Shannon
Curfman is an old soul in a young person's body.
"Buddy and I were ... talking about that actually - Buddy Guy," Curfman said in a phone interview last week. "He was kind of making fun of me. ... He's like, ‘You know what? That's bullshit. ... You're 20 years old and you've already gone through this. It took me until I was almost 70 to realize half this stuff.'"
"This stuff" is the nearly inevitable souring of a major-label musician on the business of selling records. Many performers need decades of being exploited by big corporations before they realize there's a better way. Curfman, who is now 21 and will be performing this Saturday at the Redstone Room, figured it out in her teens.
(This
is the first in a series of articles looking at the components of
River Renaissance five years after Scott County voters agreed to
contribute $5 million to the effort. While that amount was relatively
small in the projects' financing, it secured $20 million in Vision
Iowa funding from the State of Iowa.)
