Canon is a retrospective album by Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...

 which was released on September 11, 2007. It contains songs covering her career to date. DiFranco re-recorded five songs that had been previously released: "Both Hands", "Overlap", "Napoleon", "Shameless" and "Your Next Bold Move".

The album spans from DiFranco's first studio album, Ani DiFranco, released in 1990, to her then most recent, Reprieve, which was released in 2006. DiFranco personally selected the songs that appear on Canon.

Track listing

All songs written by Ani DiFranco.

There is a misprint on the package. The numbers 10 and 11 are transposed in the track list on the back, though the titles are in the correct sequence.
Canon One

1. "Fire Door" – 2:58
   • from Like I Said (1993); originally on Ani DiFranco (1990)
2. "God's Country" – 2:48
   • from Puddle Dive (1993)
   • Rory McLeod – harmonica
3. "You Had Time" – 5:47
   • From Out of Range (1994)
4. "Buildings and Bridges" – 4:02
   • From Out of Range (1994)
   • Alisdair Jones – bass
5. "Coming Up" – 2:30
6. "Cradle & All" – 4:17
7. "Shy" – 4:46
8. "32 Flavors" – 6:07
   • 5-8 from Not a Pretty Girl (1995)
9. "Dilate" – 4:46
   • From Dilate (1996)
   • Michael Ramos – hammond organ
10. "Distracted" – 1:08
    • From Living in Clip (1997)
11. "Gravel" – 4:13
    • From Living in Clip (1997); original studio recording on Little Plastic Castle (1998)
12. "Untouchable Face" – 3:37
13. "Joyful Girl" – 4:29
    • 12-13 from Living in Clip (1997); original studio recordings on Dilate (1996)
14. "Little Plastic Castle" – 4:03
    • From Little Plastic Castle (1998)
    • John Mills – baritone sax
    • Gary Slechta – trumpet
    • Jon Blondell – trombone
15. "Fuel" – 4:00
    • From Little Plastic Castle (1998)
16. "As Is" – 4:06
    • From Little Plastic Castle (1998)
    • Jerry Marotta – drums
17. "Napoleon" (New version) – 4:37
    • Joseph Arthur – backing vocals
    • Greg Dulli – wurlitzer
18. "Shameless" (New version) – 4:11
    • 17-18 original recordings on Dilate (1996)

Canon Two

1. "Hello Birmingham" – 5:18
   • From To the Teeth (1999)
2. "This Box Contains" – 0:28
3. "Grey" – 5:10
4. "Prison Prism" – 1:34
   • 2-4 from Reckoning (2002)
5. "Marrow" – 5:18
   • From Revelling (2002)
6. "Here For Now" – 3:06
   • From Evolve (2003)
   • Ravi Best – trumpet, voice
   • Todd Horton – trumpet, flugelhorn
7. "Subdivision" – 3:45
   • From Reckoning (2002)
   • Contains part of a recording from the album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere
     The Past Didn't Go Anywhere
     The Past Didn't Go Anywhere is an album by American folksinger Utah Phillips and American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released October 15, 1996, on Ani DiFranco's label, Righteous Babe Records....
     
     (1996) by Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco
8. "Rain Check" – 4:00
9. "Swim" – 3:05
   • 8-9 from Educated Guess (2004)
10. "Paradigm" – 4:33
    • Tony Scherr – electric guitar
    • Niki Haris – voice
11. "Manhole" – 3:44
12. "Studying Stones" – 3:50
    • 10-12 from Knuckle Down (2005)
13. "Hypnotized" – 4:11
14. "78% H2O" – 3:30
15. "Millennium Theater" – 3:16
    • 13-15 from Reprieve (2006)
16. "Your Next Bold Move" (New version) – 4:58
    • Original recording on Reckoning (2002)
17. "Both Hands" (New version) – 3:21
    • Original recording on Ani DiFranco (1990)
18. "Overlap" (New version) – 5:20
    • Original recording on Out of Range (1994)

Personnel

Additional personnel noted in track listing.
Both discs:

• Ani DiFranco:
  • vocals/voice on all tracks.
  • all instruments (One: 18; Two: 8-9)
  • all other instruments & sounds not performed by Todd Sickafoose (13-15)
  • all guitar (One: 17; Two: 6)
  • acoustic guitar (One: 1-9, 10-13, 16; Two: 1 & 7)
  • acoustic baritone guitar (Two: 3, 5)
  • bass guitar (One: 6-9)
  • electric guitar (One: 6; Two: 2, 4)
  • steel guitar (One: 6)
  • tenor guitar (One: 14-15)
  • guitar (Two: 10-12, 16-18)
  • percussion (Two: 17)
  • piano (One: 3)
  • shakers (Two: 7)
  • thumb piano & percussion (One: 5 & 8)
  • vibes (Two: 18)
  • wurlitzer (Two: 16-17)

• Mike Dillon
  Mike Dillon (musician)
  Mike Dillon is a percussionist, vibraphonist, bandleader, vocalist and songwriter born in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of Critters Buggin, Les Claypool's Fancy Band and Garage A Trois...
  
   – vibraphone (One: 17; Two: 16, 18); percussion (Two: 16)
• Jason Mercer – bass (One: 14-15; Two: 5-7); electric bass (Two: 1); bowed bass (Two: 3)
• Allison Miller – drums (One: 17; Two: 17-18); percussion (Two: 17)
• Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose
  Todd Sickafoose is an American jazz and rock bassist originally from the San Francisco Bay Area who now lives in Brooklyn, New York.He is best known for playing bass with Ani DiFranco, but he has also led his own group called, "Todd Sickafoose's Blood Orange".Sickafoose has been a member of the...
  
   – bass (One: 17); acoustic bass (Two: 12-15); string bass (Two: 10-12); upright bass (Two: 17-18); wurlitzer (Two: 11, 14-15); piano, pump organ (Two: 13)

One only:

• Sara Lee
  Sara Lee (musician)
  Sara Lee is an English bassist and singer-songwriter, best known for replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in post-punk band Gang of Four. Lee confirmed in an interview on Rundgrenradio.com that Sara Lee is her birth name.-Biography:...
  
   – bass (11, 12, 16); vocals (12)
• Andy Stochansky – drums (4, 6-9, 11-15); vocals (11-12); percussion (8 & 13)

Two only:

• Jay Bellerose – drums & percussion (10-12)
• Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird
  Andrew Bird is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.- Early life and the Bowl of Fire :...
  
   – violin, glockenspiel, whistling (11-12)
• Shane Endsley – trumpet (5, 6); shakers (7)
• Daren Hahn – drums (1, 5-7); percussion (6); shakers (7)
• Hans Teuber – clarinet (5-7); all saxophones, flute, voice (6)
• David Torkanowsky – keyboards, bass (16); percussion (17); wurlitzer (18)
• Noe Venable
  Noe Venable
  Noe Venable is an experimental folk/pop singer-songwriter. She has earned a loyal fan base in her native San Francisco, in part through frequently performing in small, intimate venues...
  
  – voice (10-12)
• Patrick Warren – chamberlin, piano, sampler (10-12)
• Julie Wolf – piano (1, 3, 6-7); organ (1, 6-7); accordion (3, 5); rhodes (5-6); vocals/voice (5-7); melodica, clavinet (6)

Production

• New versions recorded by Mike Napolitano at the dugout in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Mixed by Mike Napolitano and Ani DiFranco
• Mastered by Bruce Barielle
• Original version compilation mastered by Bruce Barielle
• Produced by Ani DiFranco
• Album oil paintings by Thomas Kegler

External links

• Canon at Righteous Babe Records