Buffalo-raised singer\songwriter\poet Ani DiFranco has announced her upcoming 20th album ‘Allergic To Water’, a follow-up to Ani’s 2012’s LP ‘Which Side Are You On?’, set for release on October 14, 2014 via her own label Righteous Babe Records.

Recorded at her Victorian home in New Orleans and at a larger studio in an old church, in two 4-day sessions, one while she was six and a half months pregnant, with Ani’s ‘Got a new wreckord and I don’t hate it’ comment on the record, Allergic To Water is turning into one of greatly awaited releases at the end of the year.

That’s what Ani DiFranco says about the forthcoming record:

“Mostly I worked alone in headphones, in the wee hours, while my family slept. It was empowering but terrifying to have the buck stop with me again in terms of the mixes. The recordings are documents of my current touring band (recorded by Mike in our old victorian house in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans and also by Andy Taub at a nearby church in the Treme) just laying down the songs.

“Many also feature a couple of very choice special guests. My killer band these days consists of bassist and composer Todd Sickafoose, who not only brings an always wonderful and unexpected counterpoint to my guitar with his bass playing, but is also my secret weapon in terms of production- overdubbing atmospherics and embellishments that add depth and color to the stories I tell.

“My drummer is Terence Higgins, a New Orleans native, who brings that deeply funky pocket that makes me smile so wide, yet all-the-while listening through to the whole picture and really making music with his instrument, not just rhythms. Though most of Terence’s musical incarnations have him playing drum kit, this record really features his hand-percussion prowess- like the congas on “see see see see”, the Mardi Gras Indian style tambourine on “genie” – he nailed it every time.”

Check out the first song ‘Woe Be Gone’ here: