napoleon (live) www.righteousbabe.com i had a dream last night that i was in an animal emergency hospital. i was there with my parents, but we weren't there for an animal emergency, they had this big indoor pond and we were watching frogs swim around in it and um, leap and stuff. then suddenly there is this big commotion and this woman comes in and she's crying and being all upset, and my mom looks over and says, 'look, it's Ani DiFranco.' and i'm like, 'Mom! She totally heard you say [...]
A Love This True - Jamie Anderson The Gay Marriage Song - Addie Brownlee Taxi Ride - Tori Amos In Or Out - Ani Difranco Ban Marriage - The Hidden Cameras Never Getting Married - Roy (Many of these songs are from the great resource Queer Music Heritage . Head over there to hear a ton more.) [...]
Ani DiFranco is the Angelina Jolie of indie folk - - like the actress, she has a bad-ass attitude, a loyal fan-base, and luscious lips. DiFranco proves herself as a talented song-writer with her brilliant lyrics and mesmerizing acoustic guitar riffs. She has been writing and performing for over 15 years, and has published hundreds of songs. Recommended. Add this Band on Myspace [...]
Me and Bruce are back at it again. This time we have compiled a 22 song list (get it, two 2s?) of duets we dig. Happy March 1st!!! Bruce's duets: U Got The Look - Prince w/ Sheena Easton It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash w/ June Carter Cash Sin City - Beck w/ Emmylou Harris It Takes Two - Marvin Gaye w/ Tammi Terrell This Mess We're In - PJ Harvey w/ Thom Yorke Some Velvet Morning - Lee Hazlewood w/ Nancy Sinatra [...]
As I twiddle my thumbs, waiting for Armchair Apocrypha, I thought I'd share some songs from ladies Andrew has worked with throughout his career. Besides some loose connections, we have Bird singing, bell ringing and even whistling in the background. Emily Loizeau ~ London Town (sung with Bird) Katharine Whalen ~ The Funnest Game (worked with Bird back in the day with the Squirrel Nut Zippers) Ani DiFranco ~ Callous (Bird on glockenspiel and whistling) Haley Bonar ~ Captain, Captain (toured with Bird and [...]
A dedicated Late Greats reader wondered if I had a wake up mix to go with my day ending mix. As luck with have it, I do. I like to put parameters on my mixes; otherwise it's just too difficult compiling a CD's worth of music. Like the mix of album ending tracks, these are all songs that start albums, track number one (see the parallel?). This mix starts are slow and builds (rather quickly) in order to get you up, dressed, out the door, and headed to Starbucks so you can make it to work on time. [...]
Day 9 in a crazy attempt to post 5 love songs every day till Valentines Day Game time calls for songs with a rhythm that can keep you going. Here are 5 songs that won't let you down . Ani DiFranco - When You Were Mine (Prince Cover) [MP3] * The Prize Fighter Inferno - Your Love (Outfield Cover) [MP3] Sufjan Stevens - The One I Love (REM Cover) [MP3] [...]
Today we have two different homonyms that make a kind of funny pairing (hence the title of the post). Hypnotized Ani DiFranco Medeski, Martin & Wood by Jolene Mindy Smith (featuring the songwriter: Dolly Parton) Ray LaMontagne (my fav Jolene song) Jeremy Fisher Which song do you dig best? Or [...]
(This post is in honor of Groundhog's Day, both date and movie. And as of 7 this morning, Phil says an early spring!!!) So a few years ago, I was listening to this Ani album (Dilate) and the title track came on. My wife and I were sitting on the couch. Two minutes into the song, something clicked. I jumped over the back of the couch and rushed to the piano. Whacking on the keys, I figured out Ani was working in the key of A. Her little wordless chorus sounded strikingly similar to one David Byrne uses [...]
Ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich Andrew Birds Musik einordnen sollte. "The Arcade Fire" ohne das ganze Pomp und Getöse? Kammermusik? Vielleicht. Doch was Andrew mit seiner Violine, Gitarre, Glockenspiel und Samplern schafft, ist gleichermaßen elegant, melodisch, hektisch und intim. Und das alles auf einmal. Und manchmal eben einfach magisch. Schon seit einiger Zeit habe ich Andrew Bird aus Chicago fest im Blick, den Größen wie My Morning Jacket, Magnetic Fields, Lambchop, und Ani DiFranco regelmäßig einladen, mit ihnen auf Tour zu gehen. Und nun genieße ich still hier die Vorfreude auf "Armchair Apocrypha", das [...]
You always hear that everyone has already made up their mind about Hillary Clinton. They either like her or hate her and there's no middle ground. I'm not sure I believe that. For one, while I have made up my mind in the general sense (I like her and would be happy to vote for her), I definitely haven't come to any firm decision about her in relation to the other potential Democratic candidates. Disclosure: My personal politics are way, way to the left of any of these folks on most issues. To [...]
This is Volume 14 of the celebrated RSL BLOG radio sessions. Tune In. Satisfy My Mind... (Just a collection of songs that somehow manage to) Artist: Russ Mills These entries are a mix series based on what I am listening to at any given moment. Its my way of bonding with you [...]
A little blast from the past, which I've been really in the mood for the last couple days... Fixing Her Hair - Ani DiFranco Everyone plays the guitar, but it's just a completely different instrument in her hands, especially back in those early years. The staccato picking style makes gives every note so much more force and yet it all sounds so sparse and simple. But if it's so simple how come none of the other folk singers in the world ever managed [...]
I've been writing about a lot of topical stuff recently, partly because the recent campaign season really got my political blood boiling, but also because in a broader sense, my politics are a big part of who I am. It affects the kind of music I listen to, the way I interpret it, and how I choose to write about it. I don't usually make a particular effort to bring up this stuff, but it does tend to infuse things. I realize that for folks just looking to download some songs it's probably annoying, but I make [...]
I've wanted a tattoo since I was in high school. I came up with new ideas every month, desperately searching for the perfect image to get emblazoned on my skin. I never got anything, though, because despite my longing to decorate my body with ink, I knew that I hadn't come across anything that I thought would mean as much to me in my later life as it did in my youth. When I went to Greece in June/July, I was fulfilling another long-surviving desire. I'd wanted to go to Greece for at least the past year, but [...]
A contest of sorts So I was considering spreading this out over a week, but thought it's best to get it over with. Here are my five contenders for the most miserable song ever. Not miserable in the sense of bad, quite the opposite, these are really some of my most favorite songs ever, but miserable in the sense of evoking a misanthropic--yet quite aesthetically pleasing--sense of despair. Are you with me? The Smiths traveled a [...]
I know that the account of this kind of solitary imprisonment is insufferably tedious, unless there is some cheerful or humorous incident to enliven it,â€"a tender gaoler, for instance, or a waggish commandant of the fortress, or a mouse to come out and play about Latude’s beard and whiskers, or a subterranean passage under the castle, dug by Trenck with his nails and a toothpick: the historian has
I'm feeling a good deal better about life today, actually. I'm not nearly perky as this photo suggests, though I'm pretty confident that I'm better off than I think. So much of the stress from the weekend was largely self-inflicted. I could ruminate further, but instead I'm choosing to let it go. Nothing good is gained by holding onto bullshit, even (especially?) when it's your own creation. The open letters I wrote over the weekend are actually toned-down versions of a post I wrote late Friday [...]
(Photo by Ergun&Aytaç'ın sayfası ) I've never really been able to get Prince . Sometimes I think I'm missing out, sometimes I think it's for the best. There's a part of me that goes around internally yelling purple rain.... purple rain! And another part of me that thinks of the more embarassing scary dwarf connotations. But, it's impossible to deny that the man has written some seriously great songs. Maybe the finest is Nothing Compares 2 U, it's quality maybe only apparent in it's Sinead O'Connor incarnation, and [...]
(In an attempt to get a gig as an album reviewer for some other online or print journals, I have decided to start a weekly album review column.) Dedicated readers of The Late Greats know my love of Ani. Every since I saw her live in 1995, I have been a fan, buying each new release on the day it comes out. And Reprieve was no exception. About the picture and release date: It was August 6th and then the 9th that America nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Releases [...]
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