Corinne Bailey Rae

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Music

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Corinne Bailey Rae is an English singer/songwriter whose career started with a bang. In 2006 her debut album topped UK charts and was certified triple platinum with the help of her first hit single, “Put Your Records On.” A slew of awards and other “best new artist” distinctions followed. As she released subsequent albums, Corinne aspired to stretch herself as an artist beyond neo-soul pop-music success.

In September, Corinne Bailey Rae released her excellent, genre-hopping fourth album, Black Rainbows. It’s an album inspired by her time spent exploring Chicago’s historic Stony Island Arts Bank—a vast collection of Black cultural relics and writing.

On today’s episode Justin Richmond talks to Corinne Bailey Rae about the years she spent in the Arts Bank archives and the stories that inspired her new work. She also talks about her record label’s exhaustive effort trying to push her to recreate the success of her first album. And how an indie skateboarding magazine helped clarify the look of her new album.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	Cren Bailey Raise An English singer-songwriter whose career started with a bang.
0:16.0	In 2006 her debut album Talked to UK Charts and was certified Triple Platinum with the help of her
0:21.2	first hit single Put Your Records on.
0:24.2	A slew of awards and other best new artist distinctions followed.
0:28.0	As she put out subsequent albums, Corinne as a artist beyond Neosol pop music success.
0:35.6	In September, Karim Bailey Ray released her fourth album, Black Rainbows.
0:39.8	It's an album inspired by her time spent exploring Chicago's historic Stony Island Arts Bank. The album is in many ways the
0:43.0	Stony Island Arts Bank, a vast collection of black
0:45.9	cultural relics and writing.
0:48.1	Corin's new album is in many ways a reaction to the art she
0:51.2	consumed in that archive.
0:53.7	It's performed in a mix of jazz, rock, and the avant-garde.
0:57.9	On today's episode, I talked to Krim Bailey Ray
1:00.1	about the years she spent in the Arts Bank Archives and the stories that inspired her new work.
1:05.6	She also talked about her record label's exhaustive efforts to push her to recreate the success of her first album,
1:11.3	and how a skateboarding magazine helped clarify the look of her new record.
1:18.2	This is Broken Record. Liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond. Here's my conversation with
1:24.9	Corinne Bailey Ray. Your record I listened to it a guess went for a walk to go get some
1:30.5	coffee and listen to it again.
1:32.6	Like it is really surprising how many different sounds
1:37.0	are on here.
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