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- PEOPLE, Page 99Shell-Schlocked?
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- By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Music is too important to be left to professionals. That's
- what Michelle Shocked, 27, believes. With trucks rumbling in
- the distance and crickets playing backup, her first hit songs
- were recorded on a Walkman in the Texas outdoors. Captain Swing,
- her new album out this week, is flossier: it was recorded in a
- Los Angeles studio, and five of the ten numbers have trumpets
- and saxophones tootling along. Too much polish for someone
- calling herself an anarchist? "My motivations are still
- political," says the country-folk singer, who chose her name
- after being "shell-shocked" by Reagan-era excesses. But she does
- admit that horns are the "ultimate in overproduced schlock."
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