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: In conjunction with the release of Generals, I started The New Revolutionists, a portrait project honoring the wide web of American women doing important work in their own communities. In an election year when so much money is being thrown at political contests, it’s important to remember the women who are getting things done—often on shoestring or non-existent budgets—despite the powers that be. There are artists, mothers, doctors, authors and teachers. Women (like Rosanne Cash and Lizz Winstead) who make headlines and women (like Adair Eves, my own eighth-grade English teacher) who are responsible for inspiring entire generations and raising them up right.
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