Feels Like Home.(living)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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BYLINE: DOUG ELFMAN, REVIEW-JOURNAL

Ani DiFranco's intimate new album, "Educated Guess," is intense. It's moody. It's minimalist. It's complicated. At times, DiFranco's intensity comes from the ways she careens and caresses her acoustic guitar. Other times, it's the singer's brash vocal delivery that seems so ruggedly American -- and yet at odds with the slick CDs at Wal-Mart.

Of the 20 or so albums that DiFranco has put out, "Educated Guess" is her favorite, because she recorded it in solitude on an eight-track, reel-to-reel machine.

"For me it's the sound of home," she says. "You can hear the train...

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