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The new album is out! Deep Natural! It's the first new release from Michelle Shocked in five years and will be followed (at intervals) over the next year by reissues of her complete catalog in "extensive, deluxe editions!" Deep Natural (see cover art at left) comes packaged with an innovative added-value disc of contemporary instrumentals (Dub Natural). Deep Natural is a bold, beautiful album that confirms Michelle Shocked as one of the unique artistic voices of your time; Dub Natural serves notice that she is as much a musical visionary as ever. about Michelle Shocked From the beginning of her career, Michelle has demonstrated that she is one of the strongest and most widely acclaimed performers in contemporary music. With combined sales of 1.5 million units and years of consistent touring to sold out audiences coast to coast, her fan's have shown they take the world "loyal" literally. When Shocked was just 16, she ran away from her oppressive home in East Texas. She spent many years living on the edge of homelessness and squatting in abandoned buildings in New York and San Francisco. At one point, Shocked's mother wrongly committed her to a mental institution, where Shocked was forced to undergo shock therapy -- hence, her stage name. "In the cutthroat world that is the music industry, Michelle Shocked stands as somewhat of an anomaly -- someone so real, so totally herself, that she is just as comfortable singing gospel in a black church in South Central L.A. as she is talking to David Letterman. She is so sure of where she's from that she seems to be at home everywhere, a feeling that translates into her music as well -- she has experimented with influences from all over the musical map, from folk to jazz to bluegrass, without ever betraying her own musical roots." (Cynthia Joyce, Salon Magazine) visit the Michelle Shocked web site (coming soon) driveback