Ani DiFranco on her latest album, ‘Unprecedented S***’ : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco

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A true multi-hyphenate in every sense of the word, Ani DiFranco has been busy.

She just finished up her run on Broadway playing Persephone in Hadestown, a role she first inhabited on the original album version of Anaïs Mitchell‘s musical. She’s also putting out her second children’s book this year, was the recent subject of a new documentary about her life, called 1-800-on-Her-Own, and she has new music.

Her 23rd studio album, Unprecedented S***, inhabits a very different sonic landscape from other records in her catalogue. DiFranco usually helms her records, but she welcomed in BJ Burton to co-produce. In this session, she explains why, plus we get into how performing on Broadway is a completely different world than playing a concert.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.