Ferron - Still Riot

Still Riot
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"... While Ferron's vaguely new age, femme-centric music qualifies her as the missing link between Joni Mitchell and the Indigo Girls, the smooth adult contemporary jazz pop of Still Riot sounds closer to Rickie Lee Jones ... or piano lounge-era Tom Waits. ...the arrangements are clean and unstylized. The lyrics can be clumsy, awkward, and imprecise, but more often Ferron captures dead-on the confusion, vulnerability, discovery, and growth that goes into life. She tells her own stories, but with a simple dignity and warmth that can spark a listener's personal memories. This quality, ambiguous as it seems, makes the difference between the self-indulgent diarist many songwriters become and the useful, giving artist."
--Roni Sarig (Amazon.com)

• The Chosen Ones
• Alice Says Yes
• Venus As Appearances
• Still Riot
• Primitive Future
• Takes A Little Time (Intro)
• Takes A Little Time
• Ain't Life A Brook
• I Am Hungry
• Dazzle The Beast
• Signals And Messages
• Easy With Love

self-portrait

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods,
I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned,
If you can know despair or see it in others.
I want to know If you are prepared to iive in the world with its harsh need to change you.
If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know il you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.