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