Published without permission . Contributing Writer Life on the road never gets old for Emily Saliers. Usually we play a show and then we get on the bus. Then we usually arrive in the next city in the middle of the night and we get out and go to the hotel.
Bus life is like a little cocoon - it's like having a little family.
Now Social that has been lauded by critics as edgier and more rock-oriented than their seven previous albums. Saliers and Ray released their first album in 1987 while still students at Emory University. Just out of college, they signed with Epic Records. While the Indigos always had a major lesbian following, Emily was a little slower than Amy in publicly coming out. I just didn't want us to be thought of as a 'gay band' and didn't want to be held back.