Word: difranco
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...both DiFranco and her audience have grown, her music has evolved as well. Lately her music has become more complex with moody, meditative undertones. Her new material on Revelling/Reckoning is a gritty yet melodic collection of songs with spare, carefully chosen accompaniment. The effect is a more fully realized marriage of poetry and music than much of her earlier work...
...them straight up, new and old, at all of her recent concerts. She prefaced her newest song, inaugurated Friday night, by reading two short poems by the poet Lucille Clifton. The new song is provocative, and incredibly verbose, jam packed with the kind of raw melodic vocal preaching that DiFranco fans have come to expect. Before reading Clifton’s poem Ani grinningly declared with typical candor, “I’ve always used poems as food, and I’ve been writing poetry before I started growing pubic hairs...
...DiFranco fans themselves have become something of a phenomenon. Like many popular musicians, DiFranco has developed a cult follwing, but hers is particularly eclectic and notorious. A friend, before leaving for the show, changed her AOL IM away message to “Me, Ani and 4,000 screaming lesbians” a reference to Ani’s core audience of non-conformist young women. But looking around the Orpheum, there indeed were an awful lot of young women in head scarves, but there were a remarkable amount of men of all ages, and more than a few women...
...continues to gain converts. Ultimately DiFranco speaks to everyone who has ever felt the crunch and pressure of society and its mores. DiFranco transports her audience to a place beyond cultural constraints, where healing and catharsis co-exist naturally, in the easy space between words and solo guitar...