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"When learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is worth your while" Watershed
Those of you who know me know that I am obsessed with the Indigo Girls. When they sing, I often feel as if I could have written the lyrics myself. They are indeed "Intimate Strangers" to me. One of the most spectacular moments of my life was attending their concert in December of 1999. Although I could barely see them, I sang along at the top of my lungs and had a great time. Their harmony, lyrics, and beautiful songwriting touch me every day of my life. I admire their strenghth, activism, and their individuality. They call out to me to be active in my community and to always be myself no matter what the costs.
The Indigo Girls consist of two women, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. These two women have been friends since high school, but didn't start seriously playing together until college. The Girls write seperately and each have their own distinct style. After they compose their songs, they work together on coming up with the harmonies. The result-pure musical perfection. They write music that is difficult to catagorize, but some call it folk rock.

Listening to Indigo | A Few Indigo Links
Amy Pics (and a few of Emily) | Favorite Lyrics | Emily and Amy Quotes

  Listening to Indigo

     Take a listen to this song called "Blood and Fire." This is a classic example of an Amy song. Amy's songs are passionate, tend to be more simple in lyrics and melody, and tend to use more electric guitar and sound more "punky." I think Amy sounds sooo sexy in this song.  This is my favorite song right now because I think it applies to my life.  She sings "I want to find someone who can take as much as I can give, and give it all back without losing the will to live."  Sometimes it's hard to find a person that can take the whole of you and not lose their own identity in the process. 

     This is an Emily song called "Love's Recovery." I think it is one of her best. Her lyrics amaze me every time I listen to her music. Her songs tend to be more mellow, poetic, and often contain a moral or story. This particular song is about how people are always looking for a better relationship instead of just taking the time to make their current relationship work.  Emily is trying to remind us that the grass may seem greener on the other side, but it's not.  Every relationship has its ups and downs.  "Tell all the friends that think they're so together, they are ghosts and mirages all these thoughts of fairer weather."
     The last song you should listen to is called Secure Yourself.  Secure Yourself is a special song to me.  Amy wrote this song whenever her cat died.  My job requires me to euthanize animals that I love all of the time.  I know that all of these animals are special beings, and this song uplifts me when I feel as if I can't handle the pain.  "Secure yourself to heaven, hold on tight the night has come. Fasten up your earthly burdens, you have just begun."  I love you, all you animals that have crossed the rainbow bridge.   You will be in my heart forever. 
     This is just a sample of a few of my favorites.  They are all from the same album (Indigo Girls), so go out and buy that one and some of the others and support these great artists.  Their music only gets better and more diverse.  Their albums are:  Indigo Girls, Strange Fire, Back on the Bus, Ya'll, Nomads*Indians*Saints, Rites of Passage, Swamp Ophelia, 1200 Curfews, Shaming of the Sun, and Come on Now Social. All of them are great, but I'd recommend starting with Indigo Girls or Swamp Ophelia. Support them please so that they keep making music!

A Few Indigo Links

Lifeblood     This is one of the best Indigo sites.  It has all of their lyrics and fun puzzles and stuff.

Indigo Girls Web Ring     This is the Indigo webring.  It has basically every Indigo site there is. 

The Official Indigo Girls Homepage   This page (by Sony) has updated tour dates and interesting writings by the girls themselves.

Tour Dates   for the Come On Now Social Tour

Links, Links, Links   (Kind of self explanitory)

All Things Indigo     This has neat mp3's and voice clips

Indigo Girls mp3 Station   This site is great for finding live, released, and unreleased mp3's

Activism   The girls are active in the world and their community.  Check out some of the groups they support

Discography Every commercial album and the songs on every one

Indigo Crazy   This has links to about anything you can imagine

Indigo Girls FAQ   Even I learned something from this (and I thought I knew everything about the girls!)

Indigo Girls Direct Go here to buy cool t-shirts and bumper stickers

The meaning behind the words   Have you ever wondered what exactly Amy and Emily were thinking when they wrote those beautiful lyrics?  Now you can find out!

Do you know everything about IG?  Take this really hard quiz and find out!

Here's another quiz that's a little shorter

Parodies of some Indigo classics

Cheesy Humor   Visit the Indigo Grill for at least a chuckle or two

You know you're obsessed with IG when....

Indigo Trivia  This game is so fun!

Name these songs by the opening chords  This while get you ready to be the first one to scream in the concert when one of your favorites begins...

Bringing up Baby  Think you can name an Indigo Girls tune by hearing just one word? Well, how bout giving it a try with that oh so generic of loving nicknames, "baby". The Good Girls do a lot of babying in their songs, so see if you can identify these ten different IG songs from their six Epic-released studio albums.

Twisted Titles  Here's a little critical thinking for y'all. The following is a list of IG song titles that have been rearranged slightly. Some are puns, others are definitions, and still others are direct translations. See if you can't name them all

 

Amy Pics (and a few of Emily)

In case you don't know, Amy is my favorite (although I love both of them), so here are a few pictures of Amy that are really cute. 



 

Favorite Lyrics

I think that the girls are terrific lyricists.  Their music constantly inspires me throughout my daily life.  If you have any favorites that aren't here, send them to me at indigogirl20@chickmail.com

"i am looking for someone who can take as much as i give
and give back as much as i need
you know and they still have the will to live"
Blood and Fire

"why do we hurtle ourselves through every inch of time and space
i must say around some corner i can sense a resting place
with every lesson learned a line upon your beautiful face
we'll amuse ourselves one day with these memories we'll trace"
Get Out the Map

"and it's alright if you hate that way
hate me cause i'm different
you hate me cause i'm gay
truth of the matter come around one day
it's alright"
It's Alright

"up on the watershed
standing at the fork in the road
you can stand there and agonize
till your agony's your heaviest load
you'll never fly as the crow flies
get used to a country mile
when you're learning to face
the path at your pace
every choice is worth your while"
Watershed

"if i have a care in the world
i have a gift to bring"
Hammer and a Nail

Now I'm running to the end of the earth
And I'm swimming to the edge of the sea
And I'm lauging, I'm under a starry sky.
This world was meant for me, don't bury me.
World Falls

"we got to learn to respect what we don't understand"
Fugitive

"forget about your ego,
forget about your pride,
and you will never have to compromise"
Joking

Emily and Amy Quotes
This is what the girls have to say about life, love, their music, and their fans.

Amy says, "Sometimes I like traveling and sometimes I don't.  It's just my cats - I'm worried about my cats. I really am. I think that's the only thing that really bothers me." Emily adds, "We try not to talk about the cats when we're gone."

Why Indigo Girls and not Indigo Women? "It sounds better," said Ray. " 'Women' sounds sort of lofty." She also likes the alliteration. What about Indigo? "We needed a name and went through the dictionary."
-Amy

"We don't say to people that they necessarily have a responsibility to be political, but it shouldn't be so unusual. Music is such a good way to resist. It keeps you strong, it has dignity."
- Amy

"Our fans are very loyal, and they're closely tied into the emotional aspect of our music."
-Emily

"I was jealous of Emily because she was already writing songs and playing guitar. I wasn't writing anything. I was practicing three chords," Ms. Ray says."Yeah, I was writing songs about the sky and the clouds," Ms. Saliers jokes.
- both about their relationship in sixth grade

"My whole thing about writing is I wanna say exactly what .. I want it to be clearly understood what it is I'm saying. And try to say it in unusual way and maybe try to use images that are creative."
- Emily about songwriting

Sometimes I feel like a strawberry.
- Emily