From her gritty 1993 debut album, Exile and Guyville, Liz Fair helped lay the foundation

for a generation of fierce independent artists.

Early in her career, she pushed for freedom and creative control, especially for female

artists, something she's finally seen become the norm in the industry.

That progress inspired her new record, The Soberish, which has her reuniting with the producer

of her first two albums, Bradwood.

Today's episode Bruce Tellum talks to Liz Fair about how her approach to recording music

isn't a technical.

She relies on the unique way she hears music and her background as a visual artist.

She also talks about how her first ever creative aspiration was to write a classic Christmas

Carol.

This is Broken Record, Liner Notes for the Digital Age.

I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Bruce Tellum with Liz Fair.

So this is your first album since you wrote your terrific book Horror Stories.

Thank you.

Yes, it is.

It's my first album in ten years, actually.

Did writing the book change how you write music?

Did it affect it at all?

I don't know that it did.

I feel like writing music affected how I wrote the book.

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