So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
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So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter is the second live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 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:...

, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music
2002 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.-Events:*February 3 – U2 perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVI...

).

The opening track of the second disc, "Comes a Time", is an excerpt from the famous speech by Mario Savio
Mario Savio
""...But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be - have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product! Don't mean - Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone!...

, given before Free Speech Movement
Free Speech Movement
The Free Speech Movement was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and...

 demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in on December 3, 1964. His climactic words about "the operation of the machine" have been quoted widely ever since, out of context, as the existential emblem of the FSM.

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.
Disc One
  1. "Swan Dive" – 6:48
  2. "Letter to a John/Tamburitza Lingua" – 7:50
  3. "Grey" – 5:31
  4. "Cradle and All" – 4:40
  5. "Whatall Is Nice" – 5:39
  6. "What How When Where (Why Who)" – 4:34
  7. "To the Teeth" – 7:09
  8. "Revelling" – 4:28
  9. "Napoleon" – 6:34
  10. "Shrug" – 4:36
  11. "Welcome To:" – 4:47


Disc Two
  1. "Comes a Time" – 0:22
  2. "Ain't That the Way" – 4:54
  3. "Dilate" – 5:55
  4. "Gratitude" – 3:49
  5. "Rock Paper Scissors" – 4:55
  6. "32 Flavors" – 4:02
  7. "Loom/Pulse" – 6:16
  8. "Not a Pretty Girl" – 3:20
  9. "Self Evident" – 9:10
  10. "Reckoning" – 5:22
  11. "My IQ" – 2:27
  12. "Jukebox" – 5:56
  13. "You Had Time" – 3:56

Personnel

  • Ani DiFranco – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Ravi Best – trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Shane Endsley – trumpet
  • Daren Hahn – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Todd Horton – trumpet
  • Jason Mercer
    Jason Mercer
    Jason Mercer is a multi-instrumental Canadian musician playing double bass, electric bass, banjo and guitar.He was a member of the alternative rock band Bourbon Tabernacle Choir in the 1980s and 1990s...

     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Hans Teuber – clarinet
    Clarinet
    The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

    , flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    , saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

    , vocals, background vocals
  • Julie Wolf – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , vocals

Production

  • Producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

     – Ani DiFranco
  • Engineering supervisor – Larry Berger, Andrew Gilchrist
  • Engineer – Andrew Gilchrist
  • Assistant engineer – Andrew Gilchrist
  • Mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
    In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

     – Ani DiFranco
  • Mastering
    Audio mastering
    Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...

     – Greg Calbi
  • Recording supervision – Larry Berger
  • Art direction
    Art director
    The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....

     – Ani DiFranco
  • Design
    Design
    Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

     – Ani DiFranco
  • Illustrations – Ani DiFranco
  • Photography
    Photography
    Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

    – Susan Alzner, Larry Berger, Scott Fisher, Eric Frick, Heidi Kunkel, Jason Mercer, Julie Wolf.

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
2002 The Billboard 200 32
2002 Top Independent Albums 1
2002 Top Internet Albums 34
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