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Liz Phair

“My guitar has been making the rounds on its own tour. You give someone power and what do they do?! My guitar literally took off from me”

indie singer-songwriter Liz Phair ended up taking a decade-long break from recorded music. She returns this year with her seventh studio album,, which — as we find out — was largely inspired by open-tuned explorations on her Yamaha acoustics.

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