 She teamed up with an outside producer for the first time in her career, BJ Burton, who worked on one of Ani's favorite albums, Bon Iver's 22 A Million. He took my little demo and put it in his spaceship, went to Pluto and came back. I knew we were off to the races at that point. Plus, talking about her experience playing Persephone in Hadestown. Even though DeFranco has been a rock star on stage for decades, she quickly realized that Broadway doesn't mess around.