Before I ever heard Liz Phair, I heard about Liz Phair. The Midwestern indie-rock gossip train had made the trip from Chicago, her hometown, to the Minneapolis record store where I worked in high school weeks before an advance copy of her 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, did. Listening to the men I worked alongside pick apart this woman none of them knew – whom they called an amateur and
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Liz Phair’s ‘Girly-Sound to Guyville’ Tells Full Story of an Indie Classic