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Sharon Van Etten Recommends the Red
For Interview, I spoke with Sharon Van Etten, who by absolutely no coincidence whatsoever is back home in Brooklyn tomorrow night to play The Music Hall of Williamsburg:
“If you want something a little funky, then try a Provence wine,” Sharon says, somewhere en route to Toronto. “Its flavor is very barnyard. But I don’t know — sometimes I just like a weird wine.” It’s a quarter after 10 on Monday morning and we’re talking alcohol. From an outsider’s perspective, such chatter of sweet relief so early in the week might appear a bad sign for two people who are, in essence, on the clock. But I take my wine advice anyway I can get it (even if it’s on Andy Warhol’s dime).
My steward this morning is Sharon Van Etten: the Brooklyn-based (by way of New Jersey and Tennessee) singer-songwriter whose sumptuous album, Epic, appeared last autumn. She’s been on the road ever since, during those grubby winter months for getting around the world. Once I dial her number, only a minute passes before I realize I’m talking with one of those exceptionally curious people, the likes of whom we run into less frequently as we get older. In her lyrics, she stares gallantly inward. But in conversation, Sharon reaches out, traverses, pokes, cajoles. And, occasionally, she suggests a funky red wine.
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