Music critics (and the Grammy suits) try to ignore the past when they raved about acts like Midnight Oil, Timbuk 3, Scruffy the Cat, and “Edie Brakell” and the New Bohemians (she was never the ‘lead singer’, it was an industry stunt to put her name in front of the band and then she became famous and the rest of the guys were dumped).
All of this coincides with the first rumblings of grunge in the mid-late 80s.
While I was in college, I worked part-time as concert security and local crew in the Raleigh, NC area.
We did the Edie Brickell/New Bohemians “Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars” show and I remember well having to help lug her heavy Stairmaster up to the dressing room of a fairly small venue (I think it was called The Ritz?).
I got to meet her, she seemed nice enough, but kind of ditzy. I believe she married Paul Simon later, correct?