ALIX OLSON: Built Like That

Alix Olson

Built Like That

© 2001 subtle sister productions (656613146224)

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a feminist spoken word folky hip-hop extravaganza, backed by such musical talents as Catie Curtis and Pamela Means.

tracks

1 Eve's Mouth
2 Daughter
3 Cute for a Girl
4 Built Like That
5 Deadbeat Daddy
6 America's On Sale
7 Checking My Pulse
8 Subtle Sister
9 The Compliment
10 Dear Mr. President
11 Warriors
12 Myth
13 Sticks
14 Hit It Girls
15 Armpit Hair (Mammally Factual)
16 Witches
17 Picnic Table
18 Popcorn and Laughter
19 Gender Game
20 Criminal
21 Cunt Cuntry
22 I Believe

notes

Alix Olson was a member of the 1998 Nuyorican National Championship Slam Team, as well as winner of the 1999 OutWrite National Slam. Since then, she has been a touring folk poet and spoken word artist, performing nationally and internationally at hundreds of colleges, clubs and festivals, including the FalaDura Festival in Porto, Portugal, the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam's Gay Games, and the LGBT Cultural Arts Festival in London, England.


Alix has been featured in publications such as Girlfriends Magazine, Curve Magazine, the Advocate, Lesbian Review of Books, and most recently on the covers of both Lambda Book Report and Ms. Magazine. She has appeared on Oxygen television, In the Life, CNN, and WXPN's World Cafe with David Dye, as well as local radio stations around the country.

Alix has shared the stage with such artists/activists as Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Christine Lavin, Catie Curtis, Howard Zinn, Ntzoke Shange, Leslie Feinberg, Alix Dobkin and many others. Alix has headlined events such as The National Organization for Women's national conference, National Lesbian Summit, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.


Alix's 2001 summer tour took her nation-wide, including shows with Bitch and Animal, the Butchies, and appearing at WIMINFest, Sisterspace, Ladyfest(s), WAMfest, Oregon Country Fair, the Michigan Womyn's Festival, and countless other events.

Alix's 2002 year-round tour is once again sending her around the country, including colleges, festivals such as the National Women's Music Festival. Check www.alixolson.com for tourdates.

"Built Like That" is Olson's debut CD, released by Feed the Fire Productions, a Brooklyn, NYC based for-progress organization run by Alix Olson and co-pilot Neeve. Feed the Fire is dedicated to educational programming for youth, through spoken word outreach.

"Built Like That " features such musical guests as Catie Curtis, Pamela Means, Chris Pureka, Trina Hamlin, and Larry Campbell.



To get this cd AND the book, Bulit Like that: the word, together go <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alixolson4">here</a>

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  • SHE RULES
    author: HALLZCOM

    I SEEN HER ON MIND TV AND NOW I'M HOOKED.I'M STARTING TO BUY EVERYTHING SHE GOT

  • author: Papillon

    Wow! I am in love! I have shared this cd with my girl friends and we all love it. Thanx Alex for saying what you have to say.

  • author: T grl

    Alix has opened up new paths for me and has made me stronger as a female in such a male dominated society... this cd rocks. Alix is such an inspirational poet. Luv her stuff!!

  • Every woman on earth needs to hear this
    author: Amanda

    The song "Eve's Mouth" is incredible. Every woman on earth should hear this song and thank Alix Olson for speaking out for the things that all people, especially women, struggle through. This song is amazing. Every time I hear it, I feel like screaming it at the top of my lungs. Thanks to this amazing artist and her amazing song.

  • Alix is amazing, her CD is my therapist!
    author: Dyke woman

    Built Like That is raw, real, and powerful. I listen to it when I am feeling like no one else in the world understands and it helps me through my day.

  • Alix rocks my world!!!
    author: kitty

    This has got to be one of the most amazing CD's I have ever heard in my life! I'm a lesbian mother of 3 beatiful children. This is generally not a CD to listen to with them. The message is powerful, but the wording is not child-friendly. It's not meant to be. Because of that I put this CD in my car to listen to it when I was running errands while the kids were in school. I come home and find myself wishing I had more errands to run just so I can get back in my car and keep listening to this CD. Just amazing.

  • Inspiring and fearless!
    author: jess

    These poems are raw and completely fearless. Alix is firey, insighful, and gutsy. She shies away from nothing in her poetry in Built Like That. Her images are compelling, and beautiful in their honesty. In the same vein as Andrea Gibson and Anna Roland, this is Slam Poetry that fires you up and shouldn't be missed.

  • it's like goosebumps and giggles
    author: jillian

    very difficult to figure the right words to say just how fantastic this cd is. it's art, baby, you have to hear it to know what i mean. ;)

  • Play at top volume!
    author: pafolk

    Lyrics of stunning beauty, the soul of Emma Goldman and the mouth of a sailor! Nothing gives me more hope in a Dubya administration than Alix's strength and message!

  • Makes me happy to know this c.d. exists
    author: Lisa

    The songs contained in this album are exactly the kind of lyrics that I am yearning to hear. The lyrics are sharp and to the point also containing a kind of tenderness existing in some of the songs.

  • Orgasmic !!!
    author: Stefanie

    Alix Olson is mind-blowing !!! Buy her cds, learn her words, get empowered and then go see her perform LIVE ! An experience not to be missed by any true fan. :)

  • author: CD Baby

    Feminist spoken word folk with a hip-hop twist. A touring folk poet and spoken word artist, performing nationally and internationally at hundreds of colleges, clubs and festivals. A red-hot, fire-bellied, feminismo-spewin' volcano.

  • Absolutely GREAT!better than I could have imagined!!
    author: Pati Pawloski

    great lyrics,gets right to the point!and,that is???Puts you in the MOOD!WOW,wow,wow!!!!!!Thank you,,for thinking up what I never put into words!

  • Love this, very different and creative

    This cd rocks if you are looking for different. Definitely not the normal, average, run of the mill music. This artist is clever and creative and not afraid to voice her thoughts.

  • Slam poetry perfected and reality in your face.
    author: Megan Stanley

    Excellent. Slam poetry perfected and reality in your face. Alix Olson brings reality alive.

  • ALIX IS AMAZING!!!
    author: ~Heather~

    I love this CD. It has to be one of my favorites! I prefer this one over "Independance Meal". Alix is truly on fire in this CD! You'll laugh, you'll cheer and you will fall in love with this truly incredible poet. :)

  • the awesomest cd ever
    author: Chris

    i love the cd!!!! it has to be one of the best i've ever heard. everything about it is awesome! everyone should buy this cd!!!

  • Anthems for Women everywhere
    author: Jade

    This CD is nothing short of fabulous. Even if you're not a lesbian, it's hard not to enjoy the clever lyrics and catchy music. I loved it.

  • Makes me glad to be who I am!
    author: Gina

    This woman has a phenomenal way with words! She says things we all want to say. Eve's Mouth made me look at the womyn in my life and ask, "Are you living the life you want?" Several of the tracks made me want to scream "Yes, that's it!" I played it several times through the moment I got it in the mail! It can't seem to find it's way OUT of my cd player...

  • Alix is wicked!
    author: Lauren

    Alix is a kick ass artist! Her work is meaningful and important. Every woman should hear what she has to say... This CD just makes me feel great about the woman/dyke/feminist that I am. BUY THIS CD

  • Awesome CD worth listening to
    author: Mary

    I felt this cd was excellent. When it arrived in the mail I was excited because I had heard many good things about Alix, but never heard her poetry/music before. I put in my cd player and figured I'd listen to a song or two. After the first two tracks I was hooked! I sat there and listened to the whole thing, all 22 tracks, then replayed the whole thing again! Alix's poetry is so stirring... you just want to scream "RIGHT ON!" during some of the tracks.

  • alix has refueled my fire within lesbian feminism
    author: Kate

    this c.d is amazing. full of passion and politics. it has injected more fuel in my fire for lesbian feminism. Each time i listen (and i've been doing it non-stop) i learn something more about the what Alix's words are saying as they explode into my ears.

  • this cd is great!
    author: Ashley

    this cd is so good! there are lyrics that express the way how many women feel. eve's mouth is a great twist to the faerie tales of our youth, yet still provides entertainment. this cd is awesome i highly recomend it!

  • Amazing, inspirational, politically and socially relevant and fun!
    author: RP

    I absolutely love this CD. So many fantastic songs with amazing lyrics, esp. "Eve's Mouth", "America's on Sale" and my favorite, "Sticks". Listening to them, I often feel as though I'm tapping into something larger than just that moment of just sitting by myself, listening to music. There are also some really fun songs like "Cute for a girl" and "Armpit hair" whose clever music and words actually made me laugh out loud. All in all, the CD is very powerful and moving, capturing the spirit of what is means to be a lesbian, a woman, a feminist or even just a socially concious person in American Society.

  • author: Crystal

    I LOVED the CD... Alix is an awesome lyricist!

  • Awesome CD!
    author: T!

    This is an awesome CD. The shear number of tracks is outstanding. We are loving every minute of it!

  • absolutly amazing
    author: Christine

    Alix's Built Like That left me empowered and inspired. I was left speechless because she had said it all for me. An amazing poet, lyricist, guitarist and singer I would highly recommend this album to anyone openminded and to anyone closeminded who wants to know what's really going on.

  • A must have empowering CD
    author: Rose

    This is an must have empowering CD that will make you think, laugh, and want to fight for change.

  • Alix kicks Ass
    author: Michele in Modesto, CA

    Wow, a mind of her own, and not afraid to express her wisdom. Two years ago my NAU daughter was raving about ALIX at poetry slams. A week ago I heard this album and had to buy one for myself, me, a 54 year old Mom. This album is contagious. MORE, More, more!

  • Awesome!
    author: Rachel

    This cd is straight up slammin'! If you're into spoken word at all, even the least little tiny bit, check this album out. Olson has an interesting angle on feminist, lesbian, and political themes. There are some comedic songs on here too, like Armpit Hair...cracks me up every time. And I LOVE this line from Dear Mr. President: "I'd give the U.S. a bad rap / I'd kiss every fine Iraqi dyke on the front lines / fuck national pride I'd go to their side / I prefer cross national desire to crossfire any day!"

  • GREAT CD!!!!!!
    author: A-Rae

    I love this CD. It has to be one of the best that I have heard in a long time. The lyrics are real and deep. I recommend this CD to everyone on the planet!!!!

  • mind boggling, delicious, inspiring and so damn real!
    author: Emily Huber

    This cd had me listening to it non stop, once it ended I put it on again because its soooo real and i love that about it. This CD hit the spot perfectly. Thanks!

  • tremendous stuff
    author: joe

    inspiring, happy, gritty, powerful. plenty of tracks with plenty of manifesta-type block rockin beats.

  • Wow
    author: Alison Smith

    This cd is great for anyone who loves good poetry, This cd is an amazing representation of how i feel.

  • Absolutely Inspiring
    author: Ali

    Built Like That is a fantastic album, totally inspiring, and truly amazing. Once I put it in my CD player, it didn't come back out for over two solid weeks. Listen, listen, listen!

  • FemTastic! This cd is the outcome of a brilliant and amazing person.
    author: Bridget from Ohio

    FemTastic! If you are looking to be inspired and filled with words, put this cd on and I assure you, you won't be able to fight the power that rises in you from the words that are spit with fire from the belly in this cd.

  • transforming the world one word at a time
    author: Kristen

    Maintaining a balance in expressing injustice and celebration through her creative and honest words is what Alix Olson does best on Built Like That. I just keep the cd on repeat!

  • poltics + poetry + alix olson = chilling! amazing! wonderful!
    author: Lauren

    "Built Like That" by Alix Olson is a collection of overtly political poetry with a leftist/feminist slant. Alix doesn't mince words or mask commentary - she's straightforward, explicit, and refreshing! This album is compelling and confrontational - Alix forces listeners to engage with the politics in their daily lives.

  • blew me away!
    author: kel

    wow!!! i'm not sure what exactly to say. i was absolutely blown away! listening to this cd has meant so much to me, inspired me, stirred up emotions i hadn't felt in years... and created a new spark that will stay with me for a very long time!! i've let several ppl listen to it since buying it and they're all saying the same thing, "this cd ROCKS!" thank you!

  • Fabulous
    author: Sarah

    The CD I bought has stayed in my CD player since the moment that my mail arrived that day. I can't get enough of it. The CD empowers me, and makes feminism a reality, not just a fantasy. I have shared it with many of my friends who have said that it is a bit "over the top" for them. But who cares? I love it, and I am so happy that I bought it. Thanks!!

  • Alix Olson Rocks My World
    author: Mags

    I saw Alix when she came to my campus (Earlham College) a few weeks ago. She is amazing in person and on this great CD! If you are at all a radical, a feminist, gay, straight, bi, lonely, loud, liberal, bitchy, happy, proud, or anything at all, you will love this. She writes from the soul and she makes it fun, guaranteed to make you think and smile...

  • bloody fantastic
    author: Kasey

    Amazing. Hysterical. Lively. Pissed-off. Sexy. Wonderful. Highly-recommended.

  • if you like Alix...
    author: arugula

    if you like this cd you would like some of rachel hackett's stuff. All too clear is the cd. This cd is kick ass and i could listen to it all day. Alix Olson puts out her ideas in a poetic and interesting way.

  • Alix Olson: Pirate of Poetry
    author: Beth Hendricks

    This cd is the most profound and personal poetry that i have heard in a long time. Alix performed this Cd in my hometown of Akron, Ohio. I highly recommend some quiet time with Alix. She blew me out of the water...

  • Slam poetry set to thoughtful and funky background music.
    author: Mark Roemer

    Olson is a world famous spoken-word-to-music poet. She has toured the world and performed her very woman-centric poetry to audiences at festivals, colleges, and shows of her own. Sometimes graphic, and sexual, and always intense and amazingly crafted, Olson’s poetry is shockingly personal. And beautiful! Definitely not for the conservative listener, “Built Like That” is provocative, extremely intelligent, and funny as hell. She deals with many topics: discrimination, alcoholism, being from the mid-west, game shows, love, lust, the religious right, and being an out-spoken and very out lesbian. 22 well thought out tracks entertain and inspire open minded thought from the first track to the last.

  • Strong, in your face, dangerous for main stream radio, but perfect for web-radio
    author: Sound Angel Production - Web-radio show

    Alix was on my web-radio show in it's early stages. She helped set the stage for the callibor of artists that followed her. Her work is definetly NOT for the weak minded. Grab a copy and be liberated!

  • totally assume keep up the good work
    author: Mark E

    the writeng is totally right on and her word play is fun and has a bite I really hope theres more in the works and that its put out to all adiances not just the hard core dikes cuss I'm a guy aannd I loved every bit of it I laughed a lot and said "right on " the rest of the time GO GIRL GO

  • Succulent Wild Womyn who Rocks My World!!!
    author: Kerri Blow, Political Activist

    I bought the CD after a concert here at Florida State Univ. I play it everywhere because it is so inspiring. Her works keep me going when politics has drained me. Every womyn needs a copy of this CD!!

  • fast, witty, word-perfect, utterly original
    author: John Frame, Queer Radio Dj, Brisbane, Australia

    Alix Olson should be a lesbian's dream entertainer.. Fast, witty, word-perfect and utterly original, this cd should be in every feminist's home

  • a Frida Kahlo of our time.
    author: Rey

    aaah! Alix Olson a true poet. kinda like a Frida Kahlo of our time. Witty, thought provoking, and exquisitely funny poetry.Listening to tracks 1,4,7 and 15 just made me want to listen to more songs like that.Still a work of art worth recommending to friends

  • Listen to her now!
    author: Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist, Creator Of "dykes To Watch Out For"

    Alix Olson is a red-hot, fire-bellied, feminismo-spewin' volcano. Listen to her now!

  • bridges the gaps between generations of feminists
    author: Patricia Ireland, President; Now

    Alix Olson bridges the gaps between generations of feminists

  • powerful, poignant, fearless, and unflinching
    author: Pamela Means, Singer/songwriter

    Alix Olson is the living embodiment of a wake-up call for this generation... powerful, poignant, fearless, and unflinching in its outspokenness, a much needed dose of medicine for the soul

  • quite simply, extraordinary
    author: Howard Zinn

    Alix brought me to my feet. She is an ingenious poet, a brilliant performer, a funny person and serious thinker. She is, quite simply, extraordinary

  • a riffing sparkplug of tremendous political, social, and sensual magnitude
    author: Catie Curtis, Singer/songwriter

    Alix Olson is a riffing sparkplug of tremendous political, social, and sensual magnitude

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