lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: damo

2011-12-19: thirty years on, the indigo girls continue to grow with beauty queen sister, glide magazine:

gm: i like how you fit in some more "traditional" sounding indigo girls songs, like "john" and "feed and water the horses" with some stuff that just really changes the game- stuff we've never really heard from you- like "damo" and "yoke." those first two are emily songs and the last two are yours. what was the conversation between you and emily in reconciling all of these songs?

ar: a song like "damo" came later, because i'd already worked on that song with john reynolds, who produced come on now social, and together we'd been working via email on "damo," where i'd send him the song and he'd send me a loop, where i was using my 8-track machine and he was doing things digitally, and so we created this piece that, as the record developed, became something that i wanted to bring to the table even though it was pretty much finished, because i felt it could add this other element that was needed for the album, soundscape-wise. and emily's always open-minded with things like that- she definitely is not only open but interested in hearing those sorts of things.