Living in Clip is a live album

Live album

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 by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...

, released in 1997

1997 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...

. The title is from a comment made by live sound engineer Larry Berger, indicating that the amplifiers weren't merely being overdriven into clipping

Clipping (audio)

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 occasionally (which is not uncommon in live sound situations); they were clipping so much that they were "living in clip". Rolling Stone

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named it one of the "The Essential Recordings of the ‘90s".

Disc one

1. "Whatever" – 1:46
2. "Wherever" – 0:06
3. "Gravel" – 4:11
4. "Willing to Fight" – 4:12
5. "Shy" – 4:29
6. "Joyful Girl" – 4:26
7. "Hide and Seek" – 4:34
8. "Napoleon" – 4:54
9. "I'm No Heroine" – 4:16
10. "Amazing Grace
    Amazing Grace
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    " (John Newton
    John Newton
    John Henry Newton was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career on the sea at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of...
    
    ) – 6:17
11. "Anticipate" – 3:47
12. "Tiptoe" – 0:37
13. "Sorry I Am" – 4:46
14. "The Slant/The Diner" – 8:22
15. "32 Flavors
    32 Flavors
    "32 Flavors" is a song, written and performed by Ani DiFranco. The song was later covered by Alana Davis. The title of the song is a pun on Canton, Massachusetts-based ice cream store Baskin-Robbins and its well-known "31 flavors" slogan.-Ani DiFranco version:...
    
    " – 4:48
16. "Out of Range" – 4:27

Disc two

1. "Untouchable Face" – 3:36
2. "Shameless" – 4:35
3. "Distracted" – 1:08
4. "Adam and Eve" – 5:36
5. "Fire Door" – 4:03
6. "Both Hands" – 4:52
7. "Out of Habit" – 3:40
8. "Every State Line" – 3:55
9. "Not So Soft" – 4:00
10. "Travel Tips" – 1:05
11. "Wrong With Me" – 1:57
12. "In or Out" – 3:22
13. "We're All Gonna Blow" – 2:41
14. "Letter to a John" – 3:58
15. "Overlap" – 11:28

Personnel

• Ani DiFranco – acoustic guitar, bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Sara Lee
  Sara Lee (musician)
  Sara Lee is an English bassist and singer-songwriter, best known for replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in post-punk band Gang of Four. Lee confirmed in an interview on Rundgrenradio.com that Sara Lee is her birth name.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar, bass, vocals, bass pedals
  Bass pedals
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• Doc Severinsen
  Doc Severinsen
  Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...
  
   – conductor
  Conducting
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   on "Amazing Grace" and "Both Hands"
• Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
  Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
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   on "Amazing Grace" and "Both Hands"
• Andy Stochansky
  Andy Stochansky
  Andy Stochansky is a songwriter living in Los Angeles who was once signed to RCA U.S. He first started out as one the most wanted drummers in the Canadian music scene. His popularity caught the attention of songstress Ani DiFranco. Living just south of the border in Buffalo, New York, she asked him...
  
   – harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals

Production

• Producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   – Ani DiFranco
• Mixing
  Audio mixing (recorded music)
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   – Ani DiFranco, Andrew Gilchrist
• Mastering
  Audio mastering
  Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
  
   – Chris Bellman
• Arranger
  Arrangement
  The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
  
   – James Mabry ("Amazing Grace" and "Both Hands")
• Design
  Design
  Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
  
   – Ani DiFranco, Adam Sloan
• Layout design
  Page layout
  Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements on a page.- History and development :...
  
   – Ani DiFranco, Adam Sloan
• Photography
  Photography
  Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
  
  – Asia Kepka, Susan Alzner, Ani DiFranco, Scott Fisher, Matt Hagen, Thomas Hoebbel, Liam King, Dan Koeck, Heidi Kunkel, Liz Marshall, Andy Stochansky
• Cover photo – Asia Kepka

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1997	The Billboard 200	59