Product Description "Ravishingly melodic!" -- Ani Difranco Boots is an urban odyssey, seen through the eyes of a girl. Unlike Noes previous records, in which she usually seemed to be singing as characters she had invented-- (a servant to a sorcerer, a doomed Cessna pilot, a dying transvestite...), Boots is strongly rooted in Noes own experience as a woman. "In so many of my favorite stories," says Noe,"these troubled men dream of finding a woman to save them. You read stories like that and you're troubled, and you start dreaming of the same thing. Then one day you wake up and say, Wait, I am the woman in those stories. But I'm troubled! So now who's going to save me? I think that's where Boots begins." Boots is a living room effort, born of 6 months of sonic experimentation and obsessive tinkering. Arrangements are lush, featuring electric guitars, violin, keyboards, old synths, drums, and many sounds that producer Todd Sickafoose and Venable can't remember how they made. About the Artist "Here we have a homegrown, full blown young musical visionary, and a window into a part of the new San Francisco sound. This train is headed somewhere..." --puremusic.com "Always provocative... Venable writes like Emily Dickinson on mushrooms." --SF Reader "She's the freshest voice in San Francisco." --San Francisco Magazine
