Word: difranco
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...rebel artists in the era of business is to figure out their focus in a period governed as much by hidden international market forces as by national political frontmen, when Michael Eisner wields as much power in their world as George W. Bush. Even on American politico folkie Ani DiFranco's latest album, Reckoning/Reveling, you see a global perspective creeping in: "I think in ancient China they kinda/figured out how the body works/but our culture is just a roughneck/teenage jerk/with a bottle of pills/and a bottle of booze/and a full round of ammunition and nothing to lose...
...America's Best" will begin in July with an issue devoted to the Arts. The debates are already under way in the hallways, with staff members arguing best novelist (Toni Morrison? David Foster Wallace? Philip Roth?), best songwriter (Ani DiFranco? Lucinda Williams? Beck?), and best comedian (now there's a long list). Over the subsequent four months, we will focus on Science and Medicine; Culture and Society; Business and Technology; and Politics and Community. CNN will air five one-hour specials on the choices. By the time we finish in November, we will have a wonderfully eclectic list, from America...
Girls playing guitars...the comparisons are easy to make: fans of Ani DiFranco and The Indigo Girls will not be displeased. There are times when they sound a little like PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea too. But the mix of folk, rap, driving acoustic guitars and the perfectly paired voices is something no one else can match. The first track on This Business (called, appropriately enough, “The First”) is a ball-grabbing, attention-snatching coming of age cut that includes lyrics about how, “They...
Girls playing guitars...the comparisons are easy to make: fans of Ani DiFranco and The Indigo Girls will not be displeased. There are times when they sound a little like PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea too. But the mix of folk, rap, driving acoustic guitars and the perfectly paired voices is something no one else can match. The first track on This Business (called, appropriately enough, “The First”) is a ball-grabbing, attention-snatching coming of age cut that includes lyrics about how, “They...
...previous albums, DiFranco's songs have been as topical as 60 Minutes segments, touching on gun control, gay rights and abortion. On one new track, Subdivision, she turns the unlikely subject of urban gentrification into a song. But while retaining its social bite, DiFranco's music also displays a growing sense of nuance and texture; she has alchemized her rants into revelations. One of her best new tracks is The Garden of Simple, a wordy, folkie ramble that recounts a series of metaphoric vignettes about freedom. "I actually wrote that one for Prince," says DiFranco. "I just wanted to write...