Carrie Newcomer — A Conversation with Music

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Something of a celebrity in Quaker circles, Carrie Newcomer is best known for her story-songs that get at the raw and redemptive edges of human reality. This week, a musical conversation with the Indiana-based and born folk singer-songwriter who’s been called a “prairie mystic.” She writes and sings about the grittiness of hope and the ease of cynicism.

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0:00.0	Today, a musical conversation with folks in our songwriter, Carrie Newcomer.
0:12.0	Looking out at the night, beyond the driver's wheel,
0:18.0	curving hips made of snow in the winter fields,
0:23.0	a lashing house set way back, where the lap-like glows,
0:29.0	like a star out in the cold,
0:32.0	through with people I never know,
0:35.0	who laughed the light,
0:37.0	laughed the light in the window.
0:41.0	Indiana, born and based, Carrie Newcomer has been called a Prairie Mystic.
0:46.0	She's best known for her story songs like Betty's Diner
0:50.0	that get at raw and redemptive edges of human reality.
0:54.0	She's also an interesting collaborator in writing and performance
0:58.0	with author and educator Parker Palmer,
1:01.0	novelist Barbara King-Solver, and neuroscientist Jill Bulti-Taylor.
1:09.0	I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.
1:12.0	I welcome to Carrie Newcomer and her guitar to the On Being Studios
1:16.0	on Loring Park in Minneapolis in 2014 before a live audience.
1:29.0	So, welcome to On Being on Loring Park.
1:33.0	It's so wonderful to have Carrie Newcomer here.
1:36.0	You're something of a celebrity in Quaker Circles.
1:45.0	Well, I've never heard that before.
1:47.0	It's kind of a phrase that you don't usually see.
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