25 years on, Lilith Fair is a reminder of how one woman’s radical idea changed music

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It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. The lineup featured a who’s who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more. Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a …

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Meeting Tracy Chapman In The Spaces Between

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Tracy is wearing a plain, worn, black T-shirt, no pockets, no sly sayings, and I imagine her waking up in it, in just that T-shirt, and walking around my small basement bedroom in the Oakland split-ranch that I am sharing with 5 other grad students for $200 dollars a month each, so cold we can see our breath. Tracy is …

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