She left her record label and all but forswore a career in music. To paraphrase that famous title, the more pressing question for the past eight years has really been, “Where has Paula Cole gone?” After her last album, Amen (1999), didn’t live up to sales expectations, Cole’s disillusionment with the music industry catalyzed a move to the west coast where she raised her daughter, Sky, and considered an academic career at UCLA. If she is to perform the songs everybody knows, then those songs will damn well reflect the personal changes she’s undergone since first recording them. She is not, as Joni Mitchell once famously quipped about her own songs, a “human jukebox”. Instead, Cole sits at the piano and shifts the song’s structure a bit so it’s an altogether different, introspective performance. In concert, Paula Cole still sings “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?”, her signature Top 10 hit from 1997, but these days the tune is no longer the Top 40 Adult Recurrent you remember.
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