The Buffalo singer-songwriter who built Righteous Babe Records from a coffeehouse guitar.
For a quick sense of her style, try 'Adam and Eve' or 'Swan Dive', both have that unvarnished, guitar-forward sound she built her name on.
DiFranco's 1995 album 'Not a Pretty Girl' included '32 Flavors' and dealt plainly with sexuality, gender, and politics at a time when few major labels would touch that material. She recorded it on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, which she started in 1990 with her self-titled debut. Songs like 'Adam and Eve' and 'Swan Dive' show her direct approach to writing and playing, without the filter of a corporate music system.
She was playing Buffalo coffee shops as a teenager and put out her first album on Righteous Babe in 1990. Her fourth album, 'Not a Pretty Girl' from 1995, connected with listeners and included '32 Flavors.' She's released more than twenty albums since, working at times with other musicians like Sarah McLachlan and Bruce Springsteen while keeping control through her own label.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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