

The inspiration was to celebrate the 35th anniversary of this intelligent and stunning record. I'll play the record's first released song, "Worry With You." Speaking of challenges, Lowland Hum decided to reimagine Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So, shortly after the duo's first child. The record conceived by Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker faced many challenges during quarantine, but their 10th album, Path of Wellness, is coming June 11. There's new music from Portland's Sleater-Kinney. I love the music.From top left, clockwise: Sleater-Kinney, Green-House, Briars of North America, Billie Marten, Lowland Hum, Sleepersound. “I haven’t been distracted by acting or a clothing line.

She calls her current tour, which she’ll bring to (Le) Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village Thursday, her biggest since the ’90s. The former Genesis frontman “was very generous in sharing the spotlight,” says Cole, who sang duets with Gabriel, including the parts originally recorded by Kate Bush on his song “Don’t Give Up.” “The way he treated the band as a voice, as a collective voice, was really inspirational.” I flew to Mannheim, Germany, and had one rehearsal, then I was singing in front of 16,000 Germans that night.” “Peter asked me to join the tour just like that,” says Cole, 25 at the time. “Harbinger” was released as she was touring as a featured vocalist on Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live” tour.

My late 20s and early 50s,” she adds, laughing. “I don’t want to live in the past too much because I feel like I have so much to say right now, I feel urgent and prolific and there are songs flowing through me right now,” says Cole. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Cole’s debut album, “Harbinger.” She’s happy to celebrate the milestone - to an extent. She eventually realized she had been “lucky” and embraced making music again after an eight-year break following the birth of her first child. “It bothered me so much that I thought about leaving my career multiple times.” “The con is that I’m associated with only that, only ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ only the hits,” she says. The album earned seven Grammy nominations - including for producer of the year Cole produced the record herself - and Cole was everywhere, including on the landmark Lilith Fair, the female-centric tour that also featured Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Sheryl Crow and Fiona Apple.Īs she continued to release albums, she resented being known as a two-hit wonder.
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There is a call to vote, a call to speak, to unify, to not be intimidated, to be who you are.”įor many years, who Cole was was the woman who sang two smash hits - with “I Don’t Want to Wait” having the added distinction of being the theme song of angsty TV drama “Dawson’s Creek.” Both were on “This Fire,” her second album, released in 1996.

It’s not a coincidence that Cole released the album in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. In the press notes that accompanied the album release, the song is said to describe “uncomfortable memories of being a witness to abuse and then a victim of it herself,” then learning to speak up - something practically impossible for the women of previous generations. “They’re still incredibly relevant and necessary.”Īnother figure who looms large on “Revolution” is Cole’s great-grandmother Charlotte, one of the first women to be admitted to Yale’s general college. “Even though I feel anger at times, I need to find hope, and I find that the words of Martin Luther King Jr. The album, Cole says, “is also about finding empathy.” The heady album opens with “Revolution (Is a State of Mind),” featuring parts of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” which he gave Apexactly a year before his assassination - at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights. So the Massachusetts singer-songwriter, known for the mid-’90s hits “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?” and “I Don’t Want to Wait,” released “Revolution,” a socially conscious album that tackles the issues of race, gender and abuse. “But I just feel that these times are … ,” Cole tells The Post, sighing and pausing, “they’re just incredible, and I just feel that I needed to speak out. Paula Cole’s plan for 2019 was to release an album of standards, a follow-up to “Ballads,” her 2017 collection made up mostly of jazz tunes. Record scratch: Tax break for recording artists in Biden's $1.75T spending bill Adele '30' review: A voice even richer, more raw and hauntingīarstool Sports dragged for trolling 'best female singers of all time'īrazilian singer and Latin Grammy winner dies in plane crash
