Indigo Girls

Biography

Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in Emory Village.
They released a full-length record album entitled Strange Fire×Strange Fire1987 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1Make It Easier3:57A2Walk Away5:26A3Crazy Game2:53A4I Don’t Want to Know3:14A5Left It Up to Me4:56A6Hey Jesus4:06B1Strange Fire5:27B2High Horse4:58B3Left Me for a Fool4:51B4Land of Canaan3:08B5Blood and Fire4:22 in 1987, and contracted with a major record company in 1988. After releasing nine albums with major record labels from 1987 through 2007, they formed the IG Recordings company in 2009 and resumed self-producing albums.
Outside of working on Indigo Girls–related projects, Ray has released solo albums and founded a non-profit recording label that promotes independent musicians. Saliers is an entrepreneur in the restaurant industry as well as a professional author; she also collaborates with her father, Don Saliers, in performing for special groups and causes. Saliers and Ray are both lesbians and are active in political and environmental causes. They are commonly regarded as queer icons.

Early years

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first met and got to know each other as students at Laurel Ridge Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia, just outside Decatur, Georgia, but were not close friends because Saliers was a grade older than Ray. While attending Shamrock High School (now Druid Hills Middle School), they became better acquainted, and started performing together, first as "The B-Band" and then as "Saliers and Ray".
Saliers graduated and began attending Tulane University in Louisiana. A year later, Ray graduated from high school and began attending Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. Homesick, both returned to Georgia and transferred to Emory University in Atlanta (where Saliers' father was a professor).

By 1985, they had begun performing together again, this time as Indigo Girls. Saliers stated in a March 2007 National Public Radio Talk of the Nation interview, "we needed a name and we went through the dictionary looking for words that struck us and indigo was one."
Their first release in 1985 was a seven-inch single named "Crazy Game", with the B-side "Everybody's Waiting (for Someone to Come Home)". That same year, the Indigo Girls released a six-track extended play album named Indigo Girls, and in 1987 released their first full-length album, Strange Fire×Strange Fire1987 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1Make It Easier3:57A2Walk Away5:26A3Crazy Game2:53A4I Don’t Want to Know3:14A5Left It Up to Me4:56A6Hey Jesus4:06B1Strange Fire5:27B2High Horse4:58B3Left Me for a Fool4:51B4Land of Canaan3:08B5Blood and Fire4:22, recorded at John Keane Studio in Athens, Georgia, and including "Crazy Game". With this release, they secured the services of Russell Carter, who remains their manager to the present; they had first approached him when the EP album was released, but he told them their songs were "immature" and they were not likely to get a record deal. Strange Fire apparently changed his opinion.

Epic Records (1988–2006)

The success of 10,000 Maniacs, Tracy Chapman, and Suzanne Vega encouraged Epic Records to enlist other folk-based female singer-songwriters; Epic signed the duo in 1988. Their first major-label release, also named Indigo Girls, which scored No. 22 on the album chart, included a new version of "Land of Canaan", which was also on their 1985 EP album and on Strange Fire×Strange Fire1987 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1Make It Easier3:57A2Walk Away5:26A3Crazy Game2:53A4I Don’t Want to Know3:14A5Left It Up to Me4:56A6Hey Jesus4:06B1Strange Fire5:27B2High Horse4:58B3Left Me for a Fool4:51B4Land of Canaan3:08B5Blood and Fire4:22. Also on the self-titled release was their first hit "Closer to Fine×Closer To FineSingle · Mixtape/StreetSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Closer To Fine" (a collaboration with Irish band Hothouse Flowers), which scored No. 52 on the popular music chart and No. 26 on the modern rock chart. They even managed one week on the mainstream rock album-oriented rock music chart at No. 48. In 1990, they won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
Their second album, Nomads Indians Saints, went gold in December 1991 and included the hit song "Hammer and a Nail", a No. 12 modern rock music track; it was not as successful as their first, which was certified platinum at about the same time. The Indigo Girls followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all and 1992's album Rites of Passage×Rites of Passage12 May 1992 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Three Hits3:112Galileo4:143Ghost5:154Joking3:345Jonas & Ezekial4:096Love Will Come to You4:387Romeo and Juliet4:488Virginia Woolf5:279Chickenman5:4510Airplane3:2311Nashville3:5912Let It Be Me3:5513Cedar Tree3:47, featuring the song "Galileo", the duo's first top 10 modern rock music track (#10). During the accompanying tour in December, they invited on a few dates Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees as special guest to sing a couple of songs with them. They then recorded Swamp Ophelia in 1994, which went platinum in September 1996, and charted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
In 1995, the Indigo Girls released a live, double CD, 1200 Curfews. Shaming of the Sun was released in 1997 followed by Come on Now Social in 1999. Shaming of the Sun debuted at number seven on the Billboard charts, driven by the duo's contribution to the Lilith Fair music festival tour. The track "Shame on You" received more airplay on adult alternative, top 40 and adult top 40 radio stations than any of their previous singles, although this seemed to be a peak in their crossover success.
Retrospective, a compilation album with two new tracks, was released in 2000 and Become You×Become You12 March 2002 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Moment of Forgiveness3:132Deconstruction4:153Become You3:474You’ve Got to Show4:445Yield2:486Collecting You4:327Hope Alone3:578Bitterroot2:469Our Deliverance4:1210Starkville4:2211She’s Saving Me5:0412Nuevas Senoritas4:35Disc 21Our Deliverance (alternate version)4:122Everything in Its Own Time (live)5:113Johnny Rottentail2:00 followed two years later. Their last Epic studio album was All That We Let In×All That We Let In19 January 2004 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Fill It Up Again3:482Heartache for Everyone3:173Free in You3:474Perfect World3:365All That We Let In4:386Tether6:177Come on Home4:398Dairy Queen3:479Something Real4:0910Cordova3:4711Rise Up4:08, released in 2004 with an accompanying tour. On June 14, 2005, they released Rarities, a collection of B-sides and rare tracks partially decided by fans' input, which fulfilled the album count obligation for their contract with Epic.

Hollywood Records (2006–07)

After departing Epic, the Indigo Girls signed a five-record deal with Hollywood Records. Their first (and only) Hollywood album, Despite Our Differences×Despite Our Differences19 September 2006 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 14 tracks1Pendulum Swinger3:402Little Perennials2:503I Believe in Love3:404Three County Highway3:445Run4:026Rock and Roll Heaven’s Gate3:157Lay My Head Down4:208Money Made You Mean2:249Fly Away3:2010Dirt and Dead Ends5:2711All the Way3:4412They Won’t Have Me3:0813Last Tears4:1414indigo_girls.exe, produced by Mitchell Froom, was released on September 19, 2006. John Metzger from MusicBox Online described Despite our Differences as "the most infectious, pop-infused set that the duo ever has managed to concoct. In fact, its melodies, harmonies, and arrangements are so ingratiating that the album carries the weight of an instant classic." Thom Jurek from AllMusic wrote: "part of an emotional journey as complete as can be. More relevant than anyone dared expect. It's accessible and moving and true. It's their own brand of rock & roll, hewn from over the years, that bears a signature that is now indelible. A moving, and utterly poetic offering."
After releasing Despite Our Differences, the Indigo Girls' contract was terminated by Hollywood Records during their 2007 tour.

Independent work (2007–present)

Following their break with Hollywood Records, the Indigo Girls announced their next record would be released independently. Poseidon and the Bitter Bug was released on March 24, 2009, from IG Recordings, the Indigo Girls' label, and distributed through Vanguard Records. This album is their first fully independent release since 1987's Strange Fire×Strange Fire1987 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1Make It Easier3:57A2Walk Away5:26A3Crazy Game2:53A4I Don’t Want to Know3:14A5Left It Up to Me4:56A6Hey Jesus4:06B1Strange Fire5:27B2High Horse4:58B3Left Me for a Fool4:51B4Land of Canaan3:08B5Blood and Fire4:22, and their first two-CD set since 1995's live album 1200 Curfews×1200 Curfews10 October 1995 · Album · LiveSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 28 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Joking4:282Least Complicated5:153Thin Line4:224River3:545Strange Fire5:146Power of Two5:177Pushing the Needle Too Far4:218Virginia Woolf6:059Jonas and Ezekial3:5410Tangled Up in Blue8:0611World Falls3:5312Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee5:0913Ghost6:0414Dead Man’s Hill5:34Disc 21I Don’t Wanna Know3:492Galileo5:313Down by the River9:464Love’s Recovery5:055Land of Canaan4:286Mystery4:517This Train Revisited6:428Back Together Again2:069Language or the Kiss5:4610Chickenman7:3011Midnight Train to Georgia5:2112Closer to Fine4:5013Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (studio version)5:0114Go Go Go2:56; the first disc has the 10 tracks accompanied by a backing band, and the second includes the same 10 songs with only Ray and Saliers on vocals and acoustic guitars, and an additional track. On June 29, 2010 Indigo Girls' second full-length live album, Staring Down the Brilliant Dream×Staring Down the Brilliant Dream29 June 2010 · Album · LiveSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 31 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Heartache for Everyone3:222Closer to Fine4:223Go4:144Come on Home4:435Devotion3:266Cold Beer and Remote Control3:557Moment of Forgiveness3:178Fill It Up Again3:509Sugar Tongue3:4810Fly Away3:2311Ozilline4:1812Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right3:2413Kid Fears4:2614Watershed4:5315Shame on You4:35Disc 21Get Out the Map3:342Salty South4:443The Wood Song3:584Three County Highway3:435Digging for Your Dream4:266Rock and Roll Heaven’s Gate3:167I Believe in Love3:418Fugitive4:549Cordova4:2810What Are You Like2:5011Second Time Around4:4112Love of Our Lives3:4513Become You4:0314Prince of Darkness5:2015Tether6:3116Wild Horses6:20, was released on IG Recordings/Vanguard Records. This was followed on October 12, 2010 with their first holiday album Holly Happy Days×Holly Happy Days12 October 2010 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1I Feel the Christmas Spirit2:572It Really Is (a Wonderful Life)3:193O Holy Night4:174Your Holiday Song3:075I’ll Be Home for Christmas2:166Mistletoe3:357Peace Child3:058The Wonder Song2:519In the Bleak Midwinter3:1010Happy Joyous Hanukkah3:4011Angels We Have Heard on High3:3712There’s Still My Joy2:45. Indigo Girls' thirteenth studio album, Beauty Queen Sister×Beauty Queen Sister1 January 2011 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Share the Moon3:342John4:223Beauty Queen Sister3:114We Get to Feel It All3:325War Rugs3:246Gone3:027Mariner Moonlighting3:368Birthday Song4:199Feed and Water the Horses4:3010Making Promises3:1911Damo4:0712Able to Sing4:0213Yoke5:0914Everything in Its Own Time (live)5:1115Beauty Queen Sister (Acoustic)3:11, was released on October 4, 2011, and their fourteenth studio album, One Lost Day×One Lost Day2 June 2015 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Elizabeth3:372Happy in the Sorrow Key2:583Southern California Is Your Girlfriend4:204Texas Was Clean4:115Alberta3:126Olympia Inn3:057If I Don’t Leave Here Now4:158Spread the Pain Around4:079Learned It on Me4:1210The Rise of The Black Messiah4:2111Findlay, Ohio 19686:1512Fishtails3:3113Come a Long Way3:57, was released on June 2, 2015 (both on IG Recordings/Vanguard Records).
Beginning in 2017, the Indigo Girls have toured the United States performing their music arranged for symphony orchestra. After more than 50 performances, in 2018 they released a live double album entitled Indigo Girls Live with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra×Indigo Girls Live with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra29 June 2018 · Album · LiveSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 22 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Woodsong4:352Sugar Tongue3:463Able to Sing4:244Compromise3:105Virginia Woolf5:356Happy in the Sorrow Key2:577Power of Two5:448Yoke5:029Love of Our Lives3:5510World Falls3:5111Galileo4:5612Chickenman7:45Disc 21Fugitive5:192Come a Long Way4:023War Rugs3:504Mystery4:305Damo4:496Come on Home5:047Kid Fears4:388Ghost6:099Go4:1010Closer to Fine5:56. In 2020, they followed this with the studio album Look Long×Look Long24 April 2020 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracks1Shit Kickin’3:532Look Long4:393Howl at the Moon3:424When We Were Writers3:545Change My Heart3:466KC Girl3:437Country Radio3:578Muster3:409Feel This Way Again2:5210Favorite Flavor2:5611Sorrow and Joy4:41.
In 2025, Indigo Girls appeared in the feature documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery – The Untold Story, which reflects on the legacy of the all-female music festival.

Songwriting and influences

Ray and Saliers do not ordinarily collaborate in writing songs. Saliers described herself as "a lyric person. [...] I’ve always respected Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan". Saliers said: "Amy is much more a combination of music and lyrics. She really likes alternative rock a lot, and she likes the feel of certain kinds of music as well as the lyrics. Amy is more stream-of-consciousness. She doesn’t censor herself at all; she just channels it through herself, so in her lyrics, she has tons of different kinds of images, sensual images, things of the earth, that connection to nature. Mine is a much more singer-songwriter intellectual narrative style. I take an idea and try to really pinpoint it, make it as clear as possible".
They write separately and work out the arrangements together. There are a few exceptions, mostly unreleased songs from their early, pre-Epic days: "I Don't Know Your Name" and "If You Live Like That." "Blood Quantum", which appears on Honor: A Benefit for the Honor the Earth Campaign featured Ray's verses and chorus and Saliers's bridge. Finally, "I'll Give You My Skin", which appears both on Tame Yourself (a benefit album for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and on the Indigo Girls release Rarities, is a collaborative work by Ray, Saliers, and Michael Stipe, which is doubly rare because Saliers and Ray usually write their songs without outside collaborators. For their 2002 release, 'Become You×Become You12 March 2002 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Moment of Forgiveness3:132Deconstruction4:153Become You3:474You’ve Got to Show4:445Yield2:486Collecting You4:327Hope Alone3:578Bitterroot2:469Our Deliverance4:1210Starkville4:2211She’s Saving Me5:0412Nuevas Senoritas4:35Disc 21Our Deliverance (alternate version)4:122Everything in Its Own Time (live)5:113Johnny Rottentail2:00,' Ray reported that they handed instruments back and forth to compose leads collaboratively, something they had never done before. In September 2020, the Indigo Girls released "Long Ride", the first song Ray and Saliers had written together in 30 years.

Touring band

The Indigo Girls have toured as a duo and with a band. In 1990, they toured with Atlanta band the Ellen James Society backing them; they have also toured with side players, with one distinct group from 1991 to 1998, a second from 1999 to 2009, members of which appeared on all of the Girls' subsequent albums and which re-formed as a live band in 2023, and a third from 2012 to 2016. Names in bold are of mainstays of the touring band.

First touring band
Sara Lee – bass guitar (1991–98)
Jerry Marotta – drums, percussion (1992–98)
Budgie – drums (1992)
Gail Ann Dorsey – bass guitar, support vocals (1994)
Scarlet Rivera – violin (1992-3)
Jane Scarpantoni – cello (1992-3, 1995)
Joshua Segal – guitar, violin, mandolin, vocals (1997)
Second touring band
Brady Blade – drums (2002–04, 2023)
Matt Chamberlain – drums (2006–2009, 2024)
Lyris Hung – violin (2012–)
Carol Isaacs – keyboards, accordion (1999–2007, 2015–16, 2023-)
Clare Kenny – bass guitar (1999–2007, 2023-)
Matt Brubeck - cello, percussion, vocals (2000)
Blair Cunningham – drums (2000, 2024)
Caroline Dale – cello (1999)
Jeff Fielder – guitar (2023-)
TK Johnson – drums (2025)
Caroline Lavelle – cello (2000)
John Reynolds – drums (1999)
Julie Wolf – keyboards, accordion (2007–11)
2012–16 touring band
Jaron Pearlman – drums (2012–2016)
Benjamin Ryan Williams – bass (2012–2016)
Lyris Hung – violin (2012–present)
Carol Isaacs – keyboards, accordion (1999–2007, 2015-6, 2023-4)

Solo projects

In 1990, Ray founded Daemon Records, which has signed Magnapop, Ellen James Society, New Mongrels, Kristen Hall, Rose Polenzani, Girlyman, Athens Boys Choir, and James Hall among others.
Saliers was a founding co-owner of Watershed Restaurant in Decatur, Georgia. She sold Watershed in 2018. Saliers was an initial investor in the Flying Biscuit Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2005, Saliers and her father, Don Saliers, a theology professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, released the book A Song to Sing, a Life to Live: Reflections on Music as Spiritual Practice. They promoted the release of the book together including several days of speaking and performing together at the Washington National Cathedral College in Washington D.C.
Ray has put out six solo albums, entitled Stag, Prom, Live from Knoxville, Didn't It Feel Kinder, Amy Ray: Live MVP, Lung of Love, Goodnight Tender and Holler through Daemon. She has toured with both The Butchies and her bands The Volunteers and the Amy Ray Band. Saliers also released a solo album, Murmuration Nation, in 2017.

Appearances in other media

Ray and Saliers appeared in the 1995 film Boys on the Side, playing short excerpts from their songs "Joking" and "Southland in the Springtime", as well as singing "Feliz Cumpleaños" ("Happy Birthday" in Spanish) with the gathered group of friends during the birthday cake scene, and standing on the far side of several shots over the next few scenes. Neither had spoken lines. The duo also appear in the 2006 documentary Wordplay, where they discuss their reaction to appearing in a New York Times crossword puzzle and then begin to solve one together.
They performed onstage in the 1994 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar in Atlanta, titled Jesus Christ Superstar: A Resurrection. Ray starred as Jesus with Saliers as Mary Magdalene. They later reprised their roles in stagings in Austin, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, and in Seattle.
Ray and Saliers made several cameo appearances on the sitcom Ellen; in the episode "Womyn Fest", Ellen and her friends attend a feminist music festival and catch the end of a performance by the Indigo Girls.
The girls are mentioned multiple times in Stephen King's 1995 novel Rose Madder, and Curtis Sittenfeld's 2023 novel Romantic Comedy, as well as being name-dropped in various TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Will and Grace, South Park, 30 Rock, The Office, Squidbillies, The Big Bang Theory, Saturday Night Live, Harley Quinn and Nip\Tuck.
Their posters are seen on the British soap Brookside and the 1996 slasher film Scream.
The duo appeared onstage alongside standup comedian Tig Notaro during Notaro's 2018 show "Happy to be Here" at The Heights in Houston, Texas, as a closing bit, performing one song.
In the 2023 film Barbie, Barbie sings along to "Closer to Fine×Closer To FineSingle · Mixtape/StreetSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Closer To Fine." The song appears three times in the film, as well as in its trailer.
A collection of Indigo Girls' songs is used in the jukebox musical movie Glitter and Doom, which has been touring movie festivals across North America. The film has no confirmed release date.
Indigo Girls are featured in "Foreword: A Conversation with the Indigo Girls, Kathy Mattea, and Lyle Lovett" in Brian T. Atkinson's Love at the Five and Dime: The Songwriting Legacy of Nanci Griffith (Texas A&M University Press, 2024).

Personal lives

Both Ray and Saliers use she/her pronouns. They long identified themselves as lesbians, but more recently Ray and Saliers have publicly commented they are or previously have been sexually attracted to men in their lives, and that they identify as queer. More specifically, Ray has openly talked about her gender dysphoria and identifying as gender-fluid, and the challenges she has felt in her own body. “I definitely still feel like a guy a lot of the time, but I guess I’ve just gotten to a place where, like, ‘Well, I have fought really hard to be in this body and I’m just gonna stay here,’ and also felt somewhat evenly split between male and female to the point where I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can choose, like I think I’m gonna have to just live in the center,’” Ray said. Both Saliers and Ray have spoken openly about having internalized homophobia. Because of their engagements for LGBT rights, they are regarded as icons of the movement.
Amy Ray has long lived in the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains with her longtime partner, filmmaker Carrie Schrader from Seattle, whom she has been with since 2001. In November 2013, Schrader gave birth to the couple’s child, Ozilline “Ozie” Graydon. Ozie is named after Ray’s grandmother, who was also the inspiration for the 1999 Indigo Girls song “Ozilline,” penned by Ray.
Saliers married her longtime girlfriend, former Indigo Girls tour manager Tristin Chipman, at New York City Hall in 2013. Chipman, a Canadian, is from Calgary, "but she spent most of her adult life in Toronto," according to Saliers between songs when performing onstage in Vancouver in 2013.

Political activism

The Indigo Girls have been politically active, championing the causes of and held benefit concerts for the environment, gay rights, the rights of Native Americans, and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. For many years they incorporated a recycling and public outreach program into their road tours by including Greenpeace representative Stephanie Fairbanks in their road crew. They have also appeared at the annual SOA Watch rallies, the March for Women's Lives, and several other rallies and protests.
Ray and Saliers helped Winona LaDuke establish Honor the Earth, an organization dedicated to creating support and education for native environmental issues. After performing on the activist-oriented Spitfire Tour in 1999, Ray and Saliers joined forces with The Spitfire Agency to develop the Honor The Earth Tour, which visits colleges and Native communities, and raises money for their non-profit of the same name. On March 1, 2024, Indigo Girls concluded their involvement with Honor the Earth.
In 2006 Indigo Girls were featured in artist Pink's album I'm Not Dead in the song "Dear Mr. President", which Pink says is a political confrontation with George W. Bush about war, poverty, LGBT rights, abortion rights, and the No Child Left Behind Act. Returning the favor, Pink performed on the Indigo Girls' "Rock and Roll Heaven's Gate," which is about, among other things, sexism and heterosexism in the music industry.
In June 2007 the Indigo Girls were part of the multi-artist True Colors Tour 2007, on the tour's Las Vegas stop which benefited the Human Rights Campaign and other organizations that provide support to the LGBT community. The Indigo Girls performed again on the True Colors Tour 2008.
In April 2013, in response to criticism from transgender activists, the Indigo Girls issued a statement that they would play at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, but would protest the festival's "womyn-born womyn" policy from the stage, would donate any money received to trans activism, and would not return to the festival without "visible and concrete signs" that the policy would be changed.
In November 2017, the Indigo Girls were nominated to Out magazine's "OUT100" for 2017 in recognition of their work and their visibility.
The Indigo Girls are also members of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism and have worked with them on awareness campaigns.

Live albums

Perfect World was released as a promo CD maxi single on March 1, 2004 together with 3 live tracks.

Other contributions

Deadicated (1991), covering "Uncle John's Band"
Put On Your Green Shoes (1993) – "Wild Wild Party In The Loquat Tree"
Joan Baez – Ring Them Bells (1995) – "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"
Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation (1996) – "Free of Hope"
Burning London: The Clash Tribute (1999) – "Clampdown"
107.1 KGSR Radio Austin – Broadcasts Vol. 10 (2002) – "Moment of Forgiveness"
WYEP Live and Direct: Volume 4 – On Air Performances (2002) – "Become You×Become You12 March 2002 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks · 2 discsDisc 11Moment of Forgiveness3:132Deconstruction4:153Become You3:474You’ve Got to Show4:445Yield2:486Collecting You4:327Hope Alone3:578Bitterroot2:469Our Deliverance4:1210Starkville4:2211She’s Saving Me5:0412Nuevas Senoritas4:35Disc 21Our Deliverance (alternate version)4:122Everything in Its Own Time (live)5:113Johnny Rottentail2:00"
Pink – I'm Not Dead (2006) – "Dear Mr President"
Anne Murray – Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends (2007) – "A Little Good News"
Brandi Carlile – The Story (2007) – "Cannonball"
Metro: The Official Bootleg Series, Volume 1 (2010)
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: A Tribute to Pete Seeger, covering "Letter to Eve"
Looking Into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne (2014) covering "Fountain Of Sorrow"
Joan Baez "75th Birthday Celebration" (2016) "The Water is Wide", "Don't Think Twice"

Live recording circulation

Indigo Girls allow fans to tape their shows, and appropriately gathered recordings can be traded, obtained for free from a number of sources.