So Much Shouting So Much Laughter (Live) (2002)

Artist: Ani Difranco
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Label: Koch International Distributio
UPC: 00748731702922
Release Date: 9/10/2002
Buy.com Sku: 60567043
Item#: MD7FDR
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Swan Dive ~ Ani DiFranco
2. Letter To A John / Tamburitza Lingua ~ Ani DiFranco
3. Grey ~ Ani DiFranco
4. Cradle And All ~ Ani DiFranco
5. Whatall Is Nice ~ Ani DiFranco
6. What How When Where (Why Who) ~ Ani DiFranco
7. To The Teeth ~ Ani DiFranco
8. Revelling ~ Ani DiFranco
9. Napoleon ~ Ani DiFranco
10. Shrug ~ Ani DiFranco
11. Welcome To ~ Ani DiFranco
Disc 2
Song TitleSample
1. Comes A Time ~ Ani DiFranco
2. Ain't That The Way ~ Ani DiFranco
3. Dilate ~ Ani DiFranco
4. Gratitude ~ Ani DiFranco
5. Rock Paper Scissors ~ Ani DiFranco
6. 32 Flavors ~ Ani DiFranco
7. Loom / Pulse ~ Ani DiFranco
8. Not A Pretty Girl ~ Ani DiFranco
9. Self Evident ~ Ani DiFranco
10. Reckoning ~ Ani DiFranco
11. My IQ ~ Ani DiFranco
12. Jukebox ~ Ani DiFranco
13. You Had Time ~ Ani DiFranco



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Ani DiFranco (vocals, guitar); Hans Teuber (flute, clarinet, saxophone, background vocals); Ravi Best, Todd Horton, Shane Endsley (trumpet); Julie Wolf (keyboards, background vocals); Jason Mercer (bass); Daren Hahn (drums).
Partially recorded at Nantes, France and Boise Idaho. Includes liner notes by Ronald Ehmke.
Upon opening the CD case of So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, one is greeted with a picture of an automobile shop with a sign reading, "We Believe in God -- America -- Trucks." One imagines that Ani DiFranco and her fellow New Yorkers find a number of similar sentiments as their progressive folk show travels across small-town America. Despite such nativist impulses, DiFranco also finds a warm, responsive audience wherever she travels. Her first live album in five years, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter documents the Righteous Babe in a number of settings, captured between September 2000 and April 2002. Like 1997's Living in Clip, one can't really hope to reproduce a DiFranco concert on a single disc. The performances are seamlessly sequenced, meaning one can put both discs in the CD changer, crank up the volume, and settle into the easy chair for a private show. Also like Living in Clip, DiFranco revels in boisterous crowds as she delivers fresh interpretations of familiar favorites (there's a minimal overlap of material between the two discs). The material on each disc falls under a different umbrella. The first, "Stray Cats," gathers a handful of set list standards, including "To the Teeth," "Napoleon," and "Swan Dive." The second disc, "Girls Singing Night," concentrates heavily on DiFranco's feminist leanings, with pieces like "Ain't That the Way," "Reckoning," and "Dilate." What pulls everything together, regardless of theme or which disc is in the player, is DiFranco's usual all-or-nothing vocals bolstered by her fabulous band. Even with familiar fare like "Letter to a John" and "Not a Pretty Girl," keyboardist Julie Wolf, bassist Jason Mercer, and drummer Daren Hahn kick the intensity level up another notch. One more layer of icing is added to this multi-tiered sound when the horn section cuts loose on pieces like "32 Flavors." The package is sweetened by the inclusion of a few rare pieces along with a new poem/song, "Self Evident," written in response to the attack on the World Trade Center. So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter captures DiFranco and friends in vibrant form and shouldn't be missed. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford Jr.
Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco didn't become one of the biggest DIY success stories by sticking to the studio. Over the years, she built her cottage industry up through tireless touring, gaining a huge and rabidly loyal audience one painstaking gig at a time. So although her Righteous Babe label has released many fine studio efforts from the prolific recording artist, it's on a live album like this two-disc affair that DiFranco can truly shine. All the little touches that make Ani's performances so special can be heard over the course of SO MUCH SHOUTING, SO MUCH LAUGHTER; the trademark stuttering, start-stop acoustic guitar rhythms of "Swan Dive," the way the horns and the organ interact on "Whatall is Nice," the folky strumming that underpins the sociopolitical message of "To the Teeth,"the bluesy, slow-burn vocalizing in which DiFranco indulges on "Revelling." All the aspects of her music come into play in a concert setting, so when the pointed aggression present in one of DiFranco's signature songs, "Not a Pretty Girl" is effectively underscored by the band, you're able to feel the effect at home in much the way the audience did. And isn't that what a live album is supposed to be all about?

Producer: Ani DiFranco

 
Compilation Appearances
Homeless Specific Song Cycle
My Best Friend's Wedding
Til We Out Number Em
Silverwolf Story
Badlands (Bonus Tracks)
When Pigs Fly
Going Driftless
Respond 2
Homeless Project
Seeds The Songs Of Pete Seeger Vol.3
Bonnaroo 2004
Rarities
Whatever: The '90s Pop & Culture Box
My Better Self
Audry Hepburn's Children's Fund: All Children
Body Acoustic 1105
ROLLERGIRLS / O.S.T.
Sowing The Seeds:10th Anniversary
City That Care Forgot
Singing Through The Hard Times:utah P

 
Associated Artists and Works
Joyful Noise: The Lounge Tribute To Ani DiFranco ~ Lounge Brigade (The)
The Past Didn't Go Anywhere ~ Phillips, Utah
Fellow Workers ~ Phillips, Utah
Phillips, Utah

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/10/2002
Original Release Date : 2002
Catalog ID : 29
Label : Righteous Babe Records
Number of Discs : 2
Studio/Live : Live
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00748731702922

 
Professional Reviews
Dirty Linen (8/03, p.55)
- "...The mix and production are superb. DiFranco's guitar remains the core of the sound, but the other instruments blend in and out perfectly..."

  
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