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Activist and singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked describes herself as "the most sophisticated hillbilly you've ever met," a paradox that becomes explicable only when you realize that, as a child, she split time between life as an Army brat with her fundamentalist Mormon mother and step-father and her "free-wheeling late-blooming Hippie" father. It's a contradiction that appears readily in her music: even as she draws from the deep font of East Texas outlaw music she eschews any conventional label creating an iconoclastic sound that manages to be both political and intensely personal.
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