Ani DiFranco: Just an Old Fashioned Girl (with Blue Hair)
Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, February 1998
JUST WHO is Ani DiFranco anyway? Doc Martin-clad punk-poet icon, do-it-yourself business guru, feminist folksinger: there are so many sides to this Buffalo girl from upstate New York that she's almost round just as she sings in one of her many confessional strums, "I am 32 flavors and then some."
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