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So says Ani on the sleeve notes of this, her first album. And what an album. I first heard it many years ago, and it didn't so much grab my attention as just gently get under my skin. Even now when I listen I hear new things. She puts such passion into her singing, lyrics and playing, ... Read review
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Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco was a star from the get-go. It just took the world a little while to catch on
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to that fact. In 1990, folksingers didn't shave their heads, wear nose-rings, or sing about the feelings in their jeans, but DiFranco did. Her bracing punky stance hit just as hard on her debut as it does now; perhaps even more so, due to its own freshness and DiFranco's uncompromising solo acoustic attack. These songs, all delivered with an absorbing passion and a palpable conviction, are the bedrock of her soaring career. Some, like the fantastic and challenging "Both Hands," still pop up in concert. --Michael Ruby
Ani DiFranco - Ani Difranco
Ani DiFranco was a star from the get-go. It just took the world a little while to catch on
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to that fact. In 1990, folksingers didn't shave their heads, wear nose-rings, or sing about the feelings in their jeans, but DiFranco did. Her bracing punky stance hit just as hard on her debut as it does now; perhaps even more so, due to its own freshness and DiFranco's uncompromising solo acoustic attack. These songs, all delivered with an absorbing passion and a palpable conviction, are the bedrock of her soaring career. Some, like the fantastic and challenging "Both Hands," still pop up in concert. --Michael Ruby
Released as always on her label, Righteous Babe, Di Franco has fashioned a so-so album that covers both the edgy break-up songs of her early career as well as her political and more funk-tinged material. Lavishly packed in an origami sleeved box (as if by the Next catalogue), this double CD of 29 songs is split between two CDs and distinct musical moods. That's the idea anyway. Di Franco fires on all cylinders, lyrically, (best lines--"TV is after all the modern day roman coliseum... and now millions sit jeering collectively cheering the bloodthirsty hierarchy of the patriarchal arrangement.--"Garden of Simple"). Musically, it's wallpaper, plain guitar plucking, bolstered occasionally by the odd stab of brass. Much of it sounds the same. However the songs are all pleasant in a low-key Me'shell N'dege Ocello kind of way. Of the two CDs, Reckoning has the strongest material-"Your Next Brave Move" and "So What" are the standouts. As a whole, it's chunky-post-pop-cum folk is a little too tired to sustain the course. Although the wild eclecticism of Little Plastic Castle was rightly praised, Reckoning/Revelling doesn't represent a revolution for this righteous babe. --Helena Dvorak
Advantages: Clear voice, clever guitar, intellegent lyrics Disadvantages: none if you like this sort of music
...go on."
So says Ani on the sleeve notes of this, her first album. And what an album. I first heard it many years ago, and it didn't so much grab my attention as just gently get under my skin. Even now when I listen I hear new things. She puts such passion into her singing, lyrics and playing, and certainly is not afraid of offending. Classing this as folk doesn't quite sum it up, there are elements of punk and rock in there too. There is just her ... ...like so much more. This album was released when she was 18, I think, and under her own record label, which is quite a thing when I think of what I was up to when I was 18. With a confessional song-writing style and a complex, beautiful sounding way of working the guitar, she starts off as she means to go on with 'both hands', a quite haunting track about what could very well be the end of an affair, or certainly a frustration with one. 'Talk to me ...
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