Indie Music Video – Indigo Girls

Alright, 2 facts that I feel to be self evident:

1. everyone loves at least one Indigo Girls song at some point in their lives.
2. because they are awesome.

As you might guess, these are one of my close-to-heart bands. You know, bands you went through things with when you were young and things were heavy and drama-drenched, and though you may have moved on to maturity and new music, to pretend you didn’t still love them would be cruel to young you.

This year, thanks to a dimwitted label, they became free to be the indies they were always meant to be. So let’s celebrate the Indigo Girls, cut-off denim, mullets, passionate politics, painful lovely lyrics, and harmonies so intricate you can’t separate them out, they live together in your ears like one complete melody, and provide uniquely comforting company.

“We had just gotten dropped from our label, Hollywood, which for me and (Indigo Girls musical partner) Emily (Saliers) felt like a real blessing because that situation wasn’t very good,” Ray says. “We probably shouldn’t have even gone into it. But we’re excited now because we really feel like being without label is going to be a good thing for us for a while.”

Current plans call for the Indigo Girls to mount numerous stateside tours in support of the new disc. In fact, Ray hints the twosome may tour with a full band to begin with and then follow that up later with an acoustic duo jaunt.

As for songs expected to be on the next CD, both “Fleet of Hope” and “Sugar Tongue” are in the mix. Even though Ray admits there are live clips of the new songs already on YouTube, bootlegged versions of unreleased material is of little concern.

“We don’t mind it at all,” Ray says. “Like for us, it’s all just getting it out there and building the community. It’s fun and like when people were bootlegging shows in the old days.”

Billboard.

Unfortunately most of their pre-indie videos are only available on the Sony/Bmg youtube account which is non-embeddable. boooo.