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OMEN HAVE long

claimed her their

own — the raw-
voiced empowering sur-
vivor, the sharply introspec-
tive poet, the tough and
brittle one with a definite vi-
sion of how things will be.

With major label support from
Chameleon and ASM Records for
her new release, a subtle stunner
called Phantom Center, it’s time
for Ferron to be embraced by a
larger audience.

While the first show this coming
Sunday at the Playhouse Theatre
has been sold out for some time, a
second show starting at 4 p.m. has
been added. Tickets are available
through Ticketmaster.

Music Now recently caught up
with Ferron.

Music Now: What took you

away from B.C. and down to

the States?

Ferron: ‘Il won a green card and
to honor it you have to live in the
States. When | opened up the map
it just seemed like why would |
live in a big city when I just came
from Vancouver and the Gulf
Islands. | decided that it would be
interesting to go the opposite, not
sea level but 7,00C feet. Not ocean
but desert and to see what hap-
pened. So it was a change. It was
alarming. It was beautiful. | wrote
Sunken City and Inside Track in
Santa Fe. | think that some of the
gentleness on the Phantom Center
album fed from being in Santa Fe
— its soft colors, a soft city.

Music Now: Are you still living

in New Mexico?

Ferron: ‘No, I’m in Seattle. Oh,
I've zoomed around. | lived in
New Mexico for a year and a half.
| lived off Cape Cod for a year and
a half. And now I'm back in Seat-

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tle.”’

Music Now: When your name
comes up it’s often prefaced

by the term ‘“‘women’s

music.’” To me you've been a
people’s musician. How do you
feel about that aspect of your
career?

Ferron: ‘I don’t know how that
worked. I was in Canada singing to
men and women. | think that my
concerns were not very pop rock
oriented so that must mean that |
am a women’s musician, And J} am

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Ferron returns

a woman. | don’t think that that
kind of ghettoizing is going to hold
up. The world is bigger and
smatier at the same time. If there is
only one category, Vl take that
ane but it’s humanism to me,
Music Now: ‘‘How do you
respond to critics who compare
you to a young Bob Dylan?
Ferron: ‘Well, how young? It’s
like I think it’s taken so long for
women to have 50 per cent of the
airwaves. [ think it’s that they just
don’t have any other women to
compare me to. They might want
to compare me to Joni Mitchell,
but she has a higher voice. It’s just
a way to tel! the audience that this
is a kind of poetry. It’s not only a
song on the radio. It’s a certain
style that we're trying to call back.
I'm also compared to Van Mor-
rison and some Springsteen stuff.
Who knows what that really

See Ferron page 23

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FERRON IS found at Phantom Center, her latest recorded
reflections. She appears live Surday at the Playhouse Theatre.

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