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"I didn't know anything about the artist. You were mentioning the Dolly vibe. And I get that. You know, it reminds me of this kind of whole area of kind of off kilter non traditional music that is nonetheless, you know, kind of in the country umbrella. Like I was thinking like old town road, the Lil Nas tracker just came out of nowhere. And this is the same kind of vibe. It doesn't sound anything like old town road, but it has that same kind of out of left field vibe where, oh yeah, it's kind of a country. You know, you kind of wonder if these songs break through on country radio or not. It is winningly goofy, but brilliant, just like ours. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Okay. You want money from Alex? We both want something. Yeah, we'll tell you later. Andrew gill. Our other producer, what have you got, my friend? Well, you know, kind of like Alex Alex's pick reminded me of Marissa moss, who was on last week's show. Talking about the rainbow coalition of country artists that are sort of outside the mainstream. And I have a pick that's not really country more bluegrass, but we're probably be part if you're putting together a large rainbow coalition. He might fit into it. His name is Jake blunt. And he was actually recommended by a listener email listener named Josh Ruben emailed us and said that we should check out Jake blunt because he's a great artist and his family loves listening to his music. And yeah. And that's you and yes, yes. He came up as like a traditional bluegrass player playing banjo. He like won the Steve Martin banjo prize, which I didn't know was a thing, but apparently Martin's serious banjo. Yeah, yeah, and he's established this prize that's been given out awards for 12 years now. So you can get some serious money if you're one of those recipients. A little more academic than we would normally get into, but this new album that just came out called the new faith. It's on Smithsonian folkways. But it's really an interesting kind of Afro futurist reinterpretation of a lot of traditional type of bluegrass music. And so this song I want to play is didn't it rain, which was first made popular by sister Rosetta tharp. It's a traditional song, though. And the thing that's kind of interesting. I mean, it's just, it just sounds good. And there's a good groove to it, and good guitar solos. But the idea of this album is that he's re contextualizing these songs to be kind of about climate change, you know? So it didn't it rain was about the flood, you know, and Noah. But now it's about, you know, looking back on when the earth flooded, you know, from futuristic point of view. From climate change. So recontextualizing the lyrics as well as the sound. I mean, that scat rapping thing, taking sister Rosetta tharp somewhere. Yeah, he's dressed up. He looks like prince where he's like, got bondage gear, and he's playing banjo.
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"smithsonian folkways" Discussed on WORT 89.9 FM
"And today from Baltimore. I am so happy to have Dan and Claudia Zane's Dan and Claudia Welcome to the WRT airwaves. Thank you, Brian. Good to be here. Yes, And I'm glad we have all of My technical snafu who's ironed out? I appreciate your patience. All right, um, For most people who aren't familiar with Dan's work, Dan started off in the Delphi goes and had a successful careers. Ah, roots rocker. And then moved to making family music, which was about the same time that I was listening to it a lot and being an at home parents. So I thank you very much for making all these wonderful family records that helped Help me have musical experiences with my kids, which was the point of doing it and it was great. And finally, with this new the latest stuff like The release on Smithsonian Folkways of Leadbelly, Baby, It seems like you've hit this third phase with Claudia now where you're expanding to an even wider range of Not just kids music, but but just on family music. It seems like something even beyond that with going with something called sensory concerts, which I'll talk about in a second and things like that if I got in that history, correct. Yeah, I would say that. That all sounds really good. The You're right about Leadbelly, Baby. We It was the first thing that Claudia and I worked on together, and it was. It was a way of honoring lead belly's contribution to family music. I think you know, I think of him is really the architect of modern family music as we know it, not Children's music, but family music, All ages. Music. And though it was It was and I think Smithsonian did so much. Two. Create this whole body of work That really was meant to be a shared experience, which is exciting for us because we're going back in a couple days to make another record Christmas soon. Yeah. Hey. Yeah, I'm excited to hear that I'm to be associated with the Smithsonian label is, uh, certainly a feather in your cap, because certainly they Not only Have music that's preserved from the ages, but they're still making music that or putting out music that has a field. That's not just flash in the pan music. This is for all time. And so congratulations for being considered. Contributors to that. Thank you And Claudia, I asked you to do this once before technical snafu, But your back story isn't is well documented his dance can can you give our listeners a little back story of how you got up to the point where you met Dan? Sure s Oh, my musical background. I am Haitian American First generation and I was raised in a household where music was sort of the heartbeat of our existence. We listened to it daily. And so a lot of Haitian music really influenced me As a child. I sing in church choir on Ben. I got into gospel, Yeah gospel music and musical theater all of that jazz as well. And then I studied music therapy, So I am a board certified music therapist. And I was really inspired by how music can be used to enhance the quality of life to get through some of life's challenges and just be inspired to by my ancestors and just knowing the role that music has played. For for my people and for us is, you know it's people in general, just knowing again. The importance of that really inspires me to create And so, um, when I met Dan, our backgrounds just Kind of clicks. You know his work with family music and Children's music in my work is a therapist. We just kind of jumped in with both feet at once, and we knew we could really make an impact together with our skills. Yeah, you felt got these wonderfully diverse backgrounds that are different enough that they complement each other really well, and I think it's obvious when we listened to you. When listeners get to listen to what you're doing together, your harmonies were so sharp and so complimentary. Um And the way people can do that is they can go to Ah, what Dan and claudia dot com which would we one place to go, But also you have a YouTube Uh, Paige. That's got a whole bunch of your song serious that you did, and No. Uh, I'm not sure if all of our listeners are aware of this. I did talk about it a little bit. But you guys were doing 200 daily in a row. Social isolation song serious. Did you expect it to be 200 when you see Oh, way did not. I mean, Brian, I think like the rest of the world. We were just shocked when we entered into the state of emergency and we talked about what is it that we have to offer? And of course, we settled in on music. That's the thing we have to share. That's what we can turn to, and we know again, the power of music and how It cannot lift spirits. It can bring hope it can calm nerves, so we decided to do a song a day we thought it would last a month, tops. But then, of course, 200. Days later, we were still making songs and putting on a song a day, but not only that, even the art direction and how we recorded the songs in the space and the fabrics and everything that went into it it it sharpened our musicianship our connection to one another, but also our connection to the outside world as well. Oh, I'm sure I'm sure that folks can see that. There's sort of an arc of progress with your production skills to where it seems at first, there's you know, you're Like the rest of us just pointing a webcam at yourself and dealing with the echo. We space and Then there was the point where you seem to be in different parts of your apartment thing. There was, AH phase where there was just doing the ordinary things laundry, cutting hair working on your etc. Projects. And I think that was all really cool. But you finally ended up on what seemed like an endless pattern of beautiful Klaus behind you, too. And for those donated by friends after a while, if you just got a huge closet of fabric somewhere We have a huge family. That's exactly what it is way. Didn't even know why we had them until this one. Yes, we do. Oh, God, That's hilarious. Um, Dan, can you tell us a little bit about constructive white conversations? You like to hear more about that? Yeah, thanks for asking. It started about 10 years ago it in my living room, And when I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and I had been turned on to anti racism by my friend Mike felt Steve, my oldest best friend. He said. No, if you get into anti racism, what's gonna happen is you're gonna end up working with white people, and I thought, Man, that's not that's not why I'm in this thing at all. You know, I pictured these multi multi cultural spaces where this food and you know, dancing and meaningful social justice work and everybody's laughing and having a great time, you know. And in many ways my life is like that. But the real work of anti racism for me has been with white people and constructed by conversations is a way of creating conditions..
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"smithsonian folkways" Discussed on WORT 89.9 FM
"You're just right How blind I've been. I've had seen it. Thus his true that taxes you must pay without a word off us. You are subject to the laws man made And yet no word or note. Can you sing out where it will count? I'll help you win the vote. Yes, I will. Thank you, Joe. Well together soon people orders he will If you're yes. Up. Next. Elizabeth Knight, and I don't have any notes on who the male singer is on that, but that's called winning the vote. From songs of the suffragettes. Smithsonian Folkways released 1958 before that request. Hard times Come again No more. The Stephen Foster song. Versions by the Red Clay Ramblers. Judy Collins and Jonas Field When morning comes to America that's live from winter stories live from the Oslo Opera House came out this year as well. Sean Watkins and met Chamberland. Be lonesome Election blues. Herself title released they released earlier this year as well. And then the vote about buggy from 2012, Gerry S. Paxton. And Jim Lusk. And more songs coming up here on the green Morning radios. Special Election Day special got a big set coming up to sort of Take a lot of time up in this last hour and going to start off with The youth on sample of Atlanta, a song called Get Out and Vote. Another single It came out this year. And then the people United can never be defeated. Perry Winkle. After that, another request trio with their version of after the gold rush. Can long quest is going to stand and fight. And then we're going to hear a song about the president's From that election Songs album that we started our show off with Oscar brand. Followed by this man by Robert Crave, played that song a bunch now and then vote anyway by Stuart starts. And then if there's time we'll see what else we can fit in. But for now, let's just start this nice, long set off with a wonderful message Tune here. Called Get out and vote by the youth on Sambal of Atlanta..
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"Exceptional day. I can't believe I get to be a DJ on Election day. Uh, I'm surprised as you Anyways, What did we hear? We heard Simon and Garfunkel America That was the single mix from their greatest hits from 1972 Rodriguez. This is not a song. It's an outburst door. The establishment blues from the great Cold fact from 1970. Um, no. I had not heard of Rod regress until I saw the searching for Sugarman documentary and that movie just blew my mind. It was just so Brilliant. It was such a great film and in such a great way to introduce someone to the beauty of his music. Before that. Someone named Barb with a song called Vote Them Out single she made back in 2018, Gina, Magnus and Taj Mahal. Don't you wish it was true? A single that came out last year. And then a request for Neil Young campaigner in 2017 Hitchhiker. And obviously we're playing a lot of songs about voting and the election today here on the Green Morning radio think I might Just say for the point of it. First of all, this is a prerecorded show, so you can't Call the station and complain. You'd have to send me an email. That green Morning at W R A. T F m dot org and let me know if you like it. You don't like it? Also, of course, these songs don't always reflect the The attitudes and political release of the Bertie the station. Or its board of directors and sometimes even this DJ so Just want to make sure you know this is ah, This is food for thought songs here. And what's our next dose here and Article seven. I mean, set seven. Going to start off with the vote amount buggy from Gary S. Paxton and Jim Lusk and then an instrumental called the Lonesome Election Blues. From Sean Watkins and Matt Chamberlain came out this year. Judy Collins and Jonas A. Shield One morning comes to America. Also came out this year and then another request for hard times. Come again no more. This is the red clay Ramblers version from 1981 and then Another song from that suffragettes, Syria's Call the winning the vote very almost humorous, yet strangely outdated narrative of someone Not thinking the suffragettes had a point until they finally come around at the end of the song. Interesting 1958 again from Smithsonian Folkways Records. Let's start this off, though, with the vote him.