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An interview with

Karen Mansfield
Despite being well known inside
the New Jersey music scene for
decades, Karen Mansfield had
never released a record of her
own until a few months ago.
Once a punk rocker with The
Bleeding Knees, she has recorded, performed, and shared stages with artists such as Jewel, the
Whirling Dervishes, Willie Nile,
Mikeal Jorgensen of Wilco, and
Erik Paparazzi of Cat Power.

Through the years, the Rutgers
University graduate has recorded several albums that were
never released for one reason
or another. Her self-titled debut
contains six songs which run
through a myriad of influences
and sounds like radio stations of
the sixties and seventies when
the charts weren’t so homogenized. It’s also well worth the
wait.

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