Ani DiFranco joins host Stephen Kallao

Right now, it is good to be Ani DiFranco. She just finished a run on the Tony award winning musical “Hadestown”, is the subject of a new documentary, “1-800-On-Her-Own” and just released her 22nd album. DiFranco joins World Cafe to talk about working with a producer for the first time in her career, and why performing on Broadway is nothing like playing a concert.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist

MGMT “Kids” Oracular Spectacular

Ani DiFranco “The Thing at Hand” Unprecedented Sh!t

Ani DiFranco “Virus” Unprecedented Sh!t

Baio “Needs” WC Recording

Ani DiFranco “Baby Roe” Unprecedented Sh!t

Ani DiFranco “New Bible” Unprecedented Sh!t

Haim “Forever” Days Are Gone

Bob Marley & The Wailers “Jamming” Exodus

k. d. lang “Summerfling” Invincible Summer

Tedeschi Trucks Band “Layla” Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn’)

Hour Two
Erykah Badu “Window Seat” New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh

Cage The Elephant “Rainbow” Neon Pill

Mt. Joy “Highway Queen” (single)

The Pretenders “Night In My Veins” Last of the Independents

Clairo “Sexy to Someone” Charm

Madi Diaz “Christine” Skin and Bone

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band “Sausalito” WC Recording

They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse In Your Soul” WC Recording

Patti Smith “People Have The Power” Dream Of Life

Ray Lamontagne “Step Into Your Power” Long Way Home

Hozier “Nina Cried Power (ft. Mavis Staples)” Wasteland, Baby!

Coldplay “Life in Technicolor” Vida La Vida

Mavis Staples “Worthy” Worthy (single)

Leon Bridges “If It Feels Good, Then It Must Be” Good Thing

Waxahatchee “Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman)” Tigers Blood

Bob Dylan “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” Highway 61 Revisited