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Knuckle Down (Digipak) (CD)

By: Ani DiFranco (Artist)

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Ani DiFranco Artist Snapshot:

The ultimate expression of the DIY ethic, iconoclastic singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco burst onto the contemporary folk scene while still in her teens. Her confrontational lyrics, aggressive, percussive acoustic guitar playing, and unconventional image marked a new direction for folkie troubadours. Building up a huge grass-roots following through incessant touring and self-released albums, she was the first artist to achieve major success through truly independent means. By the end of the 1990s, her spare, acoustic sound had come to encompass everything from full-band rock to horn-driven funk and her Righteous Babe label (located in her hometown of Buffalo, New York) had become the home of other respected artists from Utah Phillips to Arto Lindsay. After writing and recording a new album virtually every year since 1990, DiFranco finally released a career retrospective in 2007, as well as a book of poems, and shows no signs of slowing down.

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DISC 1 for Knuckle Down (Digipak) (CD) Album By Ani DiFranco (Artist)
1   Knuckle Down
2   Studying Stones
3   Manhole
4   Sunday Morning
5   Modulation
6   Seeing Eye Dog
7   Lag Time
8   Parameters
9   Callous
10   Paradigm
11   Minerva
12   Recoil
 

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Review

Spin (p.92) - "[S]he's become masterful at painting in the blues and grays of everyday emotion....[With] a roomy, soulful sound..." - Grade: A-
Uncut (p.91) - 3 stars out of 5 - "DiFranco remains an utterly singular performer....KNUCKLE DOWN suggest she's added accessibility to her more recondite virtues."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.101) - 3 stars out of 5 - "This is an album about a broken relationship, giving up and moving on, and that's echoed in a new kind of musical maturity."

Title Note

Personnel: Ani DiFranco (vocals, guitar); Niki Haris, Noe Venable (vocals); Andrew Bird (whistling, violin, glockenspiel); Tony Scherr (electric guitar); Julie Wolfe (melodica); Patrick Warren (piano, chamberlin, sampler); Todd Sickafoose (Wurlitzer piano, bass guitar); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion).

Recording information: The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, CA.

For her first few albums of the 21st century, Buffalo, NY native Ani DiFranco gave in to her most inventive, explorative side. She delved into jazz on one record (EVOLVE), offered up a double-disc concept album (REVELLING RECKONING), and isolated herself in a room with her guitar on yet another (EDUCATED GUESS). With 2005's KNUCKLE DOWN, the DIY icon's 14th solo studio record in 16 years for her own Righteous Babe label, DiFranco eschews much of that experimentation, opting for a return to the formula that, along with her heralded DIY ethos, initially brought her to prominence.

KNUCKLE DOWN opens with comfortingly familiar, insistent acoustic-guitar strumming on the sweetly pensive title track, as DiFranco begins her story with the image of her "cowgirl alter-ego," before weaving through constantly shifting Dylan-esque imagery. DiFranco's voice contains unique folds and shadings, and is often underrated, but on tracks like the reflective "Studying Stones," when her now-customary falsetto lilt kicks in, the results are entrancing. It wouldn't be a DiFranco record without a piece of slam-poetry-style spoken word, and she obliges with the winding story "Parameters." KNUCKLE DOWN is yet another reminder of the prolific DiFranco continued relevance.

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