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"SINNER" by JOAN JETT
from: edgeboston.com
by Rick Dunn, Edge Community Editor

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Like so few of her ’80s peers, rocker JOAN JETT has hung on by her painted black nails to the idea that rock isn’t dead. Over the past 30 years, Jett, now a lithe 47, has been crafting no frills rock that is equally at home in giant amphitheaters and dark, smelly clubs. She’s one of the few icons that hasn’t transformed into a nostalgia act, evidenced by her presence on the current Warped ’06 tour. Jett was just 15 when she wrote Cherry Bomb, which became an anthem for her all-teen girl band The RUNAWAYS. Just a few years later, she spent eight weeks at number one with her career-defining I Love Rock ’N Roll. Lately, Jett’s career appears to have come full circle. She began on an indie label, selling copies of her solo debut out of the trunk of her longtime song-writing partner and producer KENNY LAGUNA’s car. Her new disc, SINNER, her first U.S. studio release in 10 years, finds her back on BLACKHEART RECORDS and paired with Laguna. For the record, Jett was the first woman in rock and roll to own her label, years before Ani Difranco even considered the idea.

Hero worship aside, how’s the disc? It’s okay.

Jett’s trademark humor and raspy vocals are on display on first single A.C.D.C., about a female lover who keeps a man on the side, where Jett declares "Les-bi in it together!" It’s the disc’s strongest, catchiest track. Carefull not to label Jett a lesbian or bisexual, as she has never made any statement of declaration.

She gets some song-writing help from out lesbian hit-maker Linda Perry on opening salvo Riddles and she teams with Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna on a number of songs. Paul Westerberg contributes Androgynous. Time and again, Jett has flexed considerable rock & roll muscle.

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