Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco makes outspoken, postmodern folk that suits her talents andforgives her
weaknesses. Her lovely, elastic voice can swing from toffee toburlap within a phrase, and
her feel for words is masterful-she pins downboth grim and romantic truths with the same
accuracy, and the result is alwaysunexpected and vivid. But as music, DiFranco's work is
slack and overly busyat the same time. Too many tracks on her twelfth solo albu... More >

Reports that she's fallen in love with the mirror are rank last-big-thingism. She's still the girl who ran away with the circus because bearded ladies do honest work, and far from going too far, her 13 climactic minutes of poetry-with-jazz attest to her unflagging esprit. She should let her junkie jones be for a while. But not her class jones. The rich are always with us. (Grade: A-)