What really got me into touring full time was my first trip to the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2005. Growing up in Portland, OR, I always figured there wasn’t much for me down in Texas, but an 18-day camping festival […]
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“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” – George […]
In 2013, Jason Isbell’s Southeastern was so stunningly fantastic, that it was impossible not to declare it as my favorite record of the year, even as Brandy Clark’s 12 Stories, Ashley Monroe’s Like a Rose, and Holly Williams’ The Highway all tied for a […]
Ani DiFranco’s poetry, politics and distinct vocal delivery deservedly get most of the attention, but her musicianship on Reprieve is equally worthy of notice. Her acoustic guitar playing is mesmerizing, as usual, but her melodic fills on electric guitar and […]
Once singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco broke through to a larger audience with her 1996 album Dilate, her subsequent discs suggested the confusion of an artist who has worked to attain success on her own terms and then has mixed feelings upon […]
Ani DiFranco has long been one of America’s premier independent artists, having released sixteen full-length albums since 1990 and generally going her own way in nearly all respects. On Educated Guess, she takes that independence a step further by dispensing […]
Ani DiFranco is truly an artist of her times: a folk musician desperately eager to break from genre constrictions, a mediated image she tries to control through songs, and a strong woman whose most identifiable gift might be vulnerability. Think […]
For someone who is generally considered a folksinger, Ani DiFranco sure loves noise. A good portion of DiFranco’s twelfth studio album finds her experimenting with new sounds and instruments, while orchestrating five-minute-plus freeform jams recorded live in the studio. While […]
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