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Joyous 2012 studio album from the New Orleans-based songstress ... her first in 4 years! Title track is a cover of the Pete Seeger-popularized workers anthem.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Pete Seeger makes a welcomed return to provide vocals and banjo for the title track `¿Which Side Are You On?' No less than 71 YEARS since he originally recorded the song. He was an iconic figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. Can Ani DiFranco create a folk revival of her own with this record? Well it must be said, 20 records into her career she has, in my opinion, fashioned a beautiful collection of songs which might just do this!! The tight rhythmic pulses harmonize beautifully with DiFranco's charming lyricism whilst maintaining her simplistic, earthy folk-roots. A great album! 10/10
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Ani DiFranco has been producing consistently good albums for more
than two decades. A big welcome, then, to her latest release 'Which
Side Are You On?'. There's nothing here to break the mold thank
goodness; just one more collection of terrific songs performed with the
kind of easy grace and consummate skill which we have come to treasure.
If anything, greater maturity brings with it greater depth and complexity
and Ms DiFranco inhabits these twelve new songs with fluid confidence.
Of the compositions on offer I have been particularly impressed with
'Unworry' whose staccato rhythm and episodic nature keeps us on our
toes. The words are packed in tight and crackle and burn like fireworks.
The grungy electric folk of Pete Seeger's 'Which Side Are You On' (he
features on banjo and backing vocals) gets a powerful reinterpretation.
The sprightly, open-textured 'J' is another cracker (Paul Simon might well
have been smiling in the wings) full of light and shade but with darker
lyrics which belie the song's bright and breezy ambience. 'Mariachi' is
simply delightful; the lilting pace and happy-go-lucky vocal smacks of
sunshine and summer breezes and the promise of romance. Final track 'Zoo'
is a plaintive stripped-down bluesy number with an ecological subtext;
a small message of hope and a prayer for survival in a world gone mad.
Ms DiFranco continues to shine like a beacon. It is a light worth following.
Highly Recommended.
than two decades. A big welcome, then, to her latest release 'Which
Side Are You On?'. There's nothing here to break the mold thank
goodness; just one more collection of terrific songs performed with the
kind of easy grace and consummate skill which we have come to treasure.
If anything, greater maturity brings with it greater depth and complexity
and Ms DiFranco inhabits these twelve new songs with fluid confidence.
Of the compositions on offer I have been particularly impressed with
'Unworry' whose staccato rhythm and episodic nature keeps us on our
toes. The words are packed in tight and crackle and burn like fireworks.
The grungy electric folk of Pete Seeger's 'Which Side Are You On' (he
features on banjo and backing vocals) gets a powerful reinterpretation.
The sprightly, open-textured 'J' is another cracker (Paul Simon might well
have been smiling in the wings) full of light and shade but with darker
lyrics which belie the song's bright and breezy ambience. 'Mariachi' is
simply delightful; the lilting pace and happy-go-lucky vocal smacks of
sunshine and summer breezes and the promise of romance. Final track 'Zoo'
is a plaintive stripped-down bluesy number with an ecological subtext;
a small message of hope and a prayer for survival in a world gone mad.
Ms DiFranco continues to shine like a beacon. It is a light worth following.
Highly Recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
'90s icon Ani DiFranco is back with a great album that proves she's still got it, some 20 years on from her debut. At traits baldly political, at traits introspective, deep and emotional, Which Side Are You On delivers a nice blend of outstanding tracks, which will leave you wanting to listen to the album over and over again. Definitely recommended, both to long term fans and and those new to her repertoire.
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