Until she became a follower of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda and turned to recording devotional music, Meg Christian was a leading light of the women's music movement. Indeed, her debut album, I Know You Know, was the first to be issued by Olivia Records, an independent label devoted to the movement, in 1974. On that LP and its follow-ups, Face the Music (1977), Turning It Over (1981), and From the Heart (1984), and on the duo concert album Meg/Cris at Carnegie Hall (1983), shared with {...   [ read more ]

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Meg Hentges doesn't waste much time here letting you know which side of the sexual divide she's filing dispatches from. The first verse on this album is the striking "in every school in the Midwest/all the queers are at the bottom/just above the poor and pregnant/just below the Future Farmers," and elsewhere, with occasional help from bassist, poet, and co-lyricist Jude O'Nym, she outlines struggles to reconcile lesbianism with religion and family. But while the lyrics are intelligent and sometimes p...   [ read more ]

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Dear Companion is the debut solo release from Espers' Meg Baird. Meg's a founder of Espers and a principal songwriter therein, and it's a real pleasure to hear her away from the heady (and excellent!) confines of the group  for as layered and heavy the sounds of Espers' II is, Dear Companion is equally bare and ebullient. Meg's approach to the task was to take acoustic in hand and start singing songs she liked to sing  covers, trad numbers and even a few of her own for good measure. And that's really the...   [ read more ]

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