Retrospective

Indigo Girls: Amy Ray (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin); Emily Saliers (vocals, guitar, banjo).
Additional personnel includes: Steve Earle (vocals, harmonica); John Jennings (electric guitar); Lisa Germano (mandolin, violin, pennywhistle); Carol Isaacs (accordion, piano, organ, Moog synthesizer); Jerry Marotta (piano, drums, bongos, percussion); Chuck Leavell, Jai Winding (piano); Peter Holsapple (keyboards); Danny Thompson (acoustic bass); Sara Lee, Clare Kenny (electric bass); Jay Dee Daugherty, John Reynolds, Kenny Aronoff, Blair Cunningham (drums); Dawson Miller, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Joan Osborne, The Roches, Michael Stipe, Luka Bloom (background vocals).
Producers includes: John Keane, John Reynolds, Peter Collins, Scott Litt, Indigo Girls.
Engineers include: Tim Oliver.
Recorded between 1987 & 2000. Includes liner notes by Susan Faludi.
All tracks are digitally remastered.
This is a limited edition packaged in a recycled paper digipak.
Indigo Girls: Amy Ray (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin); Emily Saliers (vocals, guitar, banjo).
Additional personnel includes: Steve Earle (vocals, harmonica); John Jennings (electric guitar); Lisa Germano (mandolin, violin, pennywhistle); Carol Isaacs (accordion, piano, organ, Moog synthesizer); Jerry Marotta (piano, drums, bongos, percussion); Chuck Leavell, Jai Winding (piano); Peter Holsapple (keyboards); Danny Thompson (acoustic bass); Sara Lee, Clare Kenny (electric bass); Jay Dee Daugherty, John Reynolds, Kenny Aronoff, Blair Cunningham (drums); Dawson Miller, Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Joan Osborne, The Roches, Michael Stipe, Luka Bloom (background vocals).
Producers includes: John Keane, John Reynolds, Peter Collins, Scott Litt, Indigo Girls.
Engineers include: Tim Oliver.
Recorded between 1987 & 2000. Includes liner notes by Susan Faludi.
All tracks are digitally remastered.
The feminist Everly Brothers? You get to make the call with this well chosen best-of, featuring 14 career-spanning tracks from all their albums (beginning with their debut, originally released as an indie, STRANGE FIRE) and concluding with two previously unreleased new tunes.
Highpoints include the Girls' initial MTV hit "Closer to Fine," (still their anthem) and "Galileo," a Beatles-esque meditation on reincarnation. "Shame on You" is probably the hardest rocking song they've ever done, perhaps because both Girls play electric guitar for a change, or perhaps (just as likely) due to the presence of alt country god Steve Earle on harmony vocals.