Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco performing at the Ancienne Belgique in 2007
Background information
Birth name Angela Marie DiFranco
Born (1970-09-23) September 23, 1970 (age 41)
Buffalo, New York
Genres Folk rock, indie, alternative
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician
Instruments Guitar, bass guitar, tenor guitar, vocals, percussion, piano
Years active 1990–present
Labels Righteous Babe
Website righteousbabe.com

Ani DiFranco (play /ˈɑːniː/; born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970) is an American singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums,[1] and is widely considered a feminist icon.[2][3][4]

Contents

Biography [link]

DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York,[5] to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT.[6][7] She started playing Beatles covers at local bars and busking with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum,[8] at the age of nine.

In 1989, DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Records.[1] Early in her career DiFranco worked with manager Dale Anderson, a writer for the Buffalo News, who started another record label called Hot Wings Records, after the two parted ways, that released similar sounding material. Her self-titled debut album was issued on the label in the winter of 1990. Later, she relocated to New York City, where she took poetry classes at The New School and toured vigorously for the next 15 years, essentially pausing briefly only to record albums.

Righteous Records was renamed Righteous Babe Records in 1994.

In 1998, DiFranco's drummer, Andy Stochansky, left the band to pursue a solo career as a singer-songwriter. Their rapport during live shows is showcased on the 1997 album Living in Clip.

In 2002 her rendition of Greg Brown's "The Poet Game" appeared on Going Driftless: An Artists' Tribute to Greg Brown.

Her father died early in the summer of 2004.[9] In July 2005, DiFranco developed tendonitis and took a hiatus from touring. Her 2005 tour concluded with an appearance at the FloydFest World Music and Genre Crossover festival in Floyd, Virginia. She returned to touring in late April 2006, including a performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on April 28 and a performance at the Calgary Folk Music Festival on July 30, 2006.

In 2005 she collaborated with fellow folk singer Dar Williams on "Comfortably Numb", a Pink Floyd cover song from Williams' album My Better Self.

DiFranco's album Reprieve was released on August 8, 2006. It was previously leaked on iTunes for several hours around July 1, 2006, due to an error saying it was released in 2002.[10] DiFranco performed with Cyndi Lauper on "Sisters of Avalon", a track from Lauper's 2005 collection The Body Acoustic.

On September 11, 2007, she released the first retrospective of her career, titled Canon and for the first time, a collection of poetry in a book titled Verses.

Red Letter Year was released on September 30, 2008. Says DiFranco about the album:

"When I listen to my new record, I hear a very relaxed me, which I think has been absent in a lot of my recorded canon. Now I feel like I’m in a really good place. My partner Mike Napolitano co-produced this record – my guitar and voice have never sounded better, and that’s because of him. I’ve got this great band and crew. And my baby, she teaches me how to just be in my skin, to do less and be more."[11]

DiFranco performed a live webcast from Ex'pression College for Digital Arts[12] on June 24, 2010. She debuted a selection of new material, including the songs "Which Side Are You On?" (a reworking of the Florence Reece song with different lyrics penned by DiFranco), "Life Boat", "Unworry", "Promiscuity", "Splinter", "Amendment", "See See..." and "Hearse".

In 2010, DiFranco sued hip-hop horrorcore artist Necro for sampling her song, "Used to You" in a response track called "The Asshole Anthem" on his DIE! album. Due to the lawsuit, the album was reissued without the track.[13]

She has continued touring through 2011. As of 2008 her backing band consists of Todd Sickafoose on upright bass, Allison Miller on drums, and Mike Dillon on percussion and vibes. DiFranco returned to the Calgary Folk Music Festival in July 2008.

She is also a poet and has been featured on Def Jam's poetry hour.

DiFranco released an album of new material on January 17, 2012, titled "¿Which Side Are You On?". It includes collaborations with Pete Seeger, Ivan Neville, Cyril Neville, Skerik, Adam Levy, Righteous Babe recording artist Anaïs Mitchell, CC Adcock, and a host of New Orleans-based horn players known for their work in such outfits as Galactic, Bonerama, and Rebirth Brass Band.

She and her husband currently reside in New Orleans.[14][15]

Ani DiFranco, RZA, and Steve Albini at
The New Yorker festival in September 2005.

Relationships [link]

DiFranco identifies herself as bisexual,[16][17] and has written songs about love and sex with women and men. She addressed the controversy about her sexuality with the song "In or Out". In 1998, she married sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist in a Unitarian Universalist service in Canada, overseen by folk singer Utah Phillips.[citation needed] DiFranco and Gilchrist divorced five years later.

DiFranco gave birth to a daughter, Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano,[18] at her Buffalo home on January 20, 2007. She married the child's father Mike Napolitano,[19] also her regular producer, in 2009.

Critical reception [link]

DiFranco has been a critical darling for much of her career, if not always a commercial one, with a career album average of 72 on Metacritic.[20] DiFranco has been toasted by the Buffalo News as the "Buffalo's leading lady of rock music." The News further said:

"Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has backed various grassroots cultural and political organizations, supporting causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility."[21]

Starting in 2003, DiFranco was nominated four consecutive times for Best Recording Package at the Grammy Awards, winning in 2004, for Evolve.

On July 21, 2006, DiFranco received the "Woman of Courage Award"[22] at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and Young Feminist Summit in Albany, New York. Past winners have included singer and actress Barbra Streisand and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. DiFranco is one of the first musicians to receive the award, given each year to a woman who has set herself apart by her contributions to the feminist movement.

Music [link]

Guitar style and collaborations [link]

DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style,[23][24] rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its rhythmic variation. Her lyrics, which often include alliteration, metaphor, word play and a more or less gentle irony, have also received praise for their sophistication.

Although DiFranco's music has been classified as both folk rock and alternative rock, she has reached across genres since her earliest albums. DiFranco has collaborated with a wide range of artists including musician Prince, who recorded two songs with DiFranco in 1999 ("Providence" on her To the Teeth album, and "I Love U, but I Don't Trust U Anymore" on Prince's Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic album); folk musician and social activist Utah Phillips (on The Past Didn't Go Anywhere in 1996 and Fellow Workers in 1999); funk and soul jazz musician Maceo Parker; and rapper Corey Parker. She has used a variety of instruments and styles: brass instrumentation was prevalent in 1998's Little Plastic Castle; a simple walking bass in her 1997 cover of Hal David and Burt Bacharach's "Wishin' and Hopin'"; strings on the 1997 live album Living in Clip and 2004's Knuckle Down; and electronics and synthesisers in 1999's To the Teeth and 2006's Reprieve. Samples from the track "Coming Up" were used by DJ Spooky in his album Live Without Dead Time, produced for AdBusters Magazine in 2003.

DiFranco herself noted that "folk music is not an acoustic guitar – that's not where the heart of it is. I use the word 'folk' in reference to punk music and rap music. It's an attitude, it's an awareness of one's heritage, and it's a community. It's subcorporate music that gives voice to different communities and their struggle against authority."[25]

Lyrics, politics and religion [link]

Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical, it is often also strongly political. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and war. In 2008, she donated a song to Aid Still Required's CD to assist with the restoration of the devastation done to Southeast Asia from the 2004 Tsunami. The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for DiFranco's early popularity among politically active college students, particularly those of the left wing, some of whom set up fan pages on the web to document DiFranco's career as early as 1994. DiFranco's rapid rise in popularity in the mid-1990s was fueled mostly by personal contact and word of mouth rather than mainstream media.[citation needed]

DiFranco has expressed political views outside of her music. During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, she actively supported and voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.[26][27][28] She supported Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 and 2008 Democratic primaries. Kucinich appeared with her at a number of concerts across the country during both primary seasons.[29][30] DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Early in her career, DiFranco considered herself an atheist. On the subject of religion, DiFranco has stated:

"Well, I'm not a religious person myself. I'm an atheist. I think religion serves a lot of different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of ceremony, the value of community, or even just having a forum to get together and talk about ideas, about morals – that's a cool concept. But then, of course, institutional religions are so problematic."[31]

Since becoming a mother and releasing her Red Letter Year album in 2009, DiFranco has talked in concert about "finding religion".[citation needed] At concerts she has stated that her song "The Atom" is an "alternative Christian proposal". In "The Atom" she sings ”Oh holy is the atom/ The truly intelligent design/ To which all of evolution/ Is graciously aligned.” In Reno in 2008 prior to singing "The Atom", she said "I've kind of gotten religion lately, I took a sweet religion, one I am sort of familiar with and sprayed a can of patriarchy-off and this is what I came up with."[citation needed]

Label independence [link]

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.[32] She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including "The Million You Never Made" (Not A Pretty Girl), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, "The Next Big Thing" (Not So Soft), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and "Napoleon" (Dilate), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

DiFranco has occasionally joined with Prince in discussing publicly the problems associated with major record companies. Righteous Babe Records employs a number of people in her hometown of Buffalo. In a 1997 open letter to Ms. magazine[33] she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.

[edit] Discography

Studio albums [link]
"Napoleon"
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Compilations [link]

Live albums [link]

  • 1994 – An Acoustic Evening With
  • 1994 – Women in (E)motion (German Import)
  • 1997 – Living in Clip
  • 2002 – So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
  • 2004 – Atlanta – 10.9.03 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2004 – Sacramento – 10.25.03 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2004 – Portland – 4.7.04 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2005 – Boston – 11.16.03 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2005 – Chicago – 1.17.04 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2005 – Madison – 1.25.04 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2005 – Rome – 11.15.04 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2006 – Carnegie Hall – 4.6.02 (Official Bootleg series – available in stores)
  • 2007 – Boston – 11.10.06 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2008 – Hamburg – 10.18.07 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2009 – Saratoga, CA – 9.18.06 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2009 – Chicago – 9.22.07 (Official Bootleg series)
  • 2010 – Live at Bull Moose Music (Limited edition)[35]

EPs [link]

Demos [link]

Videos [link]

  • 2002 – Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco
  • 2004 – Trust
  • 2008 – Live at Babeville

Poetry [link]

Other contributions [link]

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ a b Gene Stout (August 21, 2006). "DiFranco makes time for radical sabbatical: Indie rocker records new album and prepares for motherhood". The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. https://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=486202. Retrieved 2008-01-02. [dead link]
  2. ^ "Sound Bites". Daily Texan. September 17, 2002. https://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2002/09/17/Entertainment/Sound.Bites-499123.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-02. 
  3. ^ Lori Leibovich (March 27, 1998). "Mother Who Think: Hey hey, ho ho, the matriarchy's got to go". Salon. https://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1998/03/27feature.html. Retrieved 2008-01-02. 
  4. ^ "Fame hasn't changed the way DiFranco works: Independently". The Sacramento Bee. April 14, 2000. https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB047DB661B7CA7&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-01-02. 
  5. ^ Celebritybabynamesblog.com
  6. ^ Ani DiFranco Biography – Discography, Music, Lyrics, Album, CD, Career, Famous Works, and Awards
  7. ^ Dante Americo DiFranco Memorial Page
  8. ^ Notes on the album Open Ended Question
  9. ^ "Still Fighting" Review in Paste. September 2006.
  10. ^ iTunes Mislabeled Release Date as 2002
  11. ^ Shock Records, "Ani DiFranco to Release New Album Red Letters". Retrieved on 08-15-08
  12. ^ Creativeallies.com
  13. ^ Necro: Horror Business
  14. ^ Huff, Quentin B. Ani DiFranco: Red Letter Year. Accessed 18 December 2008.
  15. ^ Farley, Christopher, John. A life in Song. Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2008. Accessed 18 December 2008.
  16. ^ Ani DiFranco, Folksinger and Entrepreneur by Kris Scott Marti, November 28, 2004
  17. ^ Find articles.com, by Achy Obejas, The Advocate, December 9, 1997
  18. ^ "Introducing Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano" Celebrity Baby Blog. July 3, 2007.
  19. ^ Dowd, Kathy Ehrich. "Singer Ani DiFranco Welcomes a Daughter." People. January 23, 2007.
  20. ^ Ani DiFranco on Metacritic. Accessed on October 1, 2011.
  21. ^ Hearey, Owen (2006-07-22). "'Righteous Babe' announces she is pregnant". Buffalo News: pp. D1. https://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:BNWB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1130D77E50D232B8&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815. Retrieved 2008-05-11. 
  22. ^ Rolling Stone news
  23. ^ Facts about Ani
  24. ^ Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip by Jon Steltenpohl
  25. ^ Rock Troubadours by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers
  26. ^ HackWriters.com article: "Ani DiFranco interview".
  27. ^ Rolling Stone magazine article: "Eddie Vedder, Patti Smith Go Green at NYC Nader Rally – Nader rally draws Vedder, DiFranco to Madison Square Garden"
  28. ^ Salon.com article: "The Nader Letters".
  29. ^ Brian Orloff (September 16, 2004). "DiFranco Knuckles Down". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/articles/story/6485503/difranco_knuckles_down. Retrieved 2008-04-03. 
  30. ^ Lauren Gitlin (August 27, 2003). "Ani, Willie Support Kucinich". Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/anidifranco/articles/story/5935166/ani_willie_support_kucinich. Retrieved 2007-11-10. 
  31. ^ Rothschild, Matthew (2000-05-09). "Ani DiFranco – folk singer – Interview". The Progressive. https://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_5_64/ai_61963258/pg_5. Retrieved 2008-04-10. 
  32. ^ Educated guess article
  33. ^ Interview with Ms. Magazine
  34. ^ MMguide.musicmatch.com Retrieved on 06-06-07
  35. ^ Mainetoday.com Retrieved on 4-21-2010

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Ani DiFranco (album)

Ani DiFranco is the eponymous debut album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 1990 (see 1990 in music).

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.

  • "Both Hands" – 3:38
  • "Talk to Me Now" – 4:29
  • "The Slant" – 1:36
  • "Work Your Way Out" – 4:08
  • "Dog Coffee" – 2:56
  • "Lost Woman Song" – 4:50
  • "Pale Purple" – 4:02
  • "Rush Hour" – 5:03
  • "Fire Door" – 2:42
  • "The Story" – 3:30
  • "Every Angle" – 2:44
  • "Out of Habit" – 2:45
  • "Letting the Telephone Ring" – 4:30

    • Personnel

  • Ani DiFranco – guitar, vocals

    • Production

  • Producers – Ani DiFranco, Dale Anderson
  • Engineer – John Caruso
  • Mastering – Ed Stone
  • Photography – Scot Fisher
  • Artwork – Dave Meinzer

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    Podcasts:

    Ani DiFranco

    ALBUMS

    Allergic to Water

    Released 2014

    Not a Pretty Girl

    Released 2014

    Buffalo: April 22, 2012

    Released 2013

    ¿Which Side Are You On?

    Released 2012

    Live at Bull Moose Music

    Released 2010

    Live at Babeville

    Released 2008

    Red Letter Year

    Released 2008

    Official Bootleg Series Sampler

    Released 2007

    2007-10-18: Hamburg, Germany

    Released 2007

    Canon

    Released 2007

    Boston 11.10.06

    Released 2007

    Reprieve

    Released 2006

    Carnegie Hall 4.6.02

    Released 2006

    Boston 11.16.03

    Released 2005

    Chicago 1.17.04

    Released 2005

    Madison 1.25.04

    Released 2005

    Rome, Italy 11.15.04

    Released 2005

    Knuckle Down

    Released 2005

    Portland 4.7.04

    Released 2004

    Sacramento 10.25.03

    Released 2004

    Atlanta 10.9.03

    Released 2004

    Educated Guess

    Released 2004

    Evolve

    Released 2003

    So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter

    Released 2002

    Revelling / Reckoning

    Released 2001

    Fellow Workers

    Released 1999

    Up Up Up Up Up Up

    Released 1999

    To the Teeth

    Released 1999

    High Above Down Under

    Released 1998

    Little Plastic Castle

    Released 1998

    Bremen 1997

    Released 1997

    Living in Clip

    Released 1997

    Dilate

    Released 1996

    Hog's Family Picnic

    Released 1996

    Women In (E)motion 5

    Released 1996

    More Joy, Less Shame

    Released 1996

    The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

    Released 1996

    An Acoustic Evening With... (1994-07-14, Renton, WA, USA)

    Released 1994

    Out of Range

    Released 1994

    Like I Said: Songs 1990-91

    Released 1993

    Puddle Dive

    Released 1993

    Not So Soft

    Released 1991

    Ani DiFranco

    Released 1990

    2005-03-20: The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    2002-03-14: Eagles Ballroom, The Rave, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    2008-10-27: Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    1992-11-02: Amherst, MA, USA

    1994-07-01: High Sierra Music Festival: Bear Valley, CA, USA

    1997-09-19: Summerstage, Central Park, New York, NY, USA

    1998-10-03: Minneapolis, MN, USA

    1999-02-18: Dublin, Ireland

    1999-07-24: Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale, NY, USA

    2004-06-11: Bonnaroo Music Festival, Manchester, TN, USA

    2004-11-09: Amsterdam, Netherlands

    2004-09-10: Greensburg, PA, USA

    2004-09-11: Baltimore, MD, USA

    1996-06-05: Tucson, AZ, USA

    1999-03-02: Studion, Stockholm, Sweden

    1998-03-21: Folk Hero: Umeda Heat Beat, Osaka, Japan

    Imperfectly

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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Brief Bus Stop

    by: Ani Difranco

    she sat there like a photograph
    of someone much further away
    we shared a brief bus stop
    on one of those inbetween days
    she gave me her smile
    and I looked underneath
    at the lipstick on her teeth
    she asked me for a light
    and if I thought her hair looked okay
    we grew out of the small talk
    into stuff strangers just don't say
    we discovered we are both
    pleasently furious half of the time
    when we're not just toeing the line
    we sat underneath the shelter
    as the rain came down outside
    the bench was cold
    against the underside of our thighs
    I said I think we need new responses
    each question's a revolving door
    and she said, yeah,
    my life may not be something special
    but it's never been lived before
    we decided our urgency will wane
    when we grow old
    and there will be a new generation of anger
    new stories to be told
    but I said, I don't know if I can wait
    for that peace to be mine
    and she said, well, you know,
    we've been waiting for this bus




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