Biography
Meg Hentges launched her solo career in 1992 by issuing both an EP and a full album via the independent Portland, Oregon label Tim/Kerr Records. An early recording of the track “This Kind of Love,” cut during those sessions, drew the notice of Cory Robbins, co-founder of Profile Records and the man who had discovered rap acts including Run-DMC, Rob Base, and DJ Quik. Seeking a producer capable of realizing Hentges’s potential, she and Robbins enlisted Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, the songwriter recently honored with an Academy Award nomination for the title song of the Tom Hanks picture That Thing You Do. Schlesinger found himself so captivated by her material that the pair began working together in the studio. Traces of Patti Smith and Lou Reed surface in Hentges’s songs, tempered by a hint of ’80s rocker Pat Benatar. A devoted student of pop history, she has nevertheless forged a sound that remains distinctly her own.
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