Ani DiFranco shares the stories behind her songs, from classics like 'Both Hands' and 'Untouchable Face' up to her new album, 'Unprecedented Sh!t'
of people, Ani DiFranco’s music might be emblematic of a certain time — of clove cigarettes and coffee shops, dorm rooms and Doc Martens. But that hasn’t stopped her from continuing to develop herself and her sound. “Sometimes it bums me out to hear on repeat from people’s faces, like, ‘Oh, I loved you in the Nineties.’ ‘Oh, you got me through high school,’” DiFranco says.
I remember I was starting to get more traction as a musician in the world, so therefore I was running up against more of that culture of competition, especially amongst women, and especially in a culture where there’s onlythat’s going to be on the bill. Just the way patriarchy sets us up to compete with each other for the scraps, and that just bummed me the fuck out. I was craving allies, and instead finding saboteurs. I think it’s kind of about that.was I played bass on the whole record.
He trusted me enough to send me a box, about the size of a toaster oven, full of cassettes that people had recorded along the way of his life and performance. It was his life’s work, so I transferred them all to DAT tape, and I started combing for stories, and I set them to music. “Joyful Girl” is on that record, the live version. I believe on the recording it’s just me and Andy on drums, but we’d do whatever we could with two sticks to make a fire. We were very experimental. In “Joyful Girl,” he got in the habit of coming out from behind his drums and standing next to me, and drumming on the body of my guitar. So I’m playing the song, and he’s just standing very close to me and drumming on my guitar with his fingertips, and it was a vibe. It was very intimate.
Then my response to it, instead of saying, “Sorry, I should have been on that,” I tried to justify it — like, first, I didn’t know what the venue was when I said yes to the gig. Second, I play all kinds of fucked-up . Half the buildings in New Orleans are slave quarters. If you live in the South, these are the buildings all the horror happened. I said all the things that made sense to me, but boy, did that not help.
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