Editing Indigo Girls (section)

=== Early years ===
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers first met and got to know each other as students at [[DeKalb County School District|Laurel Ridge Elementary School]] in [[DeKalb County, Georgia]], just outside [[Decatur, Georgia]],<ref name=AtlMag80>{{cite journal| journal= Atlanta Magazine| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qOECAAAAMBAJ&q=Laurel+Ridge+Elementary+indigo&pg=PA72| title= From Brenda Lee to Ludacris: A Sonic Portrait of Our City| first= Rebecca | last= Burns| page= 80| date= June 2003|volume= 43| number= 2|issn= 0004-6701| publisher= Emmis Communications| access-date= December 2, 2016}}</ref> 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".<ref name="Larkin"/>

Saliers graduated and began attending [[Tulane University]] in Louisiana. A year later, Ray graduated 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).<ref name= sketch>{{cite web| title=  Biographical Sketch: Don E. Saliers |url= http://alumni.iws.edu/Saliers_Biographical_Sketch.htm| website=IWS.edu | publisher= The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies| access-date= December 5, 2016}}</ref> 
[[File:Emory Village.JPG|alt=|thumb|After forming their duo in college, the Indigo Girls played small clubs in the Emory Village district of [[Druid Hills, Georgia]].]]
By 1985, they had begun performing together again, this time as Indigo Girls.<ref name="Larkin"/> 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 [[wikt:indigo|indigo]] was one."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://everything2.com/title/Indigo%2520Girls |title=Indigo Girls |website=Everything2.com |date=August 6, 2001 |access-date=August 17, 2011}}</ref>

Their first release in 1985 was a seven-inch single named "Crazy Game", with the [[A-side and B-side|B-side]] "Everybody's Waiting (for Someone to Come Home)".<ref name="Larkin"/>
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]]'', recorded at [[John Keane (record producer)|John Keane]] Studio in [[Athens, Georgia]], and including "Crazy Game".<ref name="Larkin"/> With this release, they secured the services of Russell Carter, who remains their manager to the present; they had first approached him when the [[Extended play|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2011/10/06/indigo-girls-latest/|title=Indigo Girls' latest album cliché, but still hanging on|date=October 6, 2011}}</ref>