Ani DiFranco comes out as a comrade on new album (song: New Bible)
Ani DiFranco comes out as a comrade on new album (song: New Bible)
oh, rise the proletariat
red banners unfurled
let’s mend the failures of history
and the manmade world
let’s mend the failures of the profit system
let’s rewrite the law books
quit following the path of least resistance
cuz that’s what makes the river crooked
I recently listened through her self-titled album. Very pretty voice. Her songs felt like slam poetry. It was entirely unique from anything else I heard.
Yeah, I hadn't heard of her until the recent re-issue of her self-titled. I'm a big fan! Your description as "slam poetry" is very apt. Indie folk slam poetry.
Check out songs like Serpentine from her album Evolve. She's had anti-capitalist politics for a long time.
Yeah, I can't remember which songs specifically, but she's done stuff with Utah Phillips.
Damn, it appears she did entire albums with Utah Phillips. Props Ani, you're somehow even cooler than I thought.
my first GF, the queerest straight cis woman i've ever known, was really into DiFranco. so i heard a lot of her stuff from the 90s didn't know she was so overtly commie
Always knew she was left, and she did work with Utah Phillips (anarchist?) , but during Obama's first term, I remember reading an interview she did with some left media, she gave the cringest lib Obama apologist answers that I stopped following her stuff.
I should really have a red banner or flag or something
Really fuckin love her duet with Prince in Providence
oh wow I really haven't dived deep enough into DiFranco's catelogue, I had no idea she collaborated with Prince. That's awesome. Great song too.
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