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All rights reserved.To the Teeth - DiFranco, Ani (CD 1999)
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| Track Listing 1. To the Teeth 2. Soft Shoulder 3. Wish I May 4. Freakshow 5. Going Once 6. Hello Birmingham 7. Back Back Back 8. Swing 9. Carry You Around 10. Cloud Blood 11. Arrivals Gate, The 12. Providence 13. I Know This Bar
Album Notes Personnel: Ani DiFranco (vocals, acoustic, electric, tenor & acoustic baritone guitars, banjo, piano, organ, bass, drums, triangle, bells); Julie Wolf (vocals, accordion, melodica, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, organ, Clavinet); Prince (vocals); Corey Parker (rap vocals); Kurt Swinghammer (guitar); Jason Mercer (banjo, acoustic & electric basses); Maceo Parker (flute, tenor saxophone); Brian Wolf (trumpet, trombone, tuba); Irvin Mayfield (trumpet); Mark Mullins (trombone); Daren Hahn (drums, turntables). Recorded at The Dust Bowl, Buffalo, New York; The Congress House, Austin, Texas; Kingsway, New Orleans, Louisiana. Ani DiFranco continues her soulful, genre-bending, flaming guitar march into the millennium with TO THE TEETH. Like her other recent recordings, she branches out into full-band arrangements with plenty of electric sounds, in addition to the stripped-down acoustic music she's always made. Her singing roams into wider territories too, with the rap-rhythms of a funk singer and the smoky subtleties of a jazz diva. The title track is Ani's mournful-yet-directed diatribe on gun violence in America. Her sensitive, lilting guitar chords make for a moving contrast with the eventual full-band crescendo. She truly sounds so heartsick of it all that her pipes have run dry. The tune closes with an all-together-now oompah of tuba, trumpet, and drums, giving it an upbeat conclusion. The poly-textured "Freakshow" has a funky, hip-hip sensibility and strident, shout-style vocals--like a couple of the other tunes, it's an overdub pastiche with Ani playing and singing every part. Some honored guests are in attendance, too: "Swing" is truly a fun affair, with Maceo Parker blowing his signature funk horn to a backdrop of Wurlitzer piano and turntables, while the one-and-only Prince adds spirited vocal atmospherics to "Providence." | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||
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