The double album Revelling/Reckoning has been the subject of widespread critical acclaim. Rolling Stone, Spin, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post are a few of the publications that have sung the album's praises. Half the songs on each disc find Ani flying solo (playing a small orchestra's worth of instruments), while the other half feature the members of her road-tested live band along with guests Maceo Parker and Jon Hassell on horns and Lloyd Maines on pedal steel. The whole thing is wrapped up in one elegant, specially designed package, complete with a pair of lyric-and-photo booklets. On the journey from Revelling to Reckoning, Ani takes her music in countless new directions -- but she never strays from the path she's been on all along.

»the Righteous Babe [has] kicked in with a nigh-on perfect album. . . an atmospheric, aural mosaic, where moods shift almost imperceptibly. At the heart of it all are DiFranco's songs and guitar work; with no question, these will endure and mature with age.«
-DOWN BEAT Magazine