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Aimee Mann<\/a> is tugging at her dummy\u2019s broken mouthpiece. Sitting on a red couch in her L.A. home, she explains how the monocled Charlie McCarthy doll, fashioned after ventriloquist Edgar Bergen<\/a>\u2019s puppet, became more famous than its owner in the 1930s. \u201cI had two at one point,\u201d Mann admits with a laugh, wearing a plain blue T-shirt and her trademark, thick-rimmed eyeglasses. She\u2019s completely mindful of how creepy Charlie looks with his mouth slack-jawed open as she moves it out of the frame of our Zoom call. \u201cI\u2019m the person who sees it at a flea market and I have to buy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

An eccentric artifact with its own complicated relationship to celebrity, Charlie McCarthy sounds ripped from the lyrics to one of Mann\u2019s songs. Her refined guitar pop is filled with attuned details and characters more often associated with the best short stories, as Mann applies her sharp wit to cut to the core of issues like depression, love, and disappointment. She\u2019s so good at bringing underdogs to life in her work, in part, because she\u2019s had so much practice punching up throughout her career: Mann has fought hard to chart her own course in the music industry over nearly 40 years, having endured several label misfires that informed her defiantly independent approach.<\/p>\n

Raised in Richmond, Virginia, Mann was exposed to storytelling music early on as she listened to country crooner Glen Campbell<\/a>\u2019s ambling 1969 hit \u201cGalveston<\/a>\u201d around the house. She went on to study voice and bass at Berklee College of Music in Boston and fronted an art-punk trio called the Young Snakes<\/a>. They were a prelude to \u2019Til Tuesday<\/a>, the sleek synthpop group she formed in 1983, whose aching ballad \u201cVoices Carry<\/a>\u201d became an MTV staple and Top 10 hit two years later. The millions-selling single was one of the first songs Mann ever wrote on her own.<\/p>\n

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