Indigo Girls have a new album out called Look Long and it's been lifting William Dart's spirits for some weeks.
Indigo Girls Photo: Artist website
In 2000, the American folk-rock duo Indigo Girls – Amy Ray and Emily Saliers – celebrated a decade and a half recording career with the album Retrospective: a fine CD with an equally fine booklet essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi.
Faludi summed up their success in a few spot-on sentences. They’d always refused to let anyone put an image on them. And being a duo, they resisted individual celebration and its instant obsolescence. While a stand-alone female performer may be perfect fodder for branded marketing, it was more difficult to do this with two women whose technique was simultaneously divergent and convergent; writing their own songs separately yet harmonising so exquisitely.
Now in 2020, Look Long is their 15th studio album and the first since 2015.
Emily Saliers, in the song 'When We Were Writers', sings that she's still burning inside and that's the message embedded in so many of these ear-bidding songs.
Music Details
'Song title' (Composer) – Performers
Album title
(Label)
'Closer To Fine' (Saliers) – Indigo Girls
Retrospective
(Epic)
'Shame On You' (Ray) – Indigo Girls
Retrospective
(Epic)
'Language Or The Kiss' (Saliers) – Indigo Girls
Swamp Ophelia
(Epic)
'Uncle John's Band' (Garcia, Hunter) – Indigo Girls
Rarities
(Arista)
'The Rise of the Black Messiah' (Ray) – Indigo Girls
One Lost Day
(Vanguard)
'Able To Sing' (Saliers) – Indigo Girls
Live With The University Of Colorado Symphony Orchestra
(Rounder)
'Shit Kickin'' (Ray) – Indigo Girls
Look Long
(Rounder)
'K.C. Girl' (Ray) – Indigo Girls
Look Long
(Rounder)
'Favorite Flavor' (Ray) – Indigo Girls
Look Long
(Rounder)
'When We Were Writers' (Saliers) – Indigo Girls
Look Long
(Rounder)
'Feel This Way Again' (Saliers) – Indigo Girls
Look Long
(Rounder)
