Tomboy Girl Records
2003
My Shoes
About This Album
After spending most of the 1990s in a personal and professional partnership with fellow women's music singer/songwriter Cris Williamson, Tret Fure resumed her solo career in 2001 with her fifth album Back Home. She did not comment directly on the lapsed relationship, although songs on the album were full of allusions to overcoming emotional difficulties. On her sixth album My Shoes, however, she begins with a trio of songs that seem to address aspects of her personal past and present. (That is to say, in each song, there is a narrator, speaking in the first person, who appears to describe circumstances roughly correlated to the songwriter's own biography; maybe it's all fictional, who knows?) "L.A." is addressed by the singer to a former lover as well as a place the singer used to live. Yet she insists that the "flood of ancient memories" on which she is choking after a visit to Los Angeles has nothing to do with that old relationship and takes a philosophical viewpoint: "We come into this world screaming, we go out another door/And somewhere in the middle we find home." Even more pointed is the album's title song, which follows. It is addressed not to the former lover, but to others who apparently have made harsh judgments about the relationship's dissolution without knowing the facts.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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