First introduced to me at summer camp, the Indigo Girls quickly found a way into my adolescent heart. Camp was, for me, a time of faux-hippie transformation and exploration of my counselors’ CD collections. The Indigo Girls’ compilation album, Retrospective, became the perfect background music to a clichéd summer filled with flowered headbands and flowy skirts.
Female empowered lyrics from “Three Hits” and “Reunion” fueled all rebellion against the male authorities and the folksy chords brought out the angsty singer in all my bunkmates.
Ten years later as the rich humming streams through my ear buds, I’m brought back to days sitting in fields singing wisely about love unknown and hopeful change. The soul-warming guitars, violins and deep female voices are still ready to share a burden or lift a spirit.
