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Amy Ray

Amy Ray

Feeding the spark

by Erick Trickey

posted 10/1/2005

Indigo Girl Amy Ray's new solo album, Prom, starts with an affectionate glimpse of a bunch of high school misfits, "the punks and the queers and the freaks and the smokers." They're waiting for rides, feeling "like they'll be waiting for the rest of their lives." Then she sets her dusky alto loose on a chorus that could be a manifesto for all her music: "I've

 
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