Ani DiFranco has a memoir coming out and here is an interview she gave Rolling Stone.

The section that details her experience playing and recording with Prince is much more positive. It was when he was desperate to get out of his deal with Warner Brothers and the two had traded quotes in the press about how he should come record with Righteous Babe. Then his white limo showed up backstage after she played a set. When he invited her and Maceo Parker to swing by Paisley Park and record on his new album, DiFranco was rightfully terrified. Prince wanted her to lay down a guitar track on his piano ballad “Eye Love U, But Eye Don�... U Anymore” on the spot. “He knew I was in mortal panic and he was messing with me,” she writes. “I managed to play a very basic lunk-headed fingerpicked accompaniment to his song. … The whole thing was over in five minutes.”

Here, the powerful symbol that Prince represents remains the most potent memory. “It’s so much easier to write about people who’ve passed on. I mean, I didn’t have to worry about getting it wrong for him, a person I love,” DiFranco says. “So, I just talked about him as I see him, which I’m sure is not how he sees himself. And I know what it’s like to be public property and to be defined by others so much of the time; it’s excruciating. But whether he wants it or not, he was a valued gender hero. A queer fuckin’ hero, like Bowie himself. It’s just hard to imagine, to remember the culture before that. And the amount of women he worked with — you still don’t see that now. I feel, because I got in the door a couple of times, I could see that dynamic … and appreciate how that worked for him.”

https://www.rollingstone....ur-831543/

Cool. Ani is a genuine. Thanks for posting.

jdcxc said:

ANi is a remarkable artist with a great discography. Her memoir should be most interesting --

Thanks for sharing this. Ani is great. She is also gracious because I am sure there were things about Prince later in his life that did not fit with the "gender hero" persona of his early years. Ani, like most of us, would rather forget some of the later, negative aspects of his words and beliefs. Anyway, I look forward to reading the interview very soon.

I don't know too much about Ani but I heard and interview she gave on NPR that was rather enlightening. The stuff where she was talking about growing up in a two story home that was basically just 2 big rooms (no walls) was interesting.


https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/720657501/ani-difranco-relives-her-indie-rock-rise-i-wanted-a-different-kind-of-power

Also just lol at Prince always being OH SO HOPEFUL to really attractive women artists, even several with little to no talent at all. Not ragging on him. I'd do the same thing.