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Happy Pride Month! Indigo Girls. [Wikipedia] Emily and Amy sit with Winona LaDuke and Filmmaker Alexandria Bombach to discuss their new documentary It's Only Life After All with Wajahat Ali. [20m, documentary still at festivals without distribution] We Can Do Hard Things With Glennon Doyle: Indigo Girls: Sexuality, Sobriety, Faith & Freedom [1h7m, audio only, summary article from Yahoo!].
Emily has spent the past couple of years working on a Broadway musical, that is entering late-preproduction stage. [Theatermania from April]
Amy's seventh solo album has been released. She talks about it to KUTX in February. [15m, audio]
My personal favorite track off their most recent release, 2020's Look Long, is the poignant Country Radio.
Emily has spent the past couple of years working on a Broadway musical, that is entering late-preproduction stage. [Theatermania from April]
Amy's seventh solo album has been released. She talks about it to KUTX in February. [15m, audio]
My personal favorite track off their most recent release, 2020's Look Long, is the poignant Country Radio.
Knew this post was you, hippybear.
My parents are big fans and go to the concerts together, we always had the albums on at home. I'm trying to get my husband into them now, love those close harmonies.
posted by subdee at 5:54 AM on June 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
My parents are big fans and go to the concerts together, we always had the albums on at home. I'm trying to get my husband into them now, love those close harmonies.
posted by subdee at 5:54 AM on June 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
The Indigo Girls were the first concert I’ve ever attended - in college, around 1993 - in our gym. They’ve been there for me through many phases of my life. I remember raising my youngest to love Indigo Girls, taking my child to another concert when they were six years old, and having them fall fast asleep in my arms while the music they had memorized was pounding in their ears.
When I was transitioning, Emily and Amy were with me. I danced to Salty South in my kitchen, alone, the emotions coursing through me. I listened to them for hours in my car, as I drove home from long work trips. I would sing along and cry, feeling like those lyrics had been written for me, that they were about the marriage and life I was losing, even as I gained another one.
They were with so many of us during lockdown, in their own living room, helping us feel less alone. And they are with me still, on my piano, for me to play, as I become the singer-songwriter who was hidden for so long in my heart.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 6:01 AM on June 10, 2023 [9 favorites]
When I was transitioning, Emily and Amy were with me. I danced to Salty South in my kitchen, alone, the emotions coursing through me. I listened to them for hours in my car, as I drove home from long work trips. I would sing along and cry, feeling like those lyrics had been written for me, that they were about the marriage and life I was losing, even as I gained another one.
They were with so many of us during lockdown, in their own living room, helping us feel less alone. And they are with me still, on my piano, for me to play, as I become the singer-songwriter who was hidden for so long in my heart.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 6:01 AM on June 10, 2023 [9 favorites]
Flight Hardware, do not touch: you should listen to that podcast episode. You would get a LOT out of it, I think.
posted by hippybear at 6:31 AM on June 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by hippybear at 6:31 AM on June 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
I can't wait to dig into the podcast. A+ Indigo Girling, hippybear.
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:29 PM on June 11, 2023
posted by ApathyGirl at 12:29 PM on June 11, 2023
Flight Hardware, do not touch: you should listen to that podcast episode. You would get a LOT out of it, I think.
I took your advice, though first I listened to the YouTube interview.
I did so while driving the same child, but this time seventeen years old, to their first date with another girl - and they fell asleep again. It was poignant, even more so when the interview ended with “Fugitive”, which goes “I’m harboring a fugutive, a defector of a kind, and she lives in my soul, and drinks of my wine, and I’d give my last breath to keep us alive.” That’s another song I listened to during transition - a song about the woman I had harbored so long inside. So I ended up driving, singing along to the Indigo Girls, crying, with my youngest child, the one I’ve gained back through the years, asleep next to me.
As for the podcast, it was so moving. So much about orientation and identity. Amy and Emily are very aware and accepting of all that has changed through the years in the LGBTQ community. And then they ended with “Second Time Around!” Another song I was so connected to during transition. “…you’re a God-fearing lesbian, so you learn not to yearn…”. I did a lot of that over the decades.
Thank you so much, hippybear.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 7:13 PM on June 11, 2023 [4 favorites]
I took your advice, though first I listened to the YouTube interview.
I did so while driving the same child, but this time seventeen years old, to their first date with another girl - and they fell asleep again. It was poignant, even more so when the interview ended with “Fugitive”, which goes “I’m harboring a fugutive, a defector of a kind, and she lives in my soul, and drinks of my wine, and I’d give my last breath to keep us alive.” That’s another song I listened to during transition - a song about the woman I had harbored so long inside. So I ended up driving, singing along to the Indigo Girls, crying, with my youngest child, the one I’ve gained back through the years, asleep next to me.
As for the podcast, it was so moving. So much about orientation and identity. Amy and Emily are very aware and accepting of all that has changed through the years in the LGBTQ community. And then they ended with “Second Time Around!” Another song I was so connected to during transition. “…you’re a God-fearing lesbian, so you learn not to yearn…”. I did a lot of that over the decades.
Thank you so much, hippybear.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 7:13 PM on June 11, 2023 [4 favorites]
FH, dnt: I'm suddenly in tears at my desk.
I also found the interview was really full of them seeing the changes in the community across the past 35 years, and them maybe saying things they hadn't said so clearly before regarding identity and their relationships. Emily's story of intervention was flooring to me -- the outlines had been known to me but this was a gut-punch. Well, a gut-punch and also a story of personal overcoming and willpower and maybe redemption, although that isn't the word I really want.
I'm glad that podcast touched you. I found listening to it to be like listening to old friends suddenly telling me all the things I had never known about them before. And they wanted to do this, and maybe it was their documentary or maybe it was the pandemic times and the online fan-centric things they were doing during those times... but suddenly this.
I'm truly thankful. I needed to hear these things. I think a lot of others needed to hear them, too. And there's so much going on in there, whatever you might have needed to hear is just one of a kaleidoscope of what others needed to hear.
posted by hippybear at 7:39 PM on June 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
I also found the interview was really full of them seeing the changes in the community across the past 35 years, and them maybe saying things they hadn't said so clearly before regarding identity and their relationships. Emily's story of intervention was flooring to me -- the outlines had been known to me but this was a gut-punch. Well, a gut-punch and also a story of personal overcoming and willpower and maybe redemption, although that isn't the word I really want.
I'm glad that podcast touched you. I found listening to it to be like listening to old friends suddenly telling me all the things I had never known about them before. And they wanted to do this, and maybe it was their documentary or maybe it was the pandemic times and the online fan-centric things they were doing during those times... but suddenly this.
I'm truly thankful. I needed to hear these things. I think a lot of others needed to hear them, too. And there's so much going on in there, whatever you might have needed to hear is just one of a kaleidoscope of what others needed to hear.
posted by hippybear at 7:39 PM on June 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
I'm kind of saddened to hear this still doesn't have a distributor. I saw this at Hot Docs this year and as a person who likes the Indigo Girls casually, I really enjoyed the doc. It's intimate and broad--one of the takeaways for me was just how much the world has really changed over the last 30-40 years.
posted by Lexicographer at 9:55 AM on June 12, 2023
posted by Lexicographer at 9:55 AM on June 12, 2023
Yeah, not even a digital distributor as of yet. I'm sure MetaFilter will be alerted if it is available to be seen anywhere.
posted by hippybear at 1:50 PM on June 13, 2023
posted by hippybear at 1:50 PM on June 13, 2023
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