Liz Phair looks back at 'Exile in Guyville' 25 years later
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. - Liz Phair had a good excuse for arriving late to an interview the other morning.
"I'm so sorry - I was at therapy," the singer said with a laugh as she slid into a booth at a restaurant near her home in Manhattan Beach. "I'm trying to be proactive about my stage fright."
An indie-rock star since her instant-classic 1993 debut, "Exile in Guyville," Phair said she'd learned through experience to control an anxiety that goes back to her childhood. But now the fear was flaring up again ahead of a tour on which she plans to perform the songs from "Guyville" as they appeared on a series of homemade cassettes she released under the name "Girly-Sound" in 1991.
"Which means I have to remember
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