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Amy Ray of Indigo Girls: We Were Afraid to Claim We Were Gay
” As well as if we ever before leave a legacyIt’s that we liked each various other well”–” Power of Two,” Indigo Girls
When Amy Ray and also Emily Saliers take the stage next Saturday at the inaugural Eaux Claires songs festival– Justin Vernon of Bon Iver’s antidote to overwrought, overcommercialized concerts– they will certainly do something they haven’t done in years: play their critical Swamp Ophelia album in its totality.
However, for Ray, whose speaking voice has the exact same metal timbre that offers a sonic undertow to the folk duo’s lilting melodies, the demand for cherished songs such as “Power of Two,” “Least Complicated,” as well as “Touch Me Autumn” came as a shock. “It’s been rather fascinating to re-learn the record begin to end up,” she claims with a laugh. “Several of right stuff I needed to go back in and find out just how to play. I really needed to go online and also see how individuals played it.” As well as though it’s been an exercise in nostalgia, taking another look at old material is not without its drawbacks. “A few of my tunes are not that fantastic on it,” she says. “The record’s obtained some great things on it, yet I was still identifying some aspects of songwriting.”