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Alice Peacock's original hometown is White Bear Lake, Minn., where she grew up swimming in the lake, manning her paper route and daring her friends to stand near the Indian burial ground next door. She was also an avid reader. "We didnt have a TV," she informs, "because my mother was convinced it would turn our brains to JELL-O, so I devoured books. I practically lived at the library. I never really traveled when I was a kid, but I could travel in books. Books allowed me to dream. I think that's partly why I became a writer."

It's also why she started the not-for-profit organization Rock for Reading, which, Alice says simply, "puts books in kids' hands." "To me, literacy is a basic human right, but one out of five Americans is functionally illiterate," she reports. "Rock for Reading raised nearly $100,000 this year for literacy and reading programs in Chicago [largely though benefit concerts featuring such high-profile performers as Lucinda Williams, Nickel Creek and Steve Winwood]. Some of the bravest people I know are adults who've admitted they can't read and are now learning how."

Reading began stoking Alice's creativity about the same time the family piano did. "I was a curious kid," she says, "and we had a piano in the house, so I figured out how to play it. I made up songs, little melodies." She admits that her early compositions were a way to get her parents' attention, no small feat in a family of six children. Genetic predisposition, too, likely played a role; Alice's maternal grandmother was a German cabaret composer and performer (her maternal grandfather was an actor, a member of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble).

But as Alice grew older, she found in music an emotional refuge: "I would lay on the bed in my room listening to the radio or my older sister's records. The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Carole King, Carly Simon, Tom Waits - I would listen to their music and cry because somehow, they knew exactly what I was feeling. They made me feel like I was not alone."

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Song	Album	Length	Played	Overall	You	Tags	Single Request
Who Am I	Who I Am	5:39	9	9 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Pop / Solo vocalist / Acoustic / Band
I'm Still Here	Who I Am	3:18	5	9 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Pop / Band / Solo vocalist
Anyone But Me	Who I Am	5:00	9	8 votes	You have to login to give your opinion about songs.	Folk / Piano / Vocal harmonies
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Artist name is|Alice Peacock
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• Spotlighted: Monday, June 16th 2008
• Songs on WWR: 14
• Total plays: 114
• Total requests: 78
• Total listens: 2946
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