#718 Whitney & Songs About Quitting Work
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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While critical and commercially successful “soft rock” music is rare in 2019, the Chicago band Whitney found a way to make it sound fresh and indie. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with the two main members of the band about how they came to their unique sound and their new album Forever Turned Around, released August 30th.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Shh. from W be Z Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim D. Regottis. |
| 0:29.0 | And I'm Greg Kott. At its heart, the band Whitney is really just a songwriting duo, so when they wanted to take their new songs on the road, they kind of lucked out. |
| 0:37.0 | We have a really good supportive friend group in Chicago, and they all just happen to play like the correct instruments. |
| 0:44.0 | We'll talk with Whitney about their new album, |
| 0:47.0 | Forever Turned Around. |
| 0:48.0 | Plus, in honor of Labor Day, we share our favorite songs about quitting your job. |
| 0:52.0 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. our favorite songs about quitting your job. |
| 0:53.0 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | This is sound opinions and later in the show we are talking with the band Whitney. |
| 1:05.8 | It just released its second album forever turned around. |
| 1:09.8 | But first, Greg, in honor of Labor Day, we are going to share our favorite songs about quitting |
| 1:16.6 | your job. |
| 1:17.6 | I have done this several times in my career. |
| 1:21.7 | It can feel very liberating, It can also feel very frightening. As with all great life-changing |
| 1:27.9 | events, there's a wide range of emotions and there's a lot of different songs encapsulating them and you get to go first. |
| 1:35.0 | Yes indeed Jim one of the most iconic figures that we're going to be talking about today |
| 1:40.4 | is this man Jimmy Reed a great blues artist from the 50s and 60s primarily when he had his greatest successes, |
| 1:48.8 | just a string of key songs during that era. Big Boss Man is one of the most well known of those |
| 1:56.9 | songs. It's a little shuffle, a blue shuffle, but the groove is one of those most imitated Jimmy Reed grooves of all time. |
| 2:05.0 | He had a great band with him in the studio including Willie Dixon on bass and Earl Phillips on drums |
| 2:10.0 | and his wife singing back up vocals. She was his co-songwriter on many songs. |
| 2:14.7 | This particular song was actually written by Reed's manager |
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