Editing Ani DiFranco (section)

===Musical collaborations, cover versions, and samples===

DiFranco has collaborated with a wide range of artists. In 1997, she appeared on Canadian songwriter [[Bruce Cockburn]]'s ''Charity of Night'' album. In 1998, she produced fellow folksinger [[Dan Bern]]'s album ''[[Fifty Eggs]]''.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

She developed a deep association with folksinger and social activist [[Utah Phillips]] throughout the mid-1990s, sharing her stage and her audience with the older musician until his death in 2008 and resulting in two collaborative albums: ''[[The Past Didn't Go Anywhere]]'' (1996) and ''[[Fellow Workers]]'' (1999, with liner notes by [[Howard Zinn]]).<ref>{{cite web|last=Zinn|first=Howard|title=Fellow Workers Liner Notes|date=February 22, 2013 |url=http://zinnedproject.org/materials/fellow-workers-liner-notes-by-howard-zinn/|publisher=Zinn Education Project|access-date=July 31, 2013}}</ref> ''The Past'' is built around Phillips's storytelling, an important part of his art that had not previously been documented on recordings; on the album, DiFranco provides musical settings for his speaking voice.<ref name=":0" /> The followup, ''Fellow Workers'', was recorded live in [[Daniel Lanois]]'s Kingsway Studio in New Orleans and features Phillips fronting DiFranco's touring band for a collection of songs and stories.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

[[Prince (musician)|Prince]] recorded two songs with DiFranco in 1999, "Providence" on her ''To the Teeth'' album, and "Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore" on Prince's ''[[Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic]]'' album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://princetext.tripod.com/i_startrib99.html |title=Prince in Print |website=Princetext.tripod.com |access-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref> Funk and soul jazz musician [[Maceo Parker]] and rapper Corey Parker have both appeared on DiFranco's albums<ref>{{cite web|title=To The Teeth, album|url=http://www.righteousbabe.com/products/to-the-teeth|website=Righteous Babe|access-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref> and featured appearances by her on theirs. Parker and DiFranco toured together in 1999.

She has appeared on several compilations of the songs of [[Pete Seeger]] and frequented his [[Clearwater Festival|Hudson Clearwater Revival Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Toshi Reagon and Ani DiFranco|url=http://vimeo.com/64338104|work=Vimeo, video gallery|publisher=Hudson River Sloop Clearwater|access-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref> In 2001, she appeared on Brazilian artist [[Lenine (musician)|Lenine]]'s album ''Falange Canibal''. In 2002, her rendition of [[Greg Brown (folk musician)|Greg Brown]]'s "The Poet Game" appeared on ''Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown''. Also in 2002 she recorded a duet with [[Jackie Chan]] of the [[Irving Gordon]] song "[[Unforgettable (Irving Gordon song)|Unforgettable]]" for a record of unlikely collaborations, ''When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ani DiFranco & Jackie Chan – "Unforgettable" (Nat King Cole Cover)|url=http://quitmumbling.com/2011/04/uncovered-ani-difranco-jackie-chan-unforgettable-nat-king-cole/|website=Quit Mumbling|access-date=August 2, 2013|archive-date=October 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019085200/http://quitmumbling.com/2011/04/uncovered-ani-difranco-jackie-chan-unforgettable-nat-king-cole/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2005, she appeared on [[Dar Williams]]' record ''My Better Self'', duetting on William's cover of [[Pink Floyd]]'s "Comfortably Numb". She performed with [[Cyndi Lauper]] on "Sisters of Avalon" a track from Lauper's 2005 ''[[The Body Acoustic]]'' album. In 2006, she produced [[Hamell on Trial]]'s album ''Songs for Parents Who Enjoy Drugs''. In 2008, she appeared on [[Todd Sickafoose]]'s album ''Tiny Resisters''. In 2010, she co-produced a track with [[Margaret Cho]] called "Captain Cameltoe" for the comedian's ''Cho Dependant'' album. In 2011, she appeared on [[Rob Wasserman]]'s album ''Note of Hope'', an exploration of the writings of [[Woody Guthrie]] with musical accompaniment, though the track in which she appeared, "Voice", was actually recorded 13 years earlier. Also in 2011 she duetted with [[Greg Dulli]] on the [[Twilight Singers]] record ''Dynamite Steps''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ani DiFranco credits|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ani-difranco-mn0000046794/credits|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=August 2, 2013}}</ref>

Other artists have covered and sampled DiFranco's work throughout the years. Her spoken word poem "Self Evident" was covered by [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]] founder [[Chuck D]]'s group called Impossebulls. [[Alana Davis]] had some commercial success with DiFranco's song "[[32 Flavors]]". Samples from the track "Coming Up" were used by [[DJ Spooky]] in his album ''Live Without Dead Time'', produced for [[AdBusters]] Magazine in 2003.{{cn|date=April 2025}} In 2010, DiFranco played [[Persephone]] on [[Anaïs Mitchell]]'s album [[Hadestown (album)|Hadestown]].{{cn|date=April 2025}}

DiFranco was approached by Zoe Boekbinder to work on their ''Prison Music Project'', an album of collaborations between incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers and musicians on the outside.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Douris|first=Raina|date=October 26, 2020|title=The Prison Music Project: Songs from Inside New Folsom Prison|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/10/26/927811718/the-prison-music-project-songs-from-inside-new-folsom-prison|access-date=October 6, 2021|website=[[NPR]]}}</ref> DiFranco co-produced the project with Boekbinder and co-wrote and performed "Nowhere but Barstow and Prison." The album ''Long Time Gone'' was released on [[Righteous Babe Records]] in 2020 after ten years in the making.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ebejer|first=Sandra|date=August 25, 2020|title=Ani DiFranco's 'Long Time Gone' Is the Perfect Mix of Activism and Creativity|url=https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/a33769059/ani-difrancos-long-time-gone/|access-date=October 6, 2021|website=[[Shondaland]]}}</ref>