Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words
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ISBN: 0385324073 / Publisher: Delta, August 1998
Popular women singers and songwriters, including Jewel, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, and Sheryl Crow, talk about their music and their lives
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This first-of-its-kind collection vibrates with the high-voltage energy of today's most exciting female singer-songwriters as they speak out, look inside, and reveal their lives.Sarah McLachlan:"When I sang and played I'd get completely lost in what I was doing. During that time, I was no longer this stupid, useless little ten-year-old who didn't have any friends. I was someplace else, where none of that could touch me."Jewel:"Fame exists in other people's minds. I can't experience my own fame at all but I experience it in other people's eyes when I look at them and see that they're scared."Shawn Colvin:"Giving up addiction was the springboard into adult thinking. I realized that everything was a choice. The world was an open book. Nothing was the same after that."Sheryl Crow:"I always pictured myself as a loner off living like a Jack Kerouac character or, worse, someone out of a Charles Bukowski book, one of those down-and-outers who works at a gas station and has no one and no family."Lucinda Williams: "I don't want to offend anyone, but I like to push people's buttons. While I want to appeal to people in all walks of life, I also want to get a response, make them think."
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