Ani Difranco - Knuckle Down

First time on vinyl

Grammy nominated album from 2005

For the first time in Ani's career, her studio release is available to vinyl aficionados. Unlike the Little Plastic Remixes four-song vinyl ep, this Knuckle Down pressing includes all 12 songs on two records. Housed in lyrically designed sleeves and a gatefold package, this is just the thing for your music collection.

For Knuckle Down Ani invited a fellow musician to co-produce the new record with her. That honor went to Joe Henry, an acclaimed performer and songwriter.

"I invited him out to share the stage, and we just struck up a friendship and started talking about making records-which both of us do, serially [laughs]-and really hit it off. We had a real lively creative dialogue going, so I took that as my cue to step out of my solitude and work with a co-producer for the first time-invite collaboration back into my life," Ani says.

The music Ani has created with their help is as stunning as ever, from such poignant yet instantly irresistible tunes as "Studying Stones" and "Recoil" to the spoken-word piece "Parameters," a harrowing account of a woman finding an uninvited stranger in her bedroom one night.

Through 12 songs as intricately crafted as short stories, Ani DiFranco creates an unforgettable musical self-portrait of a woman coming to grips with love's twists and turns, confronting the legacy of her family, and learning to live on her own terms.

 

1. Knuckle Down

2. Studying Stones

3. Manhole

4. Sunday Morning

5. Modulation

6. Seeing Eye Dog

7. Lag Time

8. Parameters

9. Callous

10. Paradigm

11. Minerva

12. Recoil

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