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War and Peacenew

Ani DiFranco lets go of her inner conflicts.

Colorado Springs Independent | Alan Sculley | 02-27-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Ani DiFranco Talks Music and Motherhoodnew

DiFranco says the greatest inspiration in her current life as a world-famous rock star and activist is being the mother of 2-year-old Petah Lucia DiFranco Napolitano, her first child.

Boulder Weekly | Irene Joyce | 07-20-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Parenthood

Ani Difranco's Latest is Overproducednew

Red Letter Year is a string of songs that, more often than not, sound heavy instead of layered, muddy instead of nuanced, and bury Ani's trademark percussive finger picking and vocal flexibility.

C-Ville Weekly | Laura Eve Engel | 10-08-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Red Letter Year

Ani DiFranco Infuses 'Red Letter Year' with Jazznew

Deep, layered arrangements of jazz-infused rhythms have replaced her trademark staccato, fierce-fingerpicking concoctions.

San Antonio Current | Jessica Ramos | 10-01-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Red Letter Year

The singer, songwriter, activist, historian, storyteller and railroad tramp died last month at his home in Nevada City, Calif. Though he spent a lifetime imparting stories, songs and poems to the multitudes that came to hear him play, he took with him all the bits that never got written down -- what he referred to as "the long memory."

Philadelphia Weekly | Jeffrey Barg | 06-03-2008 | Music

Tags: Ani DiFranco, folk music, Utah Phillips

Ani DiFranco: Welcome to Babevillenew

Few would argue that DiFranco is not one of the hardest working women in music today.

Santa Barbara Independent | Aly Comingore | 04-07-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Canon

A Conversation with Ani DiFranconew

With the release of her new double-CD retrospective Canon, DiFranco has finally begun to slow down from the warp-speed career she's been riding since 1990, throughout which she toured constantly and released a record about once a year.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Justin Jacobs | 03-03-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Canon

Ani DiFranconew

DiFranco's latest release, Canon, is a best-of compendium of her discography. Compiling it meant that DiFranco, her own harshest critic, had to re-listen to all those old albums, an experience she describes, with an exaggerated whine, as "awful."

Shepherd Express | Evan Rytlewski | 09-14-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ani DiFranco, Canon