Michelle Shocked's Bootleg This!
The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
Admission: $30
$30 advance / $35 at the door / 6pm doors / 6:30 start / seated Surviving a 13 year blacklist, activist & musician Michelle Shocked has emerged with the release of her audio memoir Bootleg This! Forty years after her legendary bootleg debut, the Grammy winner returns with a vengeance. An act of defiance -- this tour is breaking the blacklist, disturbing the silence. Slinging stories and songs set carefully like stones; a fusillade of human emotion in an air-punching Fuck Yeah. Calm, confident, controlled with a lethal focus. Balanced and battle-bitten, sharing tales of media misadventures fused by a set of select songs. "You can't take the art out of the artist. Creative labor has value; stolen art has potent power." "I knew it would work — I just didn't know it would work so well." Born in Dallas and raised in the soaking humid Piney Woods of east Texas, Michelle Shocked grew up in a large fundamentalist Mormon family before leaving home at sixteen. She put herself through the University of Texas at Austin, earning a degree in Oral Interpretation of Literature while becoming increasingly involved in political activism. Before she was a celebrated recording artist, Shocked was a…