ARTIST: Michelle Shocked
TITLE: Don't Ask Don't Tell
LABEL: Mighty Sound Records
GENRE: Folk
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 45min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-06-21
RIP DATE: 2005-06-11
Track List
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01. Early Morning Saturday 2:51
02. How You Play The Game 3:21
03. Don't Ask 6:31
04. Used Car Lot 4:20
05. Hardly Gonna Miss Him 2:58
06. Evacuation Route 4:29
07. Fools Like Us 3:25
08. Elaborate Sabotage 5:00
09. Don't Tell 5:32
10. Goodbye 4:00
11. Hi Skool 2:43
Release Notes:
Michelle Shocked: 3 new albums in 2005, Michelle Shocked "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell," "The Memphis Minnies," and "Baby Mine".
2005 will be a big year for Michelle Shocked, who will release a new
trilogy of albums in June on her own Mighty Sound label through Ryko
Distribution. The two-time Grammy nominee will present the "Jams Project,"
a series of producer collaborations, which continues the "American
Trilogy" concept of her first three Mercury albums.
The three new albums -- titled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," "The Memphis
Minnies," and "Baby Mine" -- chronicle a tumultuous time of life --
including her recent divorce. This isn't to imply that the songs are
bitter. In fact, to the contrary they're executed with humor, imagination,
irony and empowerment -- and in voices most have never heard from
Michelle. There's Rock and after-hours Blues and Hardcore Punk and twang
shading her sly lyrics.
The first of these albums, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," is a rock album, full
of guitar and guts, produced by man-to-watch Dusty Wakeman (Dwight Yoakam,
Anne McCue.) The story of what she's gone through is in there, but so are
a lot of other stories and emotions. Early comparisons have been drawn to
Richard Thompson's "Shoot out the Lights" with the chromatic eclecticism
of an album like Los Lobos' "Kiko".