Ani
Difranco’s ‘Evolve’ hits music stores
By Monica Levette Clark
On-line Forty-Niner
 Ani
DiFranco and her mean acoustic guitar show
no sign of stopping any time soon. After
all, she is only 32 years old. Yet, 20 albums
exist in the world with her name and artistry
written all over them and in every sense,
for all of her albums were released on her
own Righteous Babe Records label.
“Evolve,” Difranco’s latest creation of
12 tracks is now in stores. Hurry! Go pick
it up. Several songs on the freshest offering
from this Buffalo, New Yorker deserve everyone’s
undivided attention.
Favorite tracks on this album include: 7
(Shrug),
4 (Slide), 6 (Evolve), 8 (Phase), and 2
(In the Way), in that order. “Serpentine,”
clocking in at 10 minutes and 23 seconds
is the longest song on the album, and is
the most politically charged.
It rips into almost any and every system
under the sun, from Enron’s scandal, to
political parties.
“Yes, the goons have gone global and the
CEOs are shredding files/ and the democrins
and republicrats/ are flashing their toothy
smiles,” Difranco sings.
The journalist in me loves the line “cuz
all the wrong people have the power of suggestion/
and the freedom of the press is meaningless/if
nobody asks questions.”
While the true hip-hop head in me seconds
the opinionated line “hip hop is tied up
the backroom/ with a logo stuffed in its
mouth/ cuz the master’s tools, will never
dismantle the master’s house.”
OK, enough free snippets go and experience
“Evolve” for yourself, and hurry!
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