| Product Summary | | Label: Righteous Babe | | UPC: 00748731700928 | | Release Date: 10/15/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60269100 | | Item#: MSM2TD | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Bridges ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco |  | | 2. Nevada City, California ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 3. Korea ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 4. Anarchy ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 5. Candidacy ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 6. Bum On The Rod ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 7. Enormously Wealthy ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 8. Mess With People ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 9. Natural Resources ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 10. Heroes ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 11. Half A Ghost Town ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | | | 12. Holding On ~ Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Utah Phillips (vocals); Ani DiFranco (vocals, acoustic, electric, tenor & steel guitars, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer piano, bass, percussion, thumb piano, samples); Darcie Deaville (fiddle). | | Recorded at Congress House Studio, Austin, Texas in March 1996. Includes liner notes by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips. | | Released shortly after a somewhat controversial EP (MORE JOY, LESS SHAME) that playfully tweaked folk traditionalists with a half hour of trip-hop experiments and a live version of "Joyful Girl" sung with Doc Severinson and the Buffalo Philharmonic, THE PAST DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE continues the singer-songwriter's iconoclastic streak. Though the album is billed as a duet with leftist political balladeer Utah Phillips, the construction of the record is rather strange. Phillips doesn't sing here but extemporizes often- fascinating monologues on a variety of topics both political and personal. DiFranco took these tapes of Phillips and recorded unobtrusive instrumental backing for them, playing nearly all the instruments-tenor, acoustic, electric, and steel guitars, bass, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer piano, percussion, thumb piano and samples--by herself, with Darcie Deaville adding touches of fiddle here and there. The resulting 12 tracks are a strange but often beautiful sort of folkie-dub. |
Producer: Ani DiFranco |
Engineer: Ani DiFranco |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/15/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 009 | | Label : Righteous Babe Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00748731700928 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (11/08/96, pp.68-69)
- "...Both his voice and the cut-and-spliced hip-hop production by folk grrrl DiFranco are stiffer than they need to be, but Phillips' didactic monologues possess a sarcastic absurdity that fans of Woody Guthrie and Beck should identify with."- Rating: B Musician (1/97, p.86)
- "...tapes of him (Phillips)
explaining why folk songs are boring, telling stories...philosophizing about the stupidity of greed. DiFranco unobtrusively chopped up the tapes and provided an ambient dub backing. The result grabs you both intellectually and musically..." |
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