Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year reviews
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| Thephoenix |
 This is DiFranco’s most sophisticated album, a musical convergence of her best qualities: warm singing, graceful writing, experimentation. Even the title track, which mourns the state of modern American life and the devastation of New Orleans, has a softer bite than most of her earlier discs. DiFranco’s acoustic guitar rings more gently, her singing flows instead of churning out words like machine-gun fire, and the arrangements stack loops with live playing (which includes flourishes from guests like textural trumpet player Jon Hassell and the Crescent City’s Rebirth Brass Band) to create an ear-caressing framework for every track....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| That’s how Ani DiFranco introduced her song, “Way Tight”, during a November 10, 2006 performance at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. In that same intro, captured for compact disc as part of DiFranco’s “Official Bootleg” series, the Buffalo, New York native goes on to discuss her residency in New Orleans, Louisiana, and her love for the culture and music of the city. Inspired by the region’s optimism, she details her “little mission to write happy songs.” With a hearty laugh, she says, “It’s haaaaaard,” although her “baby daddy” was making the songwriting process “easy.” “So far, they’re all kind of about one subject,” she adds, partially joking. She calls “Way Tight”, a delightfully intimate little acoustic ditty, the first of these new tunes....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Ani DiFranco's 16th studio album is unlike all the ones that came before it. There are still the incisive metaphors, the artfully wielded acoustic guitar, the political made personal and back again. But the dominant force on "Red Letter Year" is contentment rather than restlessness. The 37-year-old singer/songwriter is a new mom in love with her daughter's dad, and the experience has saturated every element of her work, from the warmed-up sound of her voice and guitar, to the lessons learned at the end of her familiar narratives....full text |
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