Amy Ray: How The Indigo Girls Became The Greatest Band of All Time
LGBTQ&A
Jeffrey Masters
4.7 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When Amy Ray first started playing music with her Indigo Girls bandmate, Emily Saliers, her "head felt like it was going to explode". She remembers thinking, "This is amazing. Not, we sound amazing. But this feels amazing. It was always about, This feels amazing."
They've been playing together for over 35 years now and it's their music that the queer community (and Greta Gerwig in the new Barbie movie) continues to return to again and again. Amy joins us to talk about the band's legacy, coming out publicly in the '90s, and the lasting power of "Closer to Fine".
LGBTQ&A is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and if you were to put a gun to my head and say, quick, name the greatest band of all time, I would say, |
| 0:11.7 | um, put the gun down, you're being a bit extra. The answer is easy. It is, of course, the Indigo Girls. |
| 0:18.3 | Closer I am to find. Yeah. Closer I am to find. course, the Indigo Girls. |
| 0:34.0 | And, you know, I would love to be able to put in words why their music hits me in such a deep place. |
| 0:39.4 | It's something about their harmony and lyrics, about the extreme storytelling abilities it exuded for almost four decades. But I don't know. I'm not a music writer, right? |
| 0:45.5 | I'm just a gay millennial with a podcast. But what I do know is that more than any other band, |
| 0:52.2 | it is their music that I keep returning to again and again and again. |
| 0:56.8 | And so, as you can assume, I was pretty excited to see their song Closer to Find play such a big |
| 1:03.0 | role in the new Barbie movie. So I wanted to pop in now while we're on a break for two big reasons. |
| 1:09.1 | One, to re-share this interview that I did with the great |
| 1:12.6 | Amy Ray, she is one half of the Indigo Girls, and two to say that a new season is coming this |
| 1:19.3 | fall. Now, I've been collecting interviews all summer, and if you have any great suggestions for |
| 1:24.1 | guests, any queer elder specifically, the new season is once again only featuring queer elders. |
| 1:30.1 | And if you have any suggestions maybe for someone you know or someone you're just curious about |
| 1:34.1 | when you hear from, I'd love to hear all about it. |
| 1:36.8 | So you can reach out and find me on social media. |
| 1:39.3 | I'm on there at Jeff Masters 1 or shoot me an email if that's easier. |
| 1:43.5 | So if you prefer that, my email is Jeffrey. |
| 1:46.2 | That's J-E-F-F-F-R-E-Y. |
| 1:48.8 | So Jeffrey Masters1 at gmail.com. |
| 1:52.9 | All right, without further ado, this is LGBTQ and A with Amy Ray. |
| 2:03.5 | I want to jump right in. |
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