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Sunday, February 14, 1993 The Arizona Republic E7 Vega loses inhibitions on F' nr MOTHER Pop Music Notes and upfront, while the percussion sounds like metal clanking together. "It's about how fear will make you hear things," she said. "How you'll hear the roaring sound of blood in your ear in that moment." Other tunes include In Liverpool, which includes a string sound that will remind older listeners of Abbey Road. "It was Mitchell's idea to get that kind of Beatles reference," she said. "The song was really based on an afternoon in Liverpool, when I was having a romantic fantasy about the Hunchback of Notre Dame." Yet another song, Blood Sings, is about meeting her biological father for the first time as an adult.

Vega will be earning her paycheck in Phoenix on Saturday when she performs at Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd St. Kitchens of Distinction open the show at 8 p.m. Tickets ($19 advance, $20 on Saturday) are available at the box office (244-0404) and Ticketmaster outlets. Trying on the big hat John Michael Montgomery, a top did better than we expected." With a second single and video, love the Way You Love Me, due out in March, Montgomery said his show is a blend of about half of the album's material and the music he learned early in his career tunes by such country greats as Merle Haggard and such rockers as Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Show time is 8 p.m. Thursday at Toolies, 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road. General-admission tickets are $5 in advance, $7.50 on Thursday. Reserved-seat tickets are $20. They're available at the club (272-3100) and Dillard's.

Rockers of all ages Valley Art Theatre honcho Krista Griffin thinks she has the novelty-rock double bill of the year on her hands with geriatric thrashers One Foot in the Grave opening for Valley avant-rock legends Killer Pussy at 8:30 p.m. today. Anybody care to argue with her? Tickets to the all-ages show will go for $10. The theater is at 509 S. Mill Tempe.

Phone: 829-6666. ho's the last person you'd expect to be an Avon Lady? How about Suzanne Vega? The singer-songwriter, who had a top 5 hit in 1987 with Luka (a tune ijbout child abuse), sold cosmetics in her scuffling days. "I was a very bad Avon salesman," Vega laughed. "I'd put on my military jacket. I had bad skin.

I only lasted about a month." held a succession of odd jobs after graduating from Barnard College in 1982 and before recording her self-titled debut album in 1985. "When I was a receptionist, I would book these tours, just myself and the guitar on weekends." Things changed after the album Solitude Standing, which featured Luka. Suddenly, Vega was playing to crowds beyond her expectations. 2 Her subsequent album, Days of Jdpen Hand, didn't yield a hit, nor Jioes she expect hit singles from her jcurrent record, 99.9 Her current album adds a production sound like Sgt. Pepper's to JXega's basic acoustic sound, using any i iim 'wwmwn! I 1 fw.

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