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Track Listing
1. Strange Fire
2. Crazy Games
3. Left Me a Fool
4. I Don't Wanna Know
5. Hey Jesus
6. Get Together
7. Walk Away
8. Make It Easier
9. You Left It up to Me
10. Land of Canaan
| Details | | Producer: | John Keane | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Also available in a 3-pack with INDIGO GIRLS and NOMADS INDIANS SAINTS.
Indigo Girls: Emily Sailers, Amy Ray (vocals, guitars).
Indigo Girls: Emily Sailers, Amy Ray (vocals, guitar).
Additional personnel: DeDe Vogt (mandolin); Nita Karpf (cello); Annie "Stan" Tichardson (flute); Sandy Garfinkle (harmonica).
Producer: John Keane.
Reissue producer: Bruce Dickinson.
Recorded at John Keane Studios, Athens, Georgia. Includes liner notes by Amy Ray.
Digitally remastered by Scott Hull (Classic Sound Studio, New York, New York).
This is a limited edition packaged in a recycled paper digipak.
Indigo Girls: Emily Sailers, Amy Ray (vocals, guitar).
Additional personnel: Michelle Malone (vocals); Dede Vogt (mandolin); Nita Karpf (cello); Sandy Garfinkle (harmonica); Annie "Stan" Tichardson (flute).
Producers: John Keane. Amy Ray, Emily Saliers.
Reissue producer: Bruce Dickinson.
Engineers: John Keane, Tommy Cooper.
Recorded at John Keane Studios, Athens, Georgia. Includes liner notes by Amy Ray.
Digitallly remastered by Scott Hull (Classic Sound Studio, New York, New York).
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met in grade school and started playing music together soon after. They were performing locally and writing songs together by the time they were in high school. While attending Emory University, Ray and Saliers began calling themselves Indigo Girls-a name picked out of the dictionary because it sounded cool-and building a significant local following. Initially recorded and released independently in 1987, STRANGE FIRE is in many ways the "prequel" to the Indigo Girls' career. This is a more folk oriented, coffeehouse-style album, and it makes for an excellent introduction to the Girls' canon.
The opening "Strange Fire" has a feel reminiscent of the Girls' later work, but the album swiftly moves into softer territory. Saliers is known for penning such aching songs of love and loss as "Crazy Game" and "Hey Jesus." Ray contributes the harder edged but similarly concerned "Walk Away and "You Left it Up to Me." The crowd-pleasing, raucous "Land of Canaan" makes an early, unplugged appearance here, as does a cover of Youngblood's '60s anthem "Come Together."
Industry Reviews
3 out of 5 stars - ...Sets out their stall: close harmonies, intelligent lyrics and pretty songs.... The Indigo Girls are well worth wallowing in.
Q (01/01/2001)
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