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The Indigo Girls are an American folk-rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They got their start as part of the Athens, Georgia alternative music scene which included the The B-52's, Pylon, R.E.M., the Georgia Satellites, and Love Tractor.
The two women met as students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in De Kalb County, Georgia just outside of Decatur, Georgia. In high school, they started performing together. Emily graduated and started attending Tulane University. A year later, Amy graduated and started at Vanderbilt University. Homesick, both returned to Georgia and transferred to Emory University. By 1985, they started performing together again, this time as the Indigo Girls.
Their first release in 1985 was a seven-inch single called Crazy Game; the B side was Everybody's Waiting. That same year, they put out a six-track self-titled EP, and in 1987, released their first full-length album, Strange Fire, recorded at John Keane Studio in Athens, Georgia, and including Crazy Game.
The success of 10,000 Maniacs, Tracy Chapman, and Suzanne Vega encouraged Epic Records to look for other women singer-songwriters; Epic signed the duo in 1988.
Their first major-label release, also self-titled, included a new version of Land of Canaan, which was also on their 1985 EP and on Strange Fire.
In 1990, Amy founded Daemon Records, which has signed Ellen James Society, Kristen Hall and James Hall, among others.
The second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold, but was not as successful as their first. They followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all. 1992's comeback album Rites of Passage was an enormous success, as was Swamp Ophelia in 1994. In 1995, they released a live, double-CD, 1200 Curfews, followed by Shaming of the Sun in 1997 and Come on Now Social in 1999. 2000 saw the release of Retrospective, a re-release compilation with a few new tracks, but in 2002 the Indigo Girls released Become You, a full album of new songs. Their latest release, and last album for the Sony Epic label, is All That We Let In.
Albums
- Strange Fire (1987, independent 11-song version)
- Indigo Girls (1989)
- Strange Fire (1989, major-label 10-song version)
- Nomads*Indians*Saints (1990)
- Back on the Bus, Y'all (1991, live)
- Rites of Passage (1992)
- Swamp Ophelia (1994)
- 4.5 (1995, compilation, UK only)
- 1200 Curfews (1995, live)
- Shaming of the Sun (1997)
- Come On Now Social (1999)
- Retrospective (2000, compilation)
- Become You (2002)
- All That We Let In (2004)
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Indigo Girls - Swamp Ophelia by Rice T. John
Indigo Girls - Become You by Rubin
Nomads Indians Saints by Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage by Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls: Selections from 1200 Curfews by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
The Indigo Girls by Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls - Come On Now Social by Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls - Shaming of the Sun by Dale
Strange Fire by Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls-all That We Let In by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
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