Concrete Blonde
A new album, a new
outlook, a new life
Rv MONA B1ABI R
liiiih lltim. I of Illinois
Pam makes Ini gieat .111 Bur as < a>m letc Blonde s
|nhncttc Nap ilil.mi > knows, 11 niakt-s life a hung lull
It was emotional tin nun I that spin ted ( mu i etc
Blonde\ hicaklhfnugh multi platinum allium.
liliuniUthng, and its lie.ut-mem lung liit^. "Joey" and
( aniline But while even mote piohleiii' hale Iwsct
hand mem het s Mine recording that album, tin
outlook on then iipommg rcleav , Walkingin I omlon.
«nm to have brightened a hit.
' 1 hat was a veil had year lot me," said Napilitaiio
the Kitiuu's sm^et. bassist and piiman songwriter ot
the time s|M*tit recording HtnmiLilnif "I tealll wanted to
hide .diet that teiotd was made I lelt like. (>od. I vt
leallv i til imvlt open here It s so noun that it did well,
ho atise tl there was am tei ord that I wc mid haw tailiei
lc h ked ill a 11c iset. it wtmid haw lx ell (
But mote ptoblems weie to follow While on tout to
suptMiti the album. Napoht.uio s bai k (used liom the
. i instant weight cd bet bass Ihcu, while in Mexico ( its,
she (initial led salmonella, but wouldn't seek licatmcut
lire ,nise she doesn t like doctors W hen she I malls went
to a hospital, phvsii lans couldn't find a pulse f )nr
elm tot told bet mother that johnetle was 1*0 minutes
twav liom thing Utiiough that e\p< iieiur will keep
the band Iroin touting while slit ret U|x iates. |ohnette
slid it moU\uted hei to stick h het t leatisr limits
' 1 htse neat -death ex (Hi lent es ai e really gt eat lot
wiut priorities," she s.utl "I laid there and said, you
know. I ni 11 seals old and il I go. I don't neatly haw
the w4uiuc c t| work tx-lund me that I should haw
*vi she set out to t ie.lie B diking iti / ■ nulnn While the
.illmm showiases unit It ot the tin deep-seeded angst
that math' "Joey" anti ~< at tdint- hits tut the last
album, it alst i expands into a tew mote upbeat themes
I tti pu tts pleased with the ptogtess that I hast
made, and 1 applet iatr a lot ot things molt I in able to
be stimulated and mspiied by ititlerenl tilings mote
than |usi liemg miserable and 1 dunk it slums
Ik spilt tbev setbai ks Napthlano lias also eanetl a
nit lie as a tolc model loi tans died ot seeing Women in
tot k pollened solely as sex symbols I ikt wnalisls
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101 doesni et lipse the mipiessise sales and lex lews ol
/» 'xllfttirig. N.ipolitauo knows she s walking in tilt
light duet lion Ihc woman some tall the lies! lein.de
'ot ahvl in lot k ii loll now t an eii|oy het ability
1 think d you tan do ait that enables someone to
lot get about then das to-tlas exisletite and take them
soinewbeit else, then you sc done a sets uupoitant
tiling loi |>ettplt . she wild "1 m a lot happier now with
ms ability to do that. I think it N a gilt
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