Knuckle Down

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Knuckle Down
Studio album by Ani DiFranco
Released	January 25, 2005
Genre	Indie rock Folk rock
Length	57:07
Label	Righteous Babe
Producer	Ani DiFranco Joe Henry
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link musicOMH.com (Positive) link
Ani DiFranco chronology
Educated Guess (2004) Knuckle Down (2005) Reprieve (2006)

Knuckle Down is the fourteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It is the first album that DiFranco has collaborated with a producer; Joe Henry. The record is also her first studio album to feature a string section. It is considered^[who?] among her most accessible records, and compared to the stark Educated Guess, it is more abundantly produced.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

1. "Knuckle Down" – 4:34
2. "Studying Stones" – 3:53
3. "Manhole" – 3:45
4. "Sunday Morning" – 4:49
5. "Modulation" – 4:31
6. "Seeing Eye Dog" – 4:02
7. "Lag Time" – 5:13
8. "Parameters" – 5:58
9. "Callous" – 5:46
10. "Paradigm" – 4:33
11. "Minerva" – 4:55
12. "Recoil" – 5:08

[edit] Personnel

• Ani DiFranco – guitar, vocals
• Jay Bellerose – percussion, drums
• Andrew Bird – violin, Glockenspiel, whistling
• Tony Scherr – electric guitar
• Todd Sickafoose – Wurlitzer, string bass
• Patrick Warren – piano, sampling, Chamberlin
• Julie Wolf – melodica
• Noe Venable – vocals
• Niki Haris – vocals

[edit] Production

• Ani DiFranco – producer, design
• Greg Calbi – mastering
• S. "Husky" Hoskulds – engineer, mixing
• Jason Mott – engineer, assistant
• Danny Clinch – portrait photography
• Eric Frick – photography
• Brian Grunert – design

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2005	The Billboard 200	49
2005	Top Independent Albums	4

v • d • e Ani DiFranco Discography Studio albums Ani DiFranco · Not So Soft · Imperfectly · Puddle Dive · Like I Said: Songs 1990-91 · Out of Range · Not a Pretty Girl · Dilate · Little Plastic Castle · Up Up Up Up Up Up · To the Teeth · Revelling/Reckoning · Evolve · Educated Guess · Knuckle Down · Reprieve Live albums An Acoustic Evening With · Living in Clip · Women in (E)motion · So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter · Atlanta - 10.9.03 · Sacramento - 10.25.03 · Portland - 4.7.04 · Boston - 11.16.03 · Chicago - 1.17.04 · Madison - 1.25.04 · Rome - 11.15.04 · Carnegie Hall - 4.6.02 · Boston - 11.10.06 · Hamburg, Germany - 10.18.07 Compilation albums Canon EPs More Joy, Less Shame · Little Plastic Remixes · Swing Set Demos Demo tape Related articles Righteous Babe Records