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Not A Pretty Girl (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 Not A Pretty Girl (CD) Album By Ani DiFranco (Artist)
1   Worthy
2   Tiptoe
3   Cradle And All
4   Shy
5   Sorry I Am
6   Light Of Some Kind
7   Not A Pretty Girl
8   Million You Never Made, The
9   Hour Follows Hour
10   32 Flavors
11   Asking Too Much
12   This Bouquet
13   Crime For Crime
14   Coming Up
15   Untitled
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (8/24/95, pp.102-103) - 3.5 Stars - Good - "...Judging by NOT A PRETTY GIRL, few have done battle with the vigor, determination and brooding honesty of Ani DiFranco, a talented and fiercely independent singer/songwriter..."
Sing Out! (Vol.41 #1, pp.130-132) - "...all of Ani's expression comes together on this, her latest archive of passion....She writes songs informed by urban despair and sexual politics..."

Title Note

Personnel: Ani DiFranco (vocals, acoustic, electric & steel guitar, thumb piano, bass, percussion); Andy Stochansky (vocals, drums, percussion); Kate Fenner (vocals).

Recorded at The Recording Complex, Buffalo, New York and 1:2:1, Toronto, Canada.

1995's NOT A PRETTY GIRL synthesizes elements of Ani DiFranco's six prior albums and is widely considered one of this wildly prolific Buffalo, New York-based singer/songwriter's finest efforts. Here, the folky acoustic starkness of ANI DIFRANCO and NOT SO SOFT meshes with songs that recall the detailed full-band arrangements of LIKE I SAID and OUT OF RANGE. DiFranco even remakes an earlier song, IMPERFECTLY's "Coming Up."

Lyrically, the album also refines topics previously covered. There's the abortion drama "Tiptoe," the sneering record-business diatribe "The Million You Never Made," and a passel of songs that touch on DiFranco's outspoken bisexuality (notably "Light of Some Kind"). The difference is that the pieces fit together more smoothly than before. The relative lack of jagged edges makes the powerful emotions of the songs that much more intense. NOT A PRETTY GIRL is a masterpiece of '90s folk-rock.

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