This week Ani Difranco released her 'retrospective', 'Canon'. It charts her 20 year-long journey of making music.
Unlike many 'best of' collections, it's not just a hastily assembled bunch of tracks taken from random parts of the artist's career.
The re-imaginings of classics like 'Both Hands' and 'Overlap' give a whole new meaning to these songs. Alanis Morrisette, Lauren Hill and others have done this before, re-recording old songs and breathing new life into them. It's an interesting idea, and much better than bashing out the same old stuff that all the fans know anyway.
Oh and she's playing at Shepherd's Bush Empire next Sunday, so if anyone would be kind enough to ask her to move the gig to a day I can make and buy me a ticket that would be super.
Ani Difranco: Both Hands [2007]
Ani Difranco: Overlap [2007]
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