This is an I-Heart podcast.

Corinne Bailey Ray independently released one of my favorite albums of 2023, Black Rainbows. We had a chat over

Zoom at the end of the year about the place that inspired the album, the Stony Island Arts Bank in

Chicago. And then when she came to L.A. around Grammy time, we decided to meet up and continue our

conversation, not only about the new album and what it meant to find her own artistic voice again,

but also to discuss reflections, refractions at the Stony Island Arts Bank.

A beautiful book, Cren's put together cataloging the items that inspired her new music and her

creative awakening. The conversation takes us from Cren recording her third album,

The Heart Speaks and Whispers at Capitol in Hollywood, to finding a spiritual home in Chicago, to discovering a mid-century New York subway pageant that led to one of my favorite songs on her new album, The Rockis New York Transit Queen.

This is Broken Record. Liner Notes for the Digital Age. I is Broken Record.

Liner Notes for the Digital Age.

I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's my conversation with Corinne Bailey Ray.

Have you recorded here much in L.A.?

Yes, I have.

I did my third album at Capital.

Oh, no.

So I loved being there.

I mean, that was amazing.

We came for seven weeks and we ended up saying for seven months. I mean, that's amazing. We came for seven weeks

and we ended up saying

for seven months.

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