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  • Music Interviews

A Melting Pot Of Traditions: Regina Carter Talks With Lara Downes

The genre-disrupting violinist talks about the problem with labeling music and the importance of being a role model for young women.

April 10, 2021
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By:
  • Lara Downes
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

No Longer '20 Feet From Stardom': Singer Merry Clayton Steps Out Of The Background

Clayton sang backup with Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Carole King and many others. Now she has a new album — where she's front and center — called Beautiful Scars. Originally broadcast in 2013.

April 09, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
A musician, disoriented by his loss of work and the inefficiency of bureaucracy, made the best of waiting in line for unemployment by making music.

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  • Music News

Lovely Songs From The Big Hold, Inspired By Bureaucracy

Millions lost their jobs to the pandemic and needed to file for unemployment benefits, but met busy lines – including a composer from Austin, who made an album to counteract the vibe.

April 08, 2021
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By:
  • Matt Largey
Clayton was ready to take her stardom to the next level, but these plans were put on hold after going through car accident that left her without both legs.

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  • Music Interviews

Merry Clayton Bares Her 'Beautiful Scars'

Seven years after surviving a car crash that took her legs and nearly took her life, singer Merry Clayton is releasing a new album, Beautiful Scars.

April 08, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Phil Harrell
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for singer-songwriter H.E.R., who, after winning two Grammy awards in one night, was nominated for an Oscar the morning after.

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  • Music Interviews

H.E.R. Is A 'Soul Baby' With A Social Conscience

The morning after winning two Grammy awards, R&B singer H.E.R. received an Oscar nomination for the song "Fight For You" from the film Judas and the Black Messiah.

April 07, 2021
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Angel Bat Dawid is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist rooted in Chicago's jazz scene.

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  • Music Interviews

Play It Forward: Angel Bat Dawid Knows How To Deliver Emotion Through Song

NPR speaks with Angel Bat Dawid about capturing emotion in sound, Chicago's influence on her music and the artist she's most grateful for: George Clinton.

April 05, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro and
  • Noah Caldwell
"Queer people love country music," singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile says. "... We just don't think that it's going to open its doors to us. And when it does, it's wildly satisfying."

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  • Music Interviews

Singer Brandi Carlile Talks Ambition, Avoidance And Finally Finding Her Place

The six-time Grammy winner got her start as a kid, singing backup for an Elvis impersonator. Her new memoir, Broken Horses, is about her early life and the family she's built.

April 05, 2021
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By:
  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Jon Batiste On His New Album, 'We Are'

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jon Batiste. The prolific artist, who has composed music for Disney and whose band plays for Stephen Colbert, is releasing a solo album.

April 04, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Leslie Jordan hopes that, no matter how you were raised, you can listen and enjoy <em>Company's Comin'</em>.

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  • Music Interviews

On 'Company's Comin',' Leslie Jordan And Gospel Greats Sing For Joy

Emmy award-winning actor and comedian Leslie Jones' popularity has reached new heights during the pandemic, now marked with the release of his new gospel music album, Company's Comin'.

April 02, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro and
  • Mia Venkat
From left: Angel, Israel, Momo, Abraham and Victory Boyd. The pandemic afforded the Boyd family a chance to harmonize interpersonally, before doing the same as Infinity Song.

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  • Music Interviews

Get Out Of Your Head With Infinity Song's 'Outside Myself'

"Outside Myself," Infinity Song's entry for the Morning Edition Song Project, is about trying to remember the big, wide world outside of you.

March 31, 2021
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  • Rachel Martin,
  • Vince Pearson,
  • and 1 more
Kanye West's sixth studio album, <em>Yeezus</em>, is the subject of <em>Dissect</em>'s latest season.

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  • Music Interviews

Dissecting Kanye West's Turning Point, In Microscopic Detail

Rodney Carmichael talks with Cole Cuchna, the host of Dissect, about the focus for his podcast's new season: Kanye West's divisive, career-pivoting 2013 album Yeezus.

March 29, 2021
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By:
  • Rodney Carmichael
Amy Lee and her band, Evanescence, have released their first new album of original material in almost a decade.

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  • Music Interviews

Amy Lee, Co-Founder Of Evanescence, Is Ready To Tell Her 'Bitter Truth'

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Amy Lee, the co-founder and singer of Evanescence, about her band's first new album of original material in nearly a decade.

March 28, 2021
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By:
  • Sophia Alvarez Boyd and
  • Sarah McCammon
Syrian-American pianist and composer Malek Jandali, photographed on May 16, 2015 in Dubai.

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  • Music News

Composer Malek Jandali Considers Syria's Civil War, A Decade On

A simple piece that composer Malek Jandali wrote in 2011 became inextricable from the early protests in Syria. For a decade now, that connection has informed and invigorated his life and work.

March 27, 2021
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By:
  • Deborah Amos

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  • Music Interviews

Words Won't Fail Us: Rita Dove Talks With Lara Downes

The former poet laureate, Pulitzer winner and musician says she's obsessed with telling neglected stories and making poems sing.

March 27, 2021
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By:
  • Lara Downes
Arthur and Abrams have collaborated on similar projects in the past, including a rap opera about Muhammad Ali in 2017.

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  • Music Interviews

'Music Is Music': A Rapper And A Conductor Cross Centuries In Louisville

Rapper-turned-politician Jecorey Arthur is teaming up with Teddy Abrams, the head of the Louisville's orchestra, for a musical collaboration tackling racial injustice.

March 26, 2021
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By:
  • Ari Shapiro and
  • Noah Caldwell
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