Ani Difranco

Ani DiFranco – Red Letter Year – 1988 (iTunes – Amazon) Dammit, Ani. Just as I was ready to completely write you off you go and do something like this.Red Letter Year is good. It’s the best she’s done since Little Plastic Castles. It’s also the first album in 10 Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – Reprieve – 2006 (iTunes – Amazon) An interesting thing happened while listening to Reprieve. I found myself caught up in the mood and ambiance that had left me so cold on the most recent DiFranco records.The slow, almost inert opening track, “Hypnotized” actually succeeded in keeping me Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – Knuckle Down – 2005 (iTunes – Amazon) On first listen, the opening track of Knuckle Down, the title track, filled me with a sense of hope. THIS is the Ani that I remember. It’s not the best but it’s close to the original sound. Maybe, just maybe, Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – Educated Guess – 2004 – (iTunes – Amazon) If I had to make an educated guess I would say that with the exception of putting a gun to Ms. Difranco’s head, she wouldn’t remember any of these “songs”.These are meanderings.When Springsteen holed up with a 4 track Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – Evolve – 2003 (iTunes – Amazon) Ugh.This album, as I’ve read, is the swan song for the Ani DiFranco “band” and I couldn’t be more ready to kiss that crap goodbye. I think the woman that I fell in love with for her ideas, ideals and attitudes, Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – Revelling/Reckoning – 2001 (iTunes – Amazon) At this point I’m not really sure why anyone would care about Ani DiFranco and her records. I think, and I’m not sure, so don’t quote me, but, I think she HAS to record something because otherwise, well, that’s the way Continue Reading

Ani DiFranco – To The Teeth – 1999 (iTunes) Is Ani DiFranco advocating blowing up and destroying media and corporations? On the title track it sure seems so. Thing is, if this was the younger Ani the song would be an onslaught of frenetic fingering and it would have resonance. Continue Reading

“Why don’t you go ahead and turn off the sun cuz we’ll never live long enough to undo everything they’ve done to you.” Ani DiFranco – Up Up Up Up Up Up Up – 1999 (iTunes – Amazon) I suppose it was bound to happen, right? After four straight brilliant Continue Reading

“People used to make records as in the record of an event….” Ani DiFranco – Little Plastic Castle -1998 (iTunes – Amazon) After breaking into the mainstream with the live album Living in Clip and the two phenomenal albums before it Ani was presented with a new challenge. Namely what Continue Reading

“The most vituperative “fuck you” in the history of the music.” Robert Christgau Ani DiFranco – Dialte – 1996 (iTunes – Amazon) Christgau was referring to the opening track on Dilate, “Untouchable Face”. As in “Fuck you and your untouchable face!” For a woman whose lyrics have so often danced Continue Reading