“Sometimes we music writers do wrong by Kristin Hersh: we can steal her words. The press around her last album, *Sunny Border Blue*, honed in on a few lines that made unusually (for her) naked admissions about troubles in her life-- her custody battle over her eldest son, or the break-up of the Throwing Muses-- wrapped up as conveniently as when John Lennon first sang, "I don't believe in Beatles."”
