Reprieve by Ani DiFranco (CD, Aug-2006, Righteous Babe Records)

Every new album from singer-songwriter-guitarist Ani DiFranco gives listeners a reason to get excited about music all over again and her latest collection of songs is no exception: 13 tracks featuring her signature bledn of poetry, politics and dazzing musicianship. Recorded primarily in her home studio in pre-Katrina New Orleans with bassists Todd Sickafoose, REPRIEVE is the clearest demonstration yet of ani's tlaents as a producer, crafting an overall sound as clear, precise and succint as her lyrics have always been.

Tracks

Hypnotized
Subconscious
In the Margins
Nicotine
Decree
78% H2O
Millennium Theater
Half-Assed
Reprieve
A Spade
Unrequited
Shroud
Reprise