Not a Pretty Girl is the sixth studio album released by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 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:...

 on her own record label, Righteous Babe Records

Righteous Babe Records

Righteous Babe Records is an American independent record label. It was created by progressive folksinger Ani DiFranco in 1990 to release her own songs in lieu of being beholden to a mainstream record company.-History:...

. It was released July 18, 1995. The album extended the folk singer

Folk music

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's early formula of acoustic guitar and drums

Drum kit

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. On subsequent records, DiFranco would add electric guitar

Electric guitar

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, horns

Horn (instrument)

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, band members and guest musicians, but on Not a Pretty Girl she was accompanied by 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...

's percussion alone.

According to AllMusic, "Light of Some Kind" is a "deeply felt portrait...in which the singer seems to be confessing to a man that she has been unfaithful to him with a woman" Released on Living in Clip, the track "Shy" earned DiFranco a 1997 Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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 nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

Track listing

All songs by Ani DiFranco.

1. "Worthy" – 4:31
2. "Tiptoe" – :36
3. "Cradle and All" – 4:18
4. "Shy" – 4:43
5. "Sorry I Am" – 4:45
6. "Light of Some Kind" – 4:07
7. "Not a Pretty Girl" – 3:55
8. "The Million You Never Made" – 4:18
9. "Hour Follows Hour" – 6:01
10. "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:...
    
    " – 6:07
11. "Asking Too Much" – 2:55
12. "This Bouquet" – 2:28
13. "Crime for Crime" – 5:42
14. "Coming Up" – 4:45
    • In a pregap, you can hear DiFranco reciting the spoken word track "Tip-Toe", but misspeaking before restarting.
15. "32 Flavors" [live bonus track] – 4:47
    • Appears on some versions.

Personnel

• Ani DiFranco – guitar
  Guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
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• Andy Stochansky – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion instrument/percussion

Production

• Producer
  Record producer
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   – Ani DiFranco
• Engineer – Ed Stone

Artwork

The CD

Compact Disc

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case of Not a Pretty Girl is designed to be looked at "the wrong way 'round", with the spine on the right hand side rather than the left.