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I stopped posting meme-type things a long time ago, and I'm not about to start up again now. But my friends do post them, and I do participate on their blogs when I feel like it. Kathy had one up last week with song lyrics, which is not my forte, but I did recognize the Ani DiFranco lyrics. And THAT made me look up tour dates.
No, Ani is not coming back to Boston anytime soon, nor will she be anyplace I will be when I'm there (she will be in Italy at some point this fall, but not at the same time as me). But! She put out a CD from the concert I did go to at the Orpheum last November. Since it was only $10, I had to get it (and another one of her CDs, which are pretty reasonably priced with cheap shipping from her record label). It arrived yesterday, a whole four days after I ordered it - nice.
I've been listening to the CDs at work today, and I gotta say, this is WEIRD. Yes, I'm enjoying the music, and I have other CDs of Ani live, but I was at this concert. Except... I don't quite remember everything. So it's a very strange feeling, listening to a couple hours of music/chatter that you actually experienced, exactly this way (except I was in the balcony of the Orpheum sitting in a seat with a loose spring that ripped my cordoroy pants, but those are minor details). But as strange as it is, I am loving it, and I wish she would put out a CD from the concert I went to the next day in Providence, because that was such a fun concert combination of fun - some overlap, but a lot of the older classics (as "classic" as Ani is) appeared in one concert or the other, which was phenomenally good. Yes, a Providence CD would make me very happy.
The production on the CD is very good, by the way. It is of course a live recording, but they did a good job of filtering out the singing of the crowd, which is great AT the concert, but maybe not what you want on a recording.
The only bad thing about the CD is that it's making me relive the emotions I experienced the weekend of the concerts. I was very anxious about, and ended up partly dealing with, something that weekend, and those issues have led to some of the recent turmoil in my life. But I guess that's how life goes sometimes.
- Lizzardie, at 12:24 PM
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