Folk Alley Sessions

(Session first published April 2016) by Kelly McCartney (@theKELword) for Folk AlleyOver the course of her more than 25 years of making music, Ani DiFranco has been widely celebrated and often emulated. The trouble is, DiFranco's work is a moving target which words and imitation fail miserably in hitting. She would argue -- and has -- that hers is a living, breathing body of performance art that makes its most comfortable home on stage. "I am a work in progress," she concedes in "The Slant," off her 1990 self-titled debut, adding some years later on the title track to 'Evolve,' "I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves."In an interview with Cuepoint about her last release, 'Allergic to Water,' Ani upped the ante even more:"This is my problem making albums, to begin with, is that they do not move. There's a stagnant... I may as well write my words down on paper while I'm at it, if I want them to just fucking sit there. ... I've made incredible mistakes along the way in my recordi