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- Date Released: September 21, 2005
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Vocal Pop
- Label: Wolf Moon Records / CD Baby
Jazzy folk that celebrates Sapphic love and female empowerment with a positivity that's nearly unfathomable today.
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We Say...
Selling a half a million copies almost exclusively through mail order and feminist/lesbian bookstores, Cris Williamson's 1975 album The Changer and the Changed proved the commercial viability of music created solely by and explicitly for women decades before riot grrrls and Melissa Etheridge. Its success heralded the arrival of a genre known as women's music, a direct outgrowth of '70s feminism and gay liberation with performance and distribution circuits far more underground than those erected by its punk brother. Williamson's jazzy folk mirrored mainstreamers like Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, but her lyrics celebrate Sapphic love and female empowerment with a positivity that's nearly unfathomable today. Spanning 1971 to 1989, this collection downplays Williamson rock and country sides, but effusive piano ballads like "Sister" and "Waiting" suggest a happier but similarly substantial counterpart to Judee Sill and other '70s cult folkies once again revered.
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They Say...
It's not quite what the title says. The folk material dominates, leaving out some cool and hot rock numbers.
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| 01. |  |
Waterfall |
5:21 |  |
| 02. | |
Sweet Woman |
3:52 | |
| 03. | |
Sister |
4:49 | |
| 04. | |
Hurts Like The Devil |
2:59 | |
| 05. | |
Waiting |
2:57 | |
| 06. | |
Joanna |
4:21 | |
| 07. | |
Strange Paradise |
4:32 | |
| 08. | |
Live Wire |
4:44 | |
| 09. | |
Native Dancer |
4:28 | |
| 10. | |
Surrender Dorothy |
4:16 | |
| 11. | |
Like An Island Rising |
3:35 | |
| 12. | |
Soaring |
4:32 | |
| 13. | |
Grandmothers Land |
5:04 | |
| 14. | |
Suitcase Full of Sorrow |
3:37 | |
| 15. | |
Wolf Moon |
4:07 | |
| 16. | |
Mother Mother |
3:52 | |
| 17. | |
Lullabye |
2:37 | |
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Credits
- Barbara Higbie - Performer // Meg Christian - Producer // Meg Christian - Performer // Tret Fure - Producer // Tret Fure - Performer // Tret Fure - Associate Producer // Tret Fure - Mixing // Holly Near - Performer // Linda Tillery - ? // Teresa Trull - Producer // Bonnie Raitt - ? // Cris Williamson - Keyboards // Cris Williamson - Vocals // Cris Williamson - Producer // Cris Williamson - Main Performer // Lee Morgan - ? // Mary Watkins - ? // Shelby Flint - Performer // June Millington - Producer // June Millington - Performer // Woody Simmons - ? // John McCutcheon - Performer // Margie Adam - Producer // Margie Adam - Performer // Carrie Barton - Performer // Alfred Brown - Producer // Judy Chilnick - Performer // E. Marcy Dicterow - Producer // Ellen - ? // Jacqueline Furman - Performer // Marth Kimbie - Performer // Diane Lindsay - Performer // Madelyn MacKenzie - Performer // Mike Marshall - ? // Sherry McCall - Performer // Sally Van Meter - Performer // Jerry Peterson - ? // Vicki Randle - ? // Jacqueline Robbins - ? // Denny Seiwell - ? // Alan Shulman - ? // Ima Templeton - Performer // Joel Tepp - Performer // Rob Lorentz - Violin // Rob Lorentz - Performer // Emanuel Vardi - ? // Novi Novog - Performer // Suzie Katayama - Performer // Betty Rowland - Producer // Irene Young - Photography // Adrienne Torf - Performer // Jackie Robbins - Producer // Jackie Robbins - ? // Jeannette Wraite - Performer // Cam Davis - Performer // Bay Area Women's String Ensemble - ?
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