Michelle Shocked, The Texas Campfire Tapes, 1986 on Mercury / Cooking Vinyl

This was the debut album for Michelle Shocked, purportedly recorded by Cooking Vinyl founder Pete Lawrence on a Sony Walkman at an unplanned performance at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Shocked herself has called it a “bootleg” and says it was released without her permission:

My music career began as the Bootleg Poster Child. It’s such a quaint word, bootleg, conjuring images of […]

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Michelle Shocked, The Texas Campfire Tapes, 1986 on Mercury / Cooking Vinyl | Goatless

This was the debut album for Michelle Shocked, purportedly recorded by Cooking Vinyl founder Pete Lawrence on a Sony Walkman at an unplanned performance at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. Shocked herself has called it a "bootleg" and says it was released without her permission: My music career began as the Bootleg Poster Child.

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