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Atlanta favorite Michelle Malone is too prolific a songwriter and too good a live performer to keep fans waiting an entire year between studio albums. She releases official live bootlegs to give listeners a taste of upcoming music and her roadshow experience.
She begins The Authorized Bootleg Volume 4 with "Cry Me A River," a new power folk song involving her whole touring band. Guitarist Johnny D has accompanied Michelle since the 80's and they play together so tightly at times it's impossible to tell who is playing which riff. Rhythmic expertise is provided by Atlanta veteran Linda Bolley's creative force on drums and Michelle's latest catch, powerhouse bassist Lee Kennedy.
The album includes three new Southern rock songs, a couple of old relics, crowd pleasers from her last album and one self-indulgent cover. Dolly Parton's "Nine to Five" shows off Bolley's talent on vocals as she and Michelle trade verses. The crowd really does go wild, and that's the beauty of a live recording. Nothing validates the quality of a performance like a deafening audience response.
Teen Lament is a party as usual. Michelle swings the crowd into an uproar with her rock-and-roll evangelism then hands off to the jazz-inspired bass player Matt Mangano who finishes the job with an incredible solo.
Michelle is painfully blunt on stage and the audience loves it. Her performances are spiked with commentary, as evidenced by the track dedicated to an impromptu tutorial on how to lose brain cells.
She is also a shrewd business woman. She began her record label, Strange Bird Records, in 1992 and most of her music has been self-produced. She embraces the Internet, keeping an active Web site, catering to her message board crowd, and selling promo material on E-bay. Look for a new studio album mid-2003 and plenty of touring before and after. For more information please see www.michellemalone.com