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SWING SET
Ani DiFranco
(Righteous Babe / Festival)
It's been about six months since urban folkie and indie-label entrepreneur Ani DiFranco released an album -- practically an eternity for a woman who issued two solo CDs, a collaboration with Utah Phillips and a series of EPs in 1999. So, to tide the fans over, here's a nifty little six-track EP for Swing, the latest single from her latest disc, the adventurous hip-hop and electronica-tinged To The Teeth. You get the radio edit, the album track and a stylish remix of the album's title track. But it's the second half that's the real lure: An acoustic cover of Woody Guthrie's Do Re Mi different from the version on the recent Til We Outnumber 'Em tribute CD; a touchingly sparse reworking of Phil Ochs When I'm Gone from an upcoming Abbie Hoffman biopic; and the real prize, a tense, crackling take on Dylan's Hurricane that was left off that film's soundtrack. That alone will hold you for the three or four weeks it takes her to put out a new album.
Track Listing
1.Swing (Radio Set)
02.Swing (Album Version)
03.To The Teeth (Shoot-Out Remix)
04.Do Re Me
05.When I'm Gone
06.Hurricane