Up Up Up Up Up Up by Ani DiFranco

Up Up Up Up Up Up is Ani DiFranco's ninth album, and like everything else she has put out, it came out on Righteous Babe, the label she built herself. She produced it too, so nobody else's fingerprints are on this one: folk rock at the root, with an indie-rock bite and the punk, funk and jazz leanings that keep her from ever sounding like just another singer with an acoustic guitar.

"Angry Any More" was the song sent to radio, dressed up on its promotional single with a radio remix and an extended mix, and its banjo intro proved sturdy enough that she sampled it later for "The Arrivals Gate" on To the Teeth. Meanwhile "Jukebox" picked up a Grammy nomination for Female Rock Vocal Performance, proof that going it alone didn't keep her out of the big room.

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