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Creem Profiles

MARTHA DAVIS

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

March 1, 1981

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HOME: A house is not a motel.

AGE: Ask her teenage daughter.

PROFESSION: Secretary from Hell.

HOBBIES: Stealing motel keys; giving herself away like motel matches; dealing with the “Women in Rock” issue at monthly Tupperware parties; rubbing two sticks together; den mothering; cooking onstage and off; voting for that other McGovern.

LAST BOOK READ: Beyond Motel Hell by Betsey Western.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Saw Mother's Day twice without parental guidance.

QUOTE: “I’m just a mom.”

PROFILE: Out of the depths of radical Berkeley, Ms. Davis took her kiddies on the Motel trail, stopping one Saturday Night to Pogo before checking into L. A. No holiday in, though, until Capitol Records proved otherwise. Two records later, Martha and her new Motels enjoy international fame and—in Australia—marsupial bliss. It couldn’t happen to a nicer mommie.