{"id":2443872,"date":"2019-05-07T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832091"},"modified":"2019-05-07T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:39:05","slug":"the-first-time-ani-difranco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-first-time-ani-difranco\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Ani DiFranco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ani-difranco-first-time.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In her memoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ani-difranco-memoir-no-wall-recurring-dream-753682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>No Walls and the Recurring Dream,<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ani-difranco\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ani-difranco\" data-tag=\"ani-difranco\">Ani DiFranco<\/a> details a lot of her first experiences: learning to play guitar, writing songs and putting our first albums. She also reveals her struggles with coming to terms with selling her songs to her fans (and how hard it was to even set up a merch table). She recently launched her summer tour at the New Orleans Jazz &amp; Heritage Festival to help support the book, which wraps August 16th at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. run includes an 11-date book tour that kicks off May 7th in New York City and winds down May 22nd in New Orleans. Additional ticket information, as well as the \u201cNo Walls\u201d mixtape she\u2019s releasing, are available at the singer-songwriter\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/anidifranco.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For our \u201cThe First Time\u201d video series, DiFranco shared some other personal stories and anecdotes, including her first album (Prince\u2019s <em>Purple Rain<\/em>), meeting Bob Dylan, shaving her hair off and the first time she kissed another woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was probably 19 or 20?\u201d she begins. \u201c\u2026 And we had a private moment \u2014 which lasted all night \u2014 and which I then had to explain to my boyfriend\u2026. because when you\u2019re young, promiscuity just makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ani-difranco-first-time-video-832091\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco details a lot of her first experiences: learning to play guitar, writing songs and putting our first albums. She also reveals her struggles with coming to terms with selling her songs to her fans (and how hard it was to even set up a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 16:14:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}