In May 2007, she released the album ToHeavenURide and in September 2009, Soul of My Soul.
In June 2005, she released a trilogy of albums called Threesome ( Don't Ask Don't Tell, Mexican Standoff and Got No Strings). Shocked continues to make music as an independent artist. She reissued expanded versions of her entire catalog, made possible by having retained complete ownership of her work when she signed with Mercury in 1987.Īn acoustic version of her song "How You Play the Game" was featured as the opening and credits soundtrack on the DVD of the 2004 documentary film Bush's Brain. Starting in 2002 with the release of Deep Natural, Shocked established her own label, Mighty Sound. In 1995, Shocked contributed an original song to the soundtrack for the film Dead Man Walking called "Quality of Mercy." In 1996, she released a studio version of an underground release ( Kind-Hearted Woman (black cover)) on the short-lived Private Music label. However, the album received little commercial notice, and Shocked parted ways with the label following an acrimonious lawsuit. Her desire to have the cover portray her in blackface in tribute to the roots of the music featured on the album drew criticism and a change in the cover art. The trilogy concluded with her 1992 album, Arkansas Traveler. Described by reviewer Chris Woodstra as an album of "swing and big-band music" that "no one expected," the album was promoted with the release of "On the Greener Side", a gender-reversed parody of Robert Palmer's 1986 single " Addicted to Love", in which topless male models performed the motions made famous by the female models in Palmer's video. The second album in the trilogy, Captain Swing, was released in 1989. Short Sharp Shocked was the first album in what Shocked later described as a "trilogy" for Mercury Records. The debut single, " Anchorage", broke into the Billboard Hot 100, but a follow-up single from the album, "When I Grow Up", did not chart. Her first US success came with the release of her 1988 debut album, Short Sharp Shocked, on college radio rotations around the country, which was met with strong acclaim from listeners. Shocked was resistant to what she saw as the machinations of the music industry, and worked to retain a degree of creative control. The album's success brought major labels asking her to sign a contract. Lawrence released the tape in Europe as The Texas Campfire Tapes (1986) (later released as The Texas Campfire Takes).
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Shocked received her first international exposure after Pete Lawrence recorded her performance on a portable tape recorder at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. I first used that name in 1984 at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco where I was arrested for protesting and demonstrating against corporations who contribute money to both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party campaigns." These people from outward appearances had survived the war quite well when in fact inside their minds were blown. In 1984, Johnston adopted the stage name "Michelle Shocked", a play on the expression " shell shocked", she said in a 1992 interview with Green Left Weekly: "The term 'Miss shell shocked' is a direct reference to the thousand-yard stare, which was a term that they first used to describe the victims of shell-shock in World War I. Johnston went through a punk rock phase, wearing a Mohawk hairdo and squatting in abandoned buildings in San Francisco, California. Her mother had her committed to a psychiatric hospital for a time during years of drug abuse. Interview republished in the Dallas Voice on April 25, 2008, as " Michelle Shocked said what? 1990 Outlines interview surfaces". Her mother was Mormon and she was raised in that faith.
Her stepfather was in the US Army and the family moved from base to base, eventually settling in Gilmer, Texas. Shocked was born Karen Michelle Johnston on February 24, 1962, in Dallas, Texas, at the Baylor University Medical Center. 3.2 Religion and views on homosexuality.
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