#639 Don Was, Opinions on Superchunk & Dessa
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Don Was is a bassist in the band Was (Not Was), a successful music producer for artists like The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and the president of legendary jazz label Blue Note Records. This week, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot pick the brain of the multi-talented Don Was about his influences, what he looks for in an artist and what he loves about music. Plus, Jim and Greg review new albums from indie rock band Superchunk and rapper Dessa.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Shh! Shh! Shh, Shhut. From W be easy Chicago and PRX this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:32.8 | And I'm Greg Cott. This week we talked to musician, producer, and record label President Don |
| 0:37.6 | was. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm just attracted to artists who have a vision, but maybe don't actually know how to accomplish it and to help |
| 0:46.2 | them realize what's in their head. |
| 0:48.2 | Plus we review new music from indie rockers superchunk and rapper Dessa. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:58.8 | You're listening to sound opinions and later on Jim we are going to talk in depth |
| 1:05.1 | with Don Waz about his career as a producer and record label President but first |
| 1:10.6 | we've got some new music to review. at the bottom of swamp. There was no air but to be clear darkness was all you wanted. |
| 1:28.0 | And now just float into the surface, |
| 1:32.0 | hoping find some kind of life |
| 1:34.4 | the vice to a lift but something stinks |
| 1:37.8 | that you will never to smell right |
| 1:41.3 | but there's a cooking line that runs through every green's in this map. |
| 1:49.0 | And you want to take us all the way back. |
| 1:51.0 | That is a little bit of superchunk. What a time to be alive the title track of album number 11. |
| 1:58.0 | From a band that pretty much defines Indie Rock for the last couple of decades, Greg. |
| 2:03.6 | Superchunk came together in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 2:06.8 | in 1989 around singer-guitarist Mac MacCon |
| 2:10.9 | and bassist Laura Balance. |
| 2:13.1 | When I say to find Indie Rock for an entire generation, |
| 2:17.2 | they are of course also the duo behind Merge Records, |
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