lifeblood: bootlegs: 2024


2024-01-15: roots rednecks and radicals podcast (amy ray)
an excellent sounding capture of a neat interview, amy talks about barbie, writing songs about the south, project say something, allison russell, "chuck will's widow", h.c. mcentire, "jesus was a walking man" and the border, and her band and the upcoming tour with dar williams.

2024-01-15: marjorie luke theatre - santa barbara, california (with dar williams) (amy ray)
a nice sounding audience recording of the entire show, including both dar williams and the amy ray band's full sets. this was a really special tour, highlights include "oh city man", "iowa (traveling iii)" (dar williams with amy ray), "chuck will's widow" (amy ray with dar williams), and "as cool as i am" (dar williams with amy ray).

2024-01-19: jeffrey masters - how the indigo girls became the greatest band of all time (amy ray)
an excellent sounding capture of an outstanding interview with amy, topics include amy and emily's sexuality, their longtime support of each other and their partnership, "ghost", their classic songs, "land of canaan", pronouns in cover songs, coming out in the press, and brandi carlile.

2024-01-19: center for the arts - grass valley, california (with dar williams) (amy ray)
a little muffled but otherwise really nice sounding audience recording of the entire show, including both dar williams and the amy ray bands' full sets. highlights include "dadgum down" and a completely unplugged "chuck will's widow" (amy ray with dar williams).

2024-01-29: tumbleroot brewery and distillery - santa fe, new mexico (amy ray)
a little muffled but otherwise really nice sounding audience recording of a great show, the crowd is even able to coax amy and the band back out for a rare encore ("the gig that matters"). highlights include a rare performance of "broken record" and the sequence of "dadgum down" into "bus bus" into "laramie".

2024-01-31: kxci - tucson, arizona (amy ray band)
an excellent sounding recording of a neat in studio radio station appearance. highlights include the interview segments and terrific live renditions of "joy train", "subway", and "a mighty thing".

2024-02-21: emily saliers' music room - decatur, georgia (virtual benefit for the lillian carter center for global health and social responsibility student immersion program for the dominican republic)
a really good sounding audio capture of a neat fundraiser. guests include the leader of the immersion program as well as some of the students. lyris also sits in with amy and emily, and emily's dog gracie steals the show. highlights include "i'll change" and "starkville".

2024-02-27: meyer theatre - green bay, wisconsin
a little muffled but otherwise really good sounding audio capture from a live stream. highlights include "three county highway", "come on home", and ari hest guesting on "kid fears" and "closer to fine".

2024-02-29: uptown theatre - kansas city, missouri
a little distant but otherwise really good sounding audio capture from a live stream. highlights include "cold beer and remote control", "fugitive", "mystery", "faye tucker", and a great story about amy meeting joni mitchell leading up to "when we were writers".

2024-03-03: acl live at the moody theater - austin, texas
a little distant but otherwise really good sounding audio capture from a live stream. highlights include everything lloyd maines sits in on and especially "southland in the springtime" and "texas was clean". kristi lee does a terrific job on "kid fears" and "closer to fine". lyris's improvised intros to "the wood song" are always amazing, but this night she takes things to a whole nother level.

2024-03-12: today show on sirius channel 108
an excellent sounding capture of a short interview with amy and emily, they touch on "it's only life after all", songs that fans say impacted them the most, and songs they are most proud of writing.

2024-03-28: david geffen hall - new york, new york (music and conversation with npr's ann powers)
a distant but definitely worth the listen audio recording of a really, really neat evening. conversations and all the live performances were done sitting down, and standouts include "love's recovery", "joy train", "something real", "go", and "train inside".

2024-04-10: braves country podcast (amy ray)
an excellent sounding capture of a neat home town interview, topics include hank aaron, racism, the fox theatre fundraising show, movie appearances, upcoming tour plans, "the gig that matters", amy's favorite songs to play, southern food, and local theaters.

2024-04-12: the schaefer center for the performing arts - boone, north carolina
a really nice sounding audio capture from a live stream. the occasion was amy's 60th birthday, and lyris worked "happy birthday" into the intro to "the wood song". there are great extended interactions with the crowd before "i'll change" and "when we were writers", and highlights include "i'll change", "faye tucker", and annie humphrey sitting in on an incredible "go-cortez the killer".

2024-04-20: bradley symphony center - milwaukee, wisconsin (with the milwaukee symphony orchestra)
a little distant but otherwise nice sounding audio capture of a live stream. highlights include "change my heart", "ghost", "howl at the moon", and "yoke".

2024-04-23: the monica pearson show - atlanta, georgia
an excellent sounding audio capture from the live stream. an extended home town interview, topics include the fox theater, their activism, the "it's only life after all" documentary, barbie, and their careers and longevity.

2024-04-23: 99x - atlanta, georgia - the morning x with barnes and leslie
an excellent sounding audio capture from the live stream. an neat telephone interview that talks about brandi's speech at the americana music awards, barbie, the "it's only life after all" documentary, "glitter and doom", and their career and longevity.

2024-05-01: ruby diamond concert hall - tallahassee, florida
a little distant but otherwise really nice sounding audio capture of a live stream. highlights include "damo", "come on home", "didn't know a damn thing", "pendulum swinger", and kristy lee sitting in on "kid fears".

2024-05-07: barbara b. mann performing arts hall - fort myers, florida
a little distant but otherwise really nice sounding audio capture of a live stream. the last regular show before the summer break, highlights include lucy wainwright roche's full set, "something real", "olympia inn", "come on home", and "three county highway".

2024-05-16: birthplace of country music museum - bristol, virginia (radio bristol's farm and fun time program) (amy ray band)
an excellent sounding audio capture from the live stream. highlights include "joy train", "anyhow", "sparrow's boogie", and "oyster and pearl"

2024-05-24: out of the box theatrics - new york, new york (emily saliers)
a really good sounding audience recording of a neat evening. murray hill, beth malone, elizabeth stanley, and claybourne elder share the stage and also join in a conversation, an audience q and a, "ghost", "love will come to you", "look long", "galileo", "closer to fine", and two songs from the yet to be released "starstruck" musical.

2024-06-10: village folk show on channel 27 - siriusxm
an excellent sounding capture of a "glitter and doom" feature, including some short interview segments and album versions of both indigo girls songs and songs from the film.

2024-06-12: performance anxiety podcast (jeff fielder)
an excellent sounding audio capture of an extended interview with jeff fielder. he talks about his career and development and tells some great stories, including about his time working with amy ray.

2024-06-18: southern living - biscuits and jam podcast
an excellent sounding audio capture of an extended, unique interview with both amy and emily. they both talk at length about their families and growing up in georgia, being gay and the music business, and "what we wanna be".

2024-07-20: wmfo - medford, massachusetts (something about women)
an excellent sounding audio capture of a neat two hour radio special highlighting amy and emily's music, including their hits and also deep cuts.

2024-08-05: wgbh - boston, massachusetts (the culture show)
an excellent sounding audio capture of a neat, thoughful interview with both amy and emily. topics include "barbie" and "it's only life after all", the energy and the joy and the community they experience at their shows, and the arc of their careers and their lives and parenthood.

2024-08-07: wtop - washington, d.c. (wolftrap preview)
an excellent sounding audio capture of a short preview for their upcoming wolftrap show. includes a couple of short segments from emily.

2024-08-07: wtop - washington, d.c. (emily saliers)

2024-08-17: leader bank pavilion - boston, massachusetts (co-headline with melissa etheridge)

2024-08-20: wjff - jeffersonville, new york (radio catskill) (amy ray)

2024-08-24: wolf trap - vienna, virginia (co-headline with melissa etheridge)

2024-09-12: the ones that you love: recapping indigo girls' and melissa etheridge's summer tour '24 - perfect world - an indigo girls fan podcast
an excellent sounding audio capture of a neat conversation.

2024-09-13: gerald r. ford amphitheater - vail, colorado (co-headline with amos lee, amos lee to close)
a really nice sounding audience recording of the first night of the indigo girls with band/amos lee tour. this entire run of shows was exceptional, and thankfully most of the shows were recorded. highlights include "k.c. girl", "yoke", "least complicated", "shed your skin", "look long", "scooter boys", "lay my head down", "trouble", "tether", an incredible new arrangement and performance of "from this room", and amos lee guesting on "closer to fine". incredible.

2024-09-14: dillon amphitheatre - dillon, colorado (co-headline with amos lee, indigo girls to close)
another really nice sounding audience recording from this same run of exceptional band shows. highlights include "joking", "mystery", "faye tucker", and "collecting you".

2024-09-15: red rocks amphitheatre - morrison, colorado (opening for amos lee)
another really nice sounding audience recording, and another exceptional band show. a shorter set as this was an opening slot rather than a co-headline show, highlights include an accepted proposal in the audience that was shown live on the big screens during "power of two", and "faye tucker", "mystery", and "tether". "land of canaan" is performed as an acoustic duo.

2024-09-20: the fox theatre - tucson, arizona
a really nice sounding recording taken from a web stream, this time of a "regular" show with garrison starr opening and indigo girls playing a full set. highlights include garrison starr's entire set, including "gin and juice". indigo girls highlights include "shit kickin'", "fleet of hope", "share the moon", "trouble", "scooter boys", "look long", "gone again", "soft line" (lucy wainwright roche), "olympia inn", "caramia", "from this room", "pendulum swinger", "tether", "come on home", and "cordova". another incredible show.

2024-09-21: kcsn - northridge, california (the socal sound with hillary gordon) (emily saliers)
an excellent sounding audio capture of a short interview with emily. topics include "it's only life after all", her relationship with amy, what she's listening to right now, and her current favorite indigo girls song.

2024-09-21: santa barbara bowl - santa barbara, california (co-headline with amos lee, indigo girls to close)
another really nice sounding audience recording of another terrific band show. highlights include "kid fears", "trouble", "yoke", "look long", "tether", "lay my head down", "from this room", "come on home", "fugitive", and amos lee guesting on "closer to fine". "go" was setlisted between "galileo" and "closer to fine" but was dropped at the last minute due to the venue curfew.

2024-09-24: the mountain winery - saratoga, california (co-headline with amos lee, amos lee to close)
another really nice sounding audience recording of yet another terrific show in this run. highlights include "share the moon", "pendulum swinger", "shit kickin'", "trouble", "from this room", "fleet of hope", "this song is about you 2" (lucy wainwright roche), and "tether". amos lee guests on "closer to fine".

2024-09-25: the masonic - san francisco, california (co-headline with amos lee, indigo girls to close)
another really nice sounding audience recording of a special, hootenanny style show. both amos lee and indigo girls played for 90 minutes each, an increase over the 75 minutes sets from the previous co-headline shows. highlights include the indigo girls set starting with a land acknowledgement from jonathan cordero, "scooter boys", "look long", corrina gould and jonathan cordero speaking with the crowd about the work of the sogorea te'land trust, an extra intense "go", "kid fears" with matt nathanson, "come on home", "heroin" (lucy wainwright roche), "tether", "faye tucker", "cordova", and both matt nathanson and amos lee guesting on "closer to fine" (matt did the guest verse).

2024-09-29: the fox theater - spokane, washington
a little distant but otherwise really nice audio capture from a webstream of a terrific show. the last night of the tour and the last known band show for the year. highlights include "moment of forgiveness", "trouble", "scooter boys", "mystery", "gone again", "pendulum swinger", "faye tucker", "cordova", "collecting you", and stephanie anne johnson guesting on "closer to fine".


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