Ani DiFranco

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco has been making music since she was a teenager. For decades now, she's recorded and released her music on her own label, Righteous Babe Records. Her music is both autobiographical and political, with influences from funk, rock, jazz and punk. She's released over 20 albums so far and her latest, "Revolutionary Love," will be available in January. Ani joins Jesse to talk about breaking away from self-sufficiency, writing beautiful music and taking time off from the road, Plus, she'll tell us what it feels like to jam with the one and only Prince! All that and more on the next Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Hey gang, it's Jesse. We're getting close to the end of the year, a time to think about what
0:03.6	we're thankful for, a time to share joy and give back. Let's be honest, 2020 has been a challenging
0:09.6	year for all of us. Public radio stations are no exception. During this time, please consider
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0:38.3	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:59.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn. Anita Franco moved out of her mom's house at 15 years old.
1:05.3	She'd been writing songs for a year. As an up-and-coming singer-songwriter,
1:10.2	she played house shows, cafes, slept on couches and floors. She also started her own record label,
1:16.1	Righteous Babe. She released her own music through it, as well as work from Andrew Bird,
1:21.2	Artilindzi, and Sarah Lee. Around Anita Franco, there's a huge, passionate fan base. She sold
1:28.0	millions of records, hit a bunch of top 100 charts, won awards, and acclaim from critics. But maybe
1:33.3	more than any other singer, Anita Franco is defined by her independence. When we talked in 2017,
1:40.2	though, she'd just released an album that departed from that a bit. She collaborated with a big
1:45.4	diverse roster of artists, Justin Vernon from Bonivere, Maceo Parker, Gail and Dorsey Binary,
1:54.0	which is what she called it, is an album about relationships, about coexistence,
1:58.1	about the connections out there between all of us. Here's a single from that album. It's called
2:02.8	Play God.
2:33.8	Anita Franco, welcome to Bullseye. It's a great tabular show.
2:51.0	Hey, thanks. So, how much do you tour these days as a person who once essentially lived on the road?
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