Best Of: Folk Musician Jerron Paxton / Lyricist Ira Gershwin's Legacy

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Musician Jerron Paxton is known for performing music from the 1920s and '30s. He just came out with an album of his own songs, called Things Done Changed. Paxton brought some of his instruments to his conversation with Sam Briger.

Also, Terry Gross talks with author Michael Owen about Ira Gershwin, the lyricist behind many of the most enduring songs in The Great American Songbook.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the documentary Beatles '64.

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0:23.2	Today, folk musician Geron Paxson brings some instruments to play for our conversation.
0:28.2	He plays guitar, banjo, and harmonica.
0:31.2	Paxton is known for performing music from the 1920s, but he just came out with an album of his
0:36.1	own songs called Things Done Changed.
0:38.5	Most of these songs, if not all these songs, came from a little bit of inspiration and also
0:43.7	at least a little bit of pushing the pencil along the page, I think as Irving Berlin said.
0:50.1	Also, Terry talks with author Michael Owen about Ira Gershwin, the lyricist behind many of the most enduring songs in the Great American Popular Songbook.
0:58.3	Songs like Fascinating Rhythm. I got rhythm. It's wonderful, embraceable you. Let's call the whole thing off, and they can't take that away from me.
1:05.9	He has a new book about Gershwin. And TV critic David B. and Cooley reviews a new Beatles documentary on Disney
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