Basic Folk 36 – Melissa Ferrick

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Basic Folk is live at Club Passim with Melissa Ferrick! The indie folk songwriter genius lesbian icon joins us for our very first live recording of the podcast. We get honest conversation and live music from Melissa, who had recently moved to Cambridge, graduated grad school at Harvard and got a new teaching job at Northeastern. She played songs from her latest self-titled album as well as a new song while talking about details of the song lyrics and her life. Melissa, who claimed that she was normally asleep by the time she hit the stage (around 9pm) was charming, funny and man those songs…. they sounded amazing.
The conversation ranges from talking about the Michigan Womyn’s festival, to empathy for the driver that cuts you off to the 1650’s house she grew up in. We had a great time despite being up so late.

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