A Halloween mix: Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, Sunny War, John Cale, more

NPR Music

NPR

Music

4.3 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, John Cale's first new album in a decade and more.

Featured Songs and Artists:
1. Sunny War: "No Reason," from Anarchist Gospel
2. Andrew Bird & Phoebe Bridgers: "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (Single)
3. Seán Barna: "Everyone's a Queen on Halloween" (Single)
4. John Cale: "STORY OF BLOOD (feat. Weyes Blood)," from MERCY
5. Weyes Blood: "Grapevine," from And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
6. Micah Frank & Chet Doxas: "Ave Maria (Featuring Mary Lattimore)," from The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	For Imperial music, you connected to all songs considered.
0:02.8	I'm Bob Boylin.
0:04.4	And I want to play some thrilling new music for you by Sonny War.
0:08.3	The Nashville-based musician may be the first to tell you
0:11.5	that she's filled with conflict.
0:13.7	There's a self-destructive side that includes addiction
0:16.4	and her strong desire to do good.
0:19.1	On the musical side, there's a love of ACDC and Metallica
0:22.1	and dusty Southern blues.
0:24.4	For me, even her moniker, Sonny War,
0:27.4	sounds like a mix of beauty and life struggles.
0:30.7	Her new album is called Anarchist Gospel
0:33.0	and it begins with a song called No Reason.
0:36.3	Hi, this is Sonny War.
0:38.0	And my song No Reason was recorded at the Bombs Shelter
0:42.1	in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:44.1	And it's about the internal struggle
0:48.4	that all people face just trying to, like,
0:53.2	be the best version of themselves.
0:55.5	And just the guilt that you feel when you're not
0:59.9	being the best version of yourself.
1:01.6	And it's just kind of also about the angel and the demon
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.