The Indigo Girls pull you in with their incredible lyrics, heartfelt vocals, and voices that can range from soft and sensual to tormented and wild. They play to every possible human emotion, and their music seems to dive right into the depths of your soul, where you thought you'd never let anyone in, and touch you in a way no other band ever could. Their first album has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a little girl, and as I grew I also began to appreciate it in different ways. "Closer To Fine" will always make me smile and hum along. "Blood and Fire" makes me remember the love of my life, and how I would felt when he left - it tears at me every time I hear it because it simply rings so true. If you are thinking about buying this album, I cannot tell you enough that this will be the best money ever spent on a CD - well worth it!

I already had a number of IG CDs when I found this Gold Disc in the music store. I bought it on the spot and ran home to play it on my CD player. I played it over and over and swapped the original silver CD with the Gold CD to see if I could tell a difference, and I couldn't.

The CD comes in a cool cardboard/paper sleeve that the jewel box fits in, but other than that, and the gold color (and 24kt gold content) of the disc, there is absolutely no difference... especially in the sound.

When you turn the volume up all the way on both the original, you hear the pops and squeaks as the guitarists hands and fingers move along the strings. The gold edition of this disc still includes these pops and squeaks. They weren't removed, and if this gold version is supposedly "re-mastered" from the original, it must have been re-mastered for the hearing range of bats, because I can not tell the difference.

If you're into collecting everything they've ever done, or you don't already own the original version of this CD, this is a good buy... the gold version will supposedly last longer, but it's not like you're going to be saving the silver version for your great-great grandchildren. Unless you leave your CDs on the dashboard of your car in the hot sun, the silver version should last past your life time anyway.

Their voices are powerful and the harmonizing artistic. Hard to believe voices and acoutistic guitar is all that they needed to make such a fun and fantastic CD.

I had been working as a counselor at a summer camp in 1989... it was a resident (sleep over) camp and I only had one night a week that I could go home (Dallas at the time). I was driving on my way home when "Closer to Fine" played on KDGE (94.5 FM, Dallas). I had never heard anything quite like it. I nearly had a wreck getting to a payphone so I could call the station and ask who it was that I just heard.

I've bought a lot of CDs from one-hit-wonder bands before, so I looked for a single first... since there wasn't one, I bit the bullet and bought the CD. It was hardly a one-hit wonder! Wow, what a great debut CD! One penetrating song after another, all featuring the awesome harmony of the great voices of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers... in tandem with dueling guitars, 6-string & 12-string, and a few banjos to boot.

They have a sound truly unique to them alone. If you've heard such hits as "Closer to Fine" on the radio and really liked the sound, you can get more of that same awesome harmony on this CD.

Way back when, I was struggling to survive my first winter in Boston wondering what the hell I was doing in grad school.

While dialing for a reasonable radio station, the first line to "Closer to Fine" sounded like a clarion call. Shivers went up my spine, I caught my breath, and my knees went shakey. The clarity and intensity of the emotion was extraordinary. Who were these people??

I was mesmerized, as was the DJ that played tracks from the album again and again (and again) for the next week. Took almost as long for me to track down a local record store that had this album.

A truely inspirational album that I still play when I need a reminder that heart-felt emotion and commitment can change the world. Everything music should be...