{"id":4254,"date":"2020-10-12T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2020-10-12T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T19:30:17","slug":"dory-previn-a-risky-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4254","title":{"rendered":"Dory Previn: A Risky Proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this brief extract from TIFFANY ANDERS’ fabulous DORY PREVIN feature from issue #108, we look back at her illustrious discography<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The timing of Dory Previn\u2019s new career as a singer\/songwriter could not have come at a better time. It was 1970 and female songwriters were in the ascendant, including Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill, Laura Nyro, Carly Simon and pop-ditty writer turned star Carole King. Previn\u2019s work was so very different than these artists, however. For starters, she was a woman of 45, and the fact that a male music executive took a \u201crisk\u201don a relatively unknown female artist of this age is something to behold in itself (indeed, you\u2019d be hard pressed to find that happening even in this day and age). Previn was also a divorcee with the self-awareness that comes with age; while all of her songs are heartbreakingly real, Previn never took herself too seriously, and despite her sometimes dark subject matter, she herself found her material funny, telling the BBC in \u201976, \u201cPeople would say they\u2019re too dark. Well I think they\u2019re hilarious. Get over what the subject matter is and stop thinking about suicide, and madness and incest and screaming and all those silly,vulnerable, funny, clownish things that we do in this universe and start looking at them from a different point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n