Revelling/Reckoning

Revelling/Reckoning
Studio album by Ani DiFranco
Released	April 10, 2001
Genre	Indie rock folk rock
Length	118:10
Label	Righteous Babe
Producer	Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco chronology
To the Teeth (1999) Revelling/Reckoning (2001) So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter (2002)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(78/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	(positive)[3]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
musicOMH	(positive)[6]
Neumu.net	[7]
Robert Christgau	B−[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
Slant	[10]
Spin	(9/10)[1]
The Village Voice	(positive)[11]
Wall of Sound	(70/100)[1]

Revelling/Reckoning is the 11th studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 2001 on Righteous Babe Records. It is a double album of winding, narrative, acoustic-based songs.

The lead track of Reckoning, "Your Next Bold Move", was included on the 2002 political compilation GASCD.

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.

Revelling

1. "Ain't That the Way" – 5:14
2. "O.K." – 2:51
3. "Garden of Simple" – 3:54
4. "Tamburitza Lingua" – 5:07
5. "Marrow" – 5:19
6. "Heartbreak Even" – 3:36
7. "Harvest" – 1:04
8. "Kazoointoit" – 3:51
9. "Whatall Is Nice" – 4:36
10. "What How When Where (Why Who)" – 5:58
11. "Fierce Flawless" – 5:04
12. "Rock Paper Scissors" – 6:00
13. "Beautiful Night" – 6:25

Reckoning

1. "Your Next Bold Move" – 5:47
2. "This Box Contains..." – 0:29
3. "Reckoning" – 6:02
4. "So What" – 5:03
5. "Prison Prism" – 1:34
6. "Imagine That" – 4:01
7. "Flood Waters" – 0:47
8. "Grey" – 5:22
9. "Subdivision" – 3:57
10. "Old Old Song" – 4:22
11. "Sick of Me" – 5:21
12. "Don't Nobody Know" – 1:17
13. "School Night" – 4:54
14. "That Was My Love" – 1:03
15. "Revelling" – 5:08
16. "In Here" – 4:16

Personnel

• Ani DiFranco – record producer, mixer, acoustic guitar, drums, electric guitar, vocals, tambur, tongue drum, key bass, baritone guitar, bass, tenor guitar, piano, shaker, honky keys
• Shane Endsley – trumpet, shaker, voice
• Daren Hahn – drums, percussion, voice
• Jason Mercer – acoustic bass, electric bass, bowed bass, voice, kazoo
• Hans Teuber – clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, voice
• Julie Wolf – rhodes, accordion, singing, clavinet, piano, organ, melodica, pianet,
• Scot Fisher – voice
• Maceo Parker – saxophone, singing
• Jon Hassell – trumpet
• Mark Hallman – singing
• Lloyd Maines – pedal steel
• Andrew 'Goat Boy' Gilchrist – recording, mixer

Charts

Chart (2001)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[12]	78
US Billboard 200	50
US Top Independent Albums	1
US Top Internet Albums	2

References

1. Critic reviews at Metacritic
2. Ratner, Darren. Revelling/Reckoning at AllMusic
3. The A.V. Club review
4. Cherry, Robert (April 13, 2001). "Revelling/Reckoning Review". Entertainment Weekly. No. 591. p. 76. Archived from the original on April 21, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
5. Los Angeles Times review^[dead link‍]
6. musicOMH review
7. Neumu.net review
8. Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
9. "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2007.
10. Slant review
11. "The Village Voice review". Archived from the original on October 20, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
12. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

External links

• Revelling/Reckoning at Metacritic