She laughs uproariously when she’s reminded, and then Kristin Hersh sighs. It’s about one impressive statistic of her career: Hersh has released some 25 albums since the 1986 debut of her Rhode Island high school band Throwing Muses, formed when she was still a teenager wondering whether she should study medicine or sign a record contract.
That’s counting her latest solo release, She’s also written half a dozen books, mostly intimate memoirs which have increasingly offered their own weird music sincein 2010. The book helped win her a new generation of fans.
