Lawson, Cindy
New Tricks
Cindy was fed an early diet of 60's pop as a result of her older siblings' record collection-the Beatles, the Supremes and the Ronettes were constantly on the hi fi growing up. As she grew older, she'd hide under the covers at night with the AM radio tuned to the far away WLS Chicago station where Bowie, T-Rex, the Stones, and the Sweet kept her adolescent imagination fired up and she dreamt of being - not the girlfriend of the rock star - but the rock star herself. Her 80's band, the all-female Clams broke a few barriers and a few hearts in the Minneapolis indie rock scene before disbanding in 1989. To their great surprise, their recordings are now re-emerging to rave reviews nationally and internationally and Cindy herself has regrouped with a new band that's energized by her early influences and the pure joy of playing to live audiences again. The first song on the album "How it Feels" captures the exuberance and freedom of the teen years as seen by someone reliving the joy of finally escaping the oppression of self-doubt.