Women's Work (1996)

About this title: During the mid-'90s, singer/songwriters were beginning to be heard from in a big way, for the first time in decades. Both male and female composers were benefiting from the public's seemingly inexhaustible appetite for intimate poetry sung over acoustic or lightly processed electric backup. A vanguard of women artists in their twenties were just emerging, while established stars were being rediscovered by new audiences. The younger ones were reluctant realists who came of age in the shadow of the AIDS crisis, a generation who never knew the pleasures of immature irresponsibility. Not ... read more

Tracks:

1. Cradle and All [Live] [DiFranco]
2. The Wolf [Curtis]
3. When the Silence Falls [Ian]
4. Maryland [Shepard]
5. Just Enough
6. Notion [Kessler]
7. Letting Go [Joyce]
8. Wild Horse [Gilkyson]
9. Thru Cryin'
10. If You Leave Me Now [Love]
11. Testimony [Ferron]
12. Off the Ground
13. I Met a Man [Live] [Childs]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.