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July 13, 2007

She can do it

Anne E. DeChant's west CD has tribute to the women of

orld War I

by Anthony Glassman

Friday the 13th. It evokes dark omens and black cats and Jason Voorhees in a goalie mask.

Face it, the day has been mythically unlucky. Until now, that is.

But Friday the 13th of July is a lucky day

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for music lovers this year, as Anne E. DeChant releases Girls and Airplanes, her fifth solo album.

Filled with her signature snappy rhythms and incisive lyrics, Girls and Airplanes is certain to continue her string of regional

successes.

Of course, reviewing any Anne E. DeChant CD is one thing. Delving into what is behind the CD, however, opens up a whole new level of respect for the performer and her craft.

Everyone always wants to know how a songwriter comes up with her inspiration. DeChant says it just kind of pops up. "Really, I just pick up my guitar and if something in the music moves me to words, then I find my topic," she said. “It will be a lyric that leads me to an image and that and the music carry me through to the rest of the song."

"I am sure that this is no accident but the result of actively thinking," she continued. "You cannot write if there's nothing going on inside of you, nothing churning around."

"And there can be nothing going on inside of you if you're not gathering information by actively participating in life," she noted. "There is a time to gather information simply by living: by moving, by

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reading, by watching. Then there's a time to let that information move in and around you."

"For me, this comes when I'm alone. Lots of times when I'm driving, or fishing, something where I'm sort of in a meditative state. My brain is just sort of piecing many bits of information together," she said. "This is when an obsessive personality really comes in handy!"

On her last album, one of those bits of information resulted in "Second Class Citizen," a musical diatribe on the inequalities in the United States. It's DeChant's only song to be enshrined on T-shirts and bumper stickers with the tag line, "All of the taxes, none of the rights."

Her next big single is a tribute to the spirit of togetherness and responsibility that made America great during World War II, the title track on the new album.

"Girls and Airplanes' is a tribute to the women of the United States who, during World War II, went to work," she said. "They worked in factories building ships and planes, even piloting planes to their final destinations. It was the first time that the women of our country, en masse, walked beyond the picket fence to share on another's Continued on page 10

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