Don't get me wrong - Chrissie Hynde interview

Published Date: 07 October 2008 She started out on the London punk scene, but now Chrissie Hynde is returning to her American roots with an album influenced by country music and her home town in Ohio. Interview by Alan Light 'AMBITION is not my middle name," says Chrissie Hynde. "But I don't care – I'm up to my eyeballs most of the time goofing off. I'm kind of a hippie, so the idea was not to have goals or anything. Just moving around and observing and living life; that's necessary before you can make a record anyway." The singer is at the 23rd annual Farm Aid concert in Mansfield, Massachusetts, where she has just played a sundown set with the latest configuration of her band, The Pretenders, dominated by songs from Break Up The Concrete, their first new album in six years. Back stage, the sound of country singer Kenny... [read full story]