A year ago, Laura Burhenn was part of the Bright Eyes touring band. Flash forward and the 32-year-old Burhenn has gained enough confidence to unleash her own torrent of green-minded, anti-corporate, pro-Occupy Wall Street views. An entire album’s worth, in fact, on Generals (Saddle Creek), her sonically adventurous sophomore outing as one-woman band the Mynabirds. In her previous incarnations as a solo artist and part of Washington, D.C., folk/rock duo Georgie James—and even on her soulful 2010 Mynabirds debut, What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood. Burhenn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our latest feature on her.
Burhenn: I read some good feminist/revolutionary books while writing Generals: Naomi Wolf‘s Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries, Gloria Steinem‘s Revolution From Within. And now I’m flipping back and forth between Sojourner Truth‘s biography, Jeffrey Eugenides‘ The Marriage Plot and Jane Hirschfield‘s book of poems, Of Gravity & Angels. Reading is sexy; book clubs are hot. Librarians are the Mynabirds’ pin-up girls.
Video after the jump.
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