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Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters in Their Own Words | 
 enlarge | Creators: Marc Woodworth, Emma Dodge Hanson
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 934844
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8 x 7.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0385324073
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42082
EAN: 9780385324076
ASIN: 0385324073
Publication Date: August 10, 1998
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Product Description
This first-of-its-kind collection vibrates with the high-voltage energy of today's most exciting female singer-songwriters as they speak out, look inside, and reveal their lives.
Sarah McLachlan:
"When I sang and played I'd get completely lost in what I was doing.During that time, I was no longer this stupid, useless little ten-year-old who didn't have any friends.I was someplace else, where none of that could touch me."
Jewel:
"Fame exists in other people's minds.I can't experience my own fame at all but I experience it in other people's eyes when I look at them and see that they're scared."
Shawn Colvin:
"Giving up addiction was the springboard into adult thinking.I realized that everything was a choice.The world was an open book.Nothing was the same after that."
Sheryl Crow:
"I always pictured myself as a loner off living like a Jack Kerouac character or, worse, someone out of a Charles Bukowski book, one of those down-and-outers who works at a gas station and has no one and no family."
Lucinda Williams:
"I don't want to offend anyone, but I like to push people's buttons.While I want to appeal to people in all walks of life, I also want to get a response, make them think."
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Yay! December 24, 2000
I learned so much about all of my favorite artists in this book. This book is tastefull done (unlike Building a Mystery by Judith Fitzgerald). The author actually talked to the artist and got their perspectives on many different topics and the meanings behind their songs, which makes this book true and somewhat autobiographical. It is good to see a book also where the artists are not portrayed as glamorous. These black and white photos seem the bring the artists back down to the same level that the reader is working on. It is a really nice book and an interesting read.
Solo December 27, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
com) from Atlanta, Georgia November 14, 1998 Dear Emma and Marc, Solo is awesome, the images and narrative are both soulful and powerful. As a practicing artist I'm attracted to the imagery in your book. The photographs have a cinematic quality to them, in particular the series of photo's of Holly Palmer. When I look at the images in your book I feel spirit and emotion of the people represented through your imagery. Examples of what I'm referring to are images of Lucinda Williams (pg 290 and 300), Sheryl Crow (pg 273), Roseanne Cash (pg 246), Jewel (pg 224), Shawn Colvin (pg 39), and Sarah (pg 18)... I like the way the narrative and art work weave together like a quilt, your images make me feel good. More on Solo later... Peace, Love, and Understanding, Freddy Ciminelli
A Lilith Fair Bible! May 4, 1999
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the finest example of what beautiful photography and amazing storise can do for your soul. This book should be read by every woman in America at every age. The stories are personal, enlightening and truly amazing! There is so much to learn from SOLO... I return to it daily.
 50% truth is.......... May 2, 1999
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
Well, I am going to read the book, if I ever get a credit-card...which hopefully there's another option..( or I'll be broke before I get paid....) Anyhow, I'm sure this book is well worth reading..TO me anything by any of these great artist(s) who have inspired me in my darkest hours of frustration.. I will never give up the God given gift(s) thanks to you all!!!! (And hopefully we'll all Jam before New Year's Eve!!!!!) -C
Thank you Emma and Mark April 6, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The night I bought this book I sat down and finished the whole thing. I bought this book because I was a huge fan of Sarah McLachlan and Shawn Colvin, Jewel and Cheryl Crow, but I learned so much more from the other singers too. Sarah's interview struck me as the most down to earth, but every interview was intriguing and I just couldn't put it down. Some of the artists I had never even listened to like Ani Difranco but then next day I borrowed a friends CD and I have to say thanks to this book my CD collection has gotten a lot larger! Thank you Emma and Mark! The only bad thing about this book is......it ended! (and Tori Amos wasn't in the book, but was mentioned by Sarah McLachlan! =)So that was fine by me!!!)
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