The Stats

Name: Amy Elizabeth Ray Born:April 12, 1964, Atlanta, GA Height: 5'9", give or take 4 inches Weight: Between 5 and 500 pounds	Name: Emily Ann Saliers Born: July 22, 1963, a Yankee, but God was teasin Height: 5'8", give or take 4 inches Weight: Mind your own business
Position: Catcher Bats: Right Throws: Right The book on Ray: Good lowball hitter. Dead pull hitter, can handle breaking balls. Crowd pleaser with her natural power stroke. Weaknesses: At times impatient with a quick temper. Doesn't believe training is necessary.	Position: Utility Bats: Both Throws: Right The book on Saliers: Likes high pitches. Adjusts well to changeups, uses all fields. Fundamentally sound. Weaknesses: Lacks mass appeal of pure power hitters. Seems heavier by the year.

The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, have known each other since grade school when they sang together in the choir. Amy, a year younger than Emily, was somewhat jealous of the elder Indigo Girl as Emily was writing songs while Amy was still practicing the basic chords. The two teamed up for a high school talent show, but wound up performing separately. Though Emily went off to Tulane and Amy Vanderbilt, they found each other again when they both returned home to attend Emory University in Atlanta. They began to play local clubs under the name "Saliers & Ray" until one day, when Amy decided they needed a better name, whipped out her handy dictionary, and the word "indigo" leaped off the page and into her head. In 1986 they independently released the original Indigo Girls EP, and a year later the original version of Strange Fire. In 1988, they signed with Epic Records, and in '89 leapt onto the national scene with their Epic debut, Indigo Girls, which went gold and won a grammy for best contemporary folk album. Due to the success of the self-titled album, Epic repackaged and rereleased their Strange Fire album in late '89. In 1990 they released their third album, Nomads*Indians*Saints, followed by the live album Back on the Bus, Y'all in '91. With the live album came a live video, Live at the Uptown Lounge, featuring the Girls performing some of their hits from their first three albums. The release of the live album signified the end of the pure folk career of the Indigo Girls, and their next album, appropriately titled Rites Of Passage, saw the Girls making serious strides towards the pop/rock world, experimenting with new sounds and instruments. 1994's release of Swamp Ophelia expanded on their pop sound. In late '94, the Girls got involved in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, organized by their good friend Michael Lorant and benefiting gun control organizations in the south. Amy, naturally, played Jesus, and Emily, not so naturally, played Mary Magdalene. In '95, the Girls released 1200 Curfews, a live double album, which once again signaled the end of an era, this time of the bubbly guitar pop sounds which floated through their last two releases. With the live album also came another video, Watershed, a compilation album which summed up the Girls' career to this point, featuring all the music videos the Girls' had made in their career. The Girls then took a year off, away from each other, and came back in the spring of 1997 with a new producer and Shaming Of The Sun, the Girls' most electric album to date. The Girls joined the inaugural Lilith Fair in the summer, and quickly became the heart, soul, and mind of the festival tour. In 1998, the Girls spearheaded a new all female tour, based more on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue of the '70s than the individual minded Lilith, teaming up with the likes of Kate Schellenbach, formerly of Luscious Jackson, Josephine Wiggs, Lisa Germano, Jane Siberry, Gail Ann Dorsey, Lourdes Pérez, Thalia Zedek, and Jean Smith called the Suffragette Sessions Tour. Much of early '99 was spent recording their next album, but they did find time to make a trip to Cuba to participate in the Music Bridges around the World program. Come On Now Social, the duo's seventh studio release from Epic, debuted in September 1999.