RE: Selling millions/Ani fans

["Lindholm, Jeffrey" <JRL6B>]

Count me as one 44-year-old Ani DeFranco fan. I first saw her at an outdoor
festival in about 1991, when she had just one cassette tape for sale. I
don't fit into her aware/concerned/pissed-off femme demographic, but I like
her wit and insight and she's spunky as all get out. Anybody that's sassy as
she is, is all right with me! Seen her several times in concert in recent
years and love her techno-folk direction.

Jeffery Lindholm
jrl6b
University of Virginia
Health System Communications

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jackthecat [SMTP:jackthecat]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 02:00 PM
> To:   babel-list
> Subject:      Re: Selling millions
>
> I think that Ani's music appeals to a much wider demographic...I know kids
> age 12 up to 30+ who love her because she speaks to them deeply in the way
> patti speaks to some of us....I know there are younger people who've
> discovered patti and that's great....but I think most of us are older and
> were around in the 70's in some capacity and into patti in our teen years
> of
> angst, etc.  Ani's music isn't in the same category as patti...its very
> gender aware whereas patti speaks of genderlessness as a good place for an
> artist to work from, as there are less boundaries..Ani is also extremely
> accomplished on guitar and has great lyrics, she's sharp as a whip and
> also
> looks the part (pierced, clothing choices) of disaffected Gen X...Patti
> has
> the lyrics over Ani by far, but Ani can play that guitar....I'm just
> wondering how the other living CB's bands are doing record sale
> wise...Blondie's doing well, Television had the one cd that seemed to
> disappear and go out of print real fast....Richard Hell has his spoken
> word
> stuff....Jim Carroll has a few pieces of vinyl that went to cd as well as
> a
> new cd...wonder how that did???? Can't believe it did better than
> patti...Tom Verlaine hasn't put out any new stuff in years...I wonder how
> Sonic Youth sell??? (altho they weren't players at CB's??).  I would have
> to
> say patti got under my skin with horses and then again with Gone Again,
> for
> two different reasons, as I was in a different place and age for Gone
> Again....IMHO, jtc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amy L. Dove <adove>
> To: <babel-list>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Selling millions
>
>
> > To the best of my knowledge, Ani DiFranco basically started out selling
> > tapes out of the trunk of her car in NYC.  I don't think her earlier
> > albums featured a lot of other musicians, mostly just her and her
> > guitar.  Don't know how she evolved it into such a successful business,
> > but now I think that she's even gone and signed a few more acts.  She
> > usually plays with a band now, as her music has evolved from
> > folky-chick-with-her-guitar against the world, to something completely
> > new.  She uses more keyboards and electric guitar with her act.  On her
> > most recent album, "To the Teeth," she does this really cool number with
> > a rapper.
> >
> > LKG wrote:
> > >
> > > I keep hearing that Ani DiFranco does all her records totally
> > > on her own and always has, with great success. If this is true,
> > > how does she do it? (I think she also plays with a band/bands?)
> > >
> > >  :} Lkg
> > >
> > >
> > --
> > Amy L. Dove (adove)
> > "And yet you'd like to believe that your very geekness -- your
> > weirdness...what makes you strange -- might also be your gift." -- Lisa
> > Germano