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Motherlode varies its style by playing songs
ritten by each of the women. Collie, who
aches health and drug and alcohol awareness
high schoolers in Portland, is known best for
riting songs with a sense of melody and
uthenticity. She says politics are most potent
hen delivered through music, because the
telody makes people want to listen, it makes
essages more accessible.
Fallon, a ceramic artist who lives in a farm-
ouse near Canby, Ore., is known for her bal-
adry and her ability to paint with words. Col
lie says Fallon also writes many of the groups
-omedic songs.
“Kath is wonderfully quick-witted,” she
says.
Like Collie, Janet Peterson is known in
the group as a melodic songwriter. One of
the two who live in Bellingham, she works
as a sign language interpreter during the
day. Marie Eaton, who also lives in Wash
ington and serves as dean of an alternative
college, has an ever-evolving style, and her
bandmates say she has been expanding her
composing abilities recently by learning new,
different-sounding chords.
These days, 20 years is longer than most
marriages last. Both Collie and Fallon agree
that the music is what has kept Motherlode
playing this long—and the bond of womanly
friendship is what keeps the audience coming
back.
“We’ve lived a lot of lifetimes in these 20
years,” Collie says. “Heart and soul is why we
sing, why we stay together."
Adapting the same quick-witted mind-set
that she uses to write many of Motherlode s
funnier songs, Fallon retorts: “I do it for the
money.”
celebrates its 20th anniversary
with a March 4 concert at the Hollywood Theatre,
4036 N.E. Sandy Blvd. Tickets are $14-50 in
advance, $17 at the door. They are available at It’s
My Pleasure and through Fastixx. The new CD
and video will be previewed at the show and may
be purchased afterward.
■ MOTHERLODE
eparting from the depths of Portland’s
punky east side, the retro-pop act Cadalla-
ca has taken off for a frontier not yet
explored in dyke rock with a new four-song EP,
Out West.
Unlike Motherlode, Cadallaca only has a
couple years under its belt, but the band still
emits the feeling of a unit of friends. The group
will celebrate the release of its new record at
Portlands Crystal Ballroom on March 3, the
night before the Motherlode concert.
Cadallaca, a hand that features three of
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dyke rock’s big guns—Sarah Dougher, formerly
of the Lookers; the mysteriously named “sts” of
the Haggard; and Corin Tucker of Sleater-
Kinney—first rolled onto the scene in 1998
with the album Introducing, a rocking ode to
girl groups like the Shirelles.
With Out West, the band seems to have
honed its collective song-writing skills a bit,
but we’re only treated to four songs that end as
quickly as they begin. Four seems like the right
number of tracks for a 7” record, so it’s a little
perplexing that the Kill Rock Stars label decid
ed to release Out West on compact disc.
Anyway, the EP’s
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first song, “Out West,” is raw and powerful but,
because of the fuzzy guitars and vocal delivery,
sounds like it was lifted from a P.J. Harvey
album. Cadallaca may be pioneering, but cer
tainly not in this musical territory.
The remaining three songs are where
Cadallaca shines the most. “Scarface” has a
well-iaid-out chorus and verses. Its lyrics stab
you with honesty and poignancy, like when
Dougher sings, “This isn’t my real heart, baby,
it’s just a scar.”
“The Trouble with Public Places” is the EP’s
best song. As on “Out West," Tucker’s vocals
are fuzzed out, but there’s no hint of Harvey on
this one—this track is a singalong rocker. The
stylish ballad “Fake Karaoke Machine” brings
the disc to a close.
Cadallaca doesn’t quite capture the feel of
former girl groups as much as everyone wants
them to, but their live show is worthy all the
same.
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