I heard this last night and thought of Little Plastic Castle.
Not a connection I'd noticed before - and I might be crazy - but I'm pretty sure the songs are cousins.
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me is track 4 on Glass Houses.
Just watched the Little Plastic Castle video with Axel, the man that introduced me to Ani DiFranco.
One of the things that I just realized tonight that I love about that song is that Ani sings a serious, poignant social message, and she has fun with it. If you listen on an album, Ani might sound angry. And, yeah, I dont think there's any question that anger is involved. But if you watch her face as she plays, you see that the music is about so much more than pain and frustration; it's about the silliness and the sound and the realization that things need to change.
Once again...
If we can't do it with a smile on our face, if we can't do it with love in our heart, then children we ain't got no right to do it at all.
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I just added an Inspiration list to the right hand sidebar on A More Perfect Market.
14 videos so far. As I was thinking about who and what to include, Ani DiFranco jumped to mind. But I knew her only in audio, so I looked her up. I was hoping I'd find a live performance of I'm No Heroine. I found this instead... I love musicians that smile.Comments [0]
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