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Composer Vijay Iyer, poet Mike Ladd, Iraq War veteran and poet Maurice Decaul, and a live band play selections from Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project, in-studio, (Archives.) (episode)
Wrap yourself in twangy and fuzzy songs from Brighton-based Juanita Stein and her band. They play tunes from Juanita’s latest solo album, ‘Snapshot,’ made in tribute to her late father. (episode)
Sam Amidon explores classic folk tunes – shape note anthems, murder ballads, traditional songs - and sets them in the “imagined space of an album fantasy world.” He joins us remotely. (episode)
Songwriter Thao Nguyen's 2013 album with The Get Down Stay Down, 'We The Common,' marked a turning point both in Nguyen's career and in her life. They played in-studio. (Archives, 2013.) (episode)
Naomi Shelton And The Gospel Queens (Daptone Records) play spirit-lifting songs, in-studio. Alabama native Shelton channels the human condition and personal burdens. (Archives, 2014) (episode)
The New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding writes captivating and intense, yet bleak and fragile songs. She plays her melancholic folk in-studio. (From the Archives, 2016.) (episode)
Lomelda is the stage name of Texas-born, LA-based singer-guitarist Hannah Read. She plays her inventively-arranged songs spanning folk, indie rock and Baroque pop, solo and remotely. (episode)
Legendary New Orleans singer Aaron Neville performs a piano and microphone set live in The Greene Space, enlisting the audience as percussionists on one of the tunes, (Archives, 2010.) (episode)
Singer-songwriter Randy Newman chronicled his life's work on a three-part retrospective, featuring bare-bones arrangements of his songs at the piano. He plays in-studio, (from 2011.) (episode)