| Product Summary | | Label: Righteous Babe Records | | UPC: 00748731703424 | | Release Date: 1/20/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60621930 | | Item#: M9CPF5 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Platforms ~ Ani DiFranco |  | | 2. Swim ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 3. Educated Guess ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 4. Origami ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 5. Bliss Like This ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 6. True Story Of What Was, The ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 7. Bodily ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 8. You Each Time ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 9. Animal ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 10. Grand Canyon ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 11. Company ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 12. Rain Check ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 13. Akimbo ~ Ani DiFranco | | | 14. Bubble ~ Ani DiFranco | |
| On her solo album Educated Guess, Ani utilizes the minimalism of her home studio to express her latest artistic leap. On the album, she plays all the instruments, provides all the vocals and, for the first time in her career, does all of the recording and mixing herself. The end result is truly a singular sensation, as intimate and fresh as the very best of her work has always been. Rolling Stone Online calls it "one of her sharpest, most honest works to date."
"DiFranco exhibits a strong-fingered guitar attack ..." Billboard
"...the sense of isolation in such numbers as "Swim" is reinforced by her creative approach." Los Angeles Times
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Solo performer: Ani DiFranco (vocals, various instruments). | | Recorded at The Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, Louisiana and The Dust Bowl Studios, Buffalo, New York. | | Personnel: Ani DiFranco (vocals, guitar). | | Audio Mixer: Ani DiFranco. | | Recording information: The Dust Bowl, Buffalo, NY; The Sugar Bowl, New Orleans, LA. | | Photographer: Eric Frick. | | With her storied shunning of major labels and the cultivation of her own record label, Righteous Babe, in beleaguered hometown Buffalo, New York, indie-folkster Ani DiFranco hasn't had to cultivate any image as the ultimate in DIY, she just emanates the essence of everything that acronym embodies. To declare, however, that her 13th studio album, EDUCATED GUESS, is her most do-it-yourself record since her beginnings is saying something. And EDUCATED GUESS is just that, as Ani sang and played every note directly onto an 8-track recorder. | | The album thrives in that intimate setting, achieving the feel of Ani sitting in a shadowed room with a guitar, letting us in on what's been on her mind, whether it's musings on patriotism and feminism on "Grand Canyon" or lovers drifting towards complacency on "Company." Just when Ani's earnest lyrics seem to be veering towards teenage poetry, out comes a line like "when I said this was what I wanted, did you think I thought it would be fun?" The music, as on her previous two albums, is part MINGUS-era Joni Mitchell, part poetry slam, and she's found a comfort zone in it, making EDUCATED GUESS, like the majority of her records, an always-pleasing, always-intriguing listen. |
Producer: Ani DiFranco |
Engineer: Ani DiFranco |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 01/20/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 34 | | Label : Righteous Babe Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00748731703424 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (3/04, p.96)
- "[A]n album sanded with sad humor and a return to old loves." - Grade: BQ (3/04, p.101)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "[S]he still has the personable style and wit to make feminism sound the only way to be, and her fans will not be disappointed." Uncut (3/04, p.87)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]he moody, percussive shiver of 'Bodily' and 'Company' reads like a minimalist, politicized take on Joni Mitchell's HEJIRA." |
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