The Indigo Girls Look Long
Ahead of a Sept. 30 Ryman show with Linda Perry, the seminal folk-rock duo discusses reflection and change
By Annie Parnell / Nashville Scene
After more than four decades working together, Indigo Girls are still evolving. In 2020, the duo released their most recent LP, Look Long — a reflective record with roots in drives to-and-from Nashville from their home turf in Georgia. Look Long continues Amy Ray and Emily Saliers’ career of musical activism. It also has the expansive view of existence that’s become an Indigo Girls trademark, braiding science, religion and politics into a syncretic way of looking at the world.
Before their fall run of shows, the pair announced that Saliers had been diagnosed with two movement disorders that affect her ability to sing. “We’re trying to look at this organically, as a process of our own aging,” she shared. The shows continue, and on Sept. 30, they’ll play the Ryman with support from Linda Perry, who might be best known as frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes but released a new solo LP, Let It Die Here, in May. Ahead of the show, Saliers and Ray caught up with the Scene about reflection and change — and teased new music. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.