Life Beyond Exile | Liz Phair
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Liz Phair took the music world by storm (https://www.lizphairofficial.com/) in the early 90s with the release of her iconic album Exile in Guyville. That, along with her self-produced Girly Sound tapes, landed her on the cover of Rolling Stone and launched a decades-long career in music. Now, a multi-Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer, mom and mentor to so many, Phair’s new memoir, Horror Stories (https://amzn.to/2MY7ulD), gives a glimpse into so many of the hidden moments that shaped her journey. In today's conversation, we touch down on these, and also explore how Liz's lens on life, meaning, music, creativity, quitting, complexity and spirituality has evolved over time.
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| 0:58.5 | So when Liz Faire was a kid, she thought she was going to be an artist, a visual artist. |
| 1:07.8 | And she played and wrote music but only on the side and only for her. She ended up in |
| 1:13.4 | Oberlin studying visual art and continuing to write and record her own music but never |
| 1:19.9 | really did anything with it and was incredibly stage fright. And when she got out, she was |
| 1:24.8 | challenged by a friend who was in a band to create some tapes of her work. So she said |
| 1:30.8 | about doing that and she made these tapes, gave them to another friend who then sent them |
| 1:36.8 | out to all of these different people and started a buzz that landed her with a record deal |
| 1:43.0 | that eventually created a record that was released in 1993 called Exile in Guyville which |
| 1:49.9 | exploded onto the music scene. Liz quickly found herself on stages of all sizes and being |
| 1:57.9 | spotlighted on the cover of Rolling Stone and that launched her career in music. That |
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