Indigo Girls - Backstage At The Greek
December 5, 2014 3:21 PM Subscribe
In July 2014, Indigo Girls did a show at the Greek Theater in LA with Joan Baez. They filmed a series of videos backstage discussing their songs and their songwriting process. In Part 1, they discuss and perform Amy Ray's song Devotion. (album version, lyrics)
Part 2: Emily Saliers shares the background of her song Soon To Be Nothing. (album version, lyrics)
Joan Baez joins Emily and Amy on the couch for Part 3, talking about philosophy of musical activism, and they do a truncated performance of Emily's song Our Deliverance. (album version, lyrics)
Emily's "country song" Leaving is featured in Part 4. (album version, lyrics)
Share The Moon is a song by Amy, discussed and performed in Part 5. (album version/official video, lyrics)
Amy and Emily discuss what they feel are their best songs in Part 6, and they perform what Emily considers to be her best song, She's Saving Me. (album version, lyrics)
Joan Baez rejoins Amy and Emily in Part 7 for a (yet again truncated) performance of Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, along with a discussion about what Joan thinks is her best song. (album version [From Joan's Ring Them Bells album], lyrics)
In the final part, Part 8, Amy and Emily talk about their songwriting process, and Emily previews the unfinished song Elizabeth, a new work which will be on their upcoming album. (no album version or lyrics, sorry)
The entire series is available in a YouTube playlist.
BONUS: The July 3, 2014 Joan Baez concert featuring Indigo Girls filmed at the Greek Theater (16 tracks, YouTube playlist)
BONUS BONUS: WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour interview and performance by Indigo Girls, filmed in March 2014 [~55m]
Part 2: Emily Saliers shares the background of her song Soon To Be Nothing. (album version, lyrics)
Joan Baez joins Emily and Amy on the couch for Part 3, talking about philosophy of musical activism, and they do a truncated performance of Emily's song Our Deliverance. (album version, lyrics)
Emily's "country song" Leaving is featured in Part 4. (album version, lyrics)
Share The Moon is a song by Amy, discussed and performed in Part 5. (album version/official video, lyrics)
Amy and Emily discuss what they feel are their best songs in Part 6, and they perform what Emily considers to be her best song, She's Saving Me. (album version, lyrics)
Joan Baez rejoins Amy and Emily in Part 7 for a (yet again truncated) performance of Bob Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, along with a discussion about what Joan thinks is her best song. (album version [From Joan's Ring Them Bells album], lyrics)
In the final part, Part 8, Amy and Emily talk about their songwriting process, and Emily previews the unfinished song Elizabeth, a new work which will be on their upcoming album. (no album version or lyrics, sorry)
The entire series is available in a YouTube playlist.
BONUS: The July 3, 2014 Joan Baez concert featuring Indigo Girls filmed at the Greek Theater (16 tracks, YouTube playlist)
BONUS BONUS: WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour interview and performance by Indigo Girls, filmed in March 2014 [~55m]
Oh, this is wonderful! I love the Indigo Girls, I can't wait to watch all of these videos.
posted by sc114 at 3:45 PM on December 5, 2014
posted by sc114 at 3:45 PM on December 5, 2014
Oh, a belated Quonsmas treat! Thanks ever so for this. I can never decide which I like more -- hearing the Indigo Girls sing or talk about their music.
posted by bearwife at 4:31 PM on December 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by bearwife at 4:31 PM on December 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Ahhhhhh!!! They are my all time FAVORITES!! Catching their show every summer at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens is the highlight of my year! Thank you so much for this! My vote for best post!!
posted by pearlybob at 9:03 PM on December 5, 2014
posted by pearlybob at 9:03 PM on December 5, 2014
I probably could've made that show in person if I'd been paying attention, which I now feel grumpy about. Thanks for posting this, though, so I can catch it retroactively!
posted by Alterscape at 11:11 PM on December 5, 2014
posted by Alterscape at 11:11 PM on December 5, 2014
Oh, fantastic! I've lost touch with the Indigo Girls in recent years, but their '90s albums were hugely important to me. A couple of months ago, I started ripping all my old cds, and I've been listening to 1,200 Curfews a lot. Such a wonderful live album, probably one of the best I've heard.
posted by Georgina at 4:43 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Georgina at 4:43 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yesterday was folk music Friday with the Spotify playlist at work. We started with about 2 hours of Indigo Girls. Weird how they showed up in my life twice in 24 hours...
posted by COD at 7:43 AM on December 6, 2014
posted by COD at 7:43 AM on December 6, 2014
One time in the mid to late 90s I visited a friend in Atlanta who told me she was going to take me to "the Indigo Girls restaurant," which I thought was an amazing thing to exist. We got there and it was just an ordinary restaurant, kind of a hipster bistro, with no indication of any connection to the Indigo Girls. It turns out my friend meant "the Indigo Girls' restaurant."
I haven't thought about them in years, but I was a fan back then.
posted by jayder at 9:15 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
I haven't thought about them in years, but I was a fan back then.
posted by jayder at 9:15 AM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]
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