle Shocked
4. Contest Comng - (with Red Clay Ramblers) ~ Michelle Shocked
5. Over The Waterfall - (with Hothouse Flowers) ~ Michelle Shocked
6. Shaking Hands - (with Uncle Tupelo) ~ Michelle Shocked
7. Jum Jum Crow - (with Taj Majal) ~ Michelle Shocked
8. Hold Me Back - (with Gatemouth Brown) ~ Michelle Shocked
9. Strawberry Jam - (live, with Doc Watson) ~ Michelle Shocked
10. Prodigal Daughter - (with Alison Krauss) ~ Michelle Shocked
11. Blackberry Blossom - (live, with Norman Blake) ~ Michelle Shocked
12. Weaving Way - (live, with The Messengers) ~ Michelle Shocked
13. Arkansas Traveler - (live, with Jimmy Driftwood) ~ Michelle Shocked
14. Woody's Rag - (live, with Dollar Bill) ~ Michelle Shocked
15. Worth The Weight - (with Dan Crary) ~ Michelle Shocked
16. Come A Long Way ~ Michelle Shocked
17. Blackberry Blossom - (with The String Cheese Incident) ~ Michelle Shocked
18. Weaving Way ~ Michelle Shocked
19. Down In The Arkansas - (with Jimmy Driftwood) ~ Michelle Shocked
20. Introducing Dollar Bill ~ Michelle Shocked
21. C-H-I-C-K-E-N - (with Dollar Bill) ~ Michelle Shocked



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel include: Michelle Shocked; Doc Watson, Alison Krauss, Pops Staples, Taj Mahal, Uncle Tupelo.
Michelle Shocked is nothing if not a roots-conscious artist. She initially made her name as a hard-traveling neo-folk troubadour a la Woody Guthrie, early Bob Dylan, et al. After her mainstream breakthrough with the relatively pop-oriented CAPTAIN SWING, she used her newfound celebrity to further explore her roots on the follow-up, ARKANSAS TRAVELER. The 1992 album is essentially an Americana sampler, wherein Shocked teams up with different rootsy artists on each cut. Bluegrass is a heavy influence, and she's joined variously by Doc Watson, Alison Krauss, and other bluegrass greats. On other cuts, she partners with everyone from the Band to Taj Mahal.
While many artists would have made a trad-folk covers album out of such an endeavor, Shocked was talented enough to come up with a brace of original songs that captured the flavor of her influences, while remaining original and distinctive. The 2004 reissue of AT adds seven bonus tracks to the deal, including live cuts, demos, and alternate versions, effectively expanding Shocked's all-American saga.

 
Artist Overview
In the mid-'80s, Shocked represented the acceptable face of the iconoclastic "anti-folk" movement, but her bare-bones acoustic sound soon gave way to a larger ideal that incorporated bluegrass, roots-rock, and even swing. Though her media star dimmed by the mid-'90s, her music remained as powerful as ever.

Artist Influences
Billy Bragg | Bob Dylan | Doc Watson | Jean Ritchie | Joan Baez | Joni Mitchell | Phil Ochs | The Band | Woody Guthrie

Artist Contemporaries
Brenda Kahn | Chris Chandler (Folk) | Cindy Lee Berryhill | Indigo Girls | K.D. Lang | Lach | Lucinda Williams | Phranc | Roger Manning | Suzanne Vega | Tracy Chapman | Victoria Williams

Artist Followers
Ani DiFranco | Casey Scott | Mary Gauthier | Sheryl Crow | Susan McKeown | The Story (Folk)


 

Compilation Appearances
Turn Of The Decade-Ben & Jerry
New York-On The Road 1986-87
Child's Celebration Of Folk Music
Child's Celebration Of Song 2
Women In Rock
Shout Sister Shout Tribute To Sister (Bonus Tracks)
Creole Bred: tribute To Creole & Zydec
Beautiful Dreamer
Mflp's 20th Anniversary Collection
Folk Playground
Beginner's Guide To Folk Music (eng)
Dead Man Walking / O.s.t.(w/ Bonus DVD)
Give Us Your Poor

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 07/25/2005
Original Release Date : 1992
Catalog ID : 6
Label : Mighty Sound
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00820692100624

 
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