Death, Sex & Money - Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Gifts From The Universe

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

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Summary

The 76-year-old musician reflects on his complex relationship with his parents growing up, finding new audiences late in life, and why he loves "being cared for" by his younger bandmates. Listen to his latest album, "Transmissions," here.

Mark your calendars for our upcoming national live call-in show, Getting Real About Getting Older, on Wednesday, February 3, at 8 pm Eastern! Anna and co-host Jo Ann Allen will be be taking calls from listeners over 60 about getting older right now—if that's you, call in, and listen on your local public radio station or via The Greene Space.

We've been sharing stories from listeners and guests over 60 all month long. Check out our previous episodes featuring Marlo Thomas, and guest host Jo Ann Allen in conversation with older listeners about unexpected health challenges and financial instability; feelings of isolation, invisibility and freedom; and shifting relationships with friends and loved ones at deathsexmoney.org/aging. You'll also find some of our favorite reading and listening about people over 60 and a playlist of some of our favorite past Death, Sex & Money episodes with older guests.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna. This episode today is part of our series about getting older right now.
0:06.3	And before we get into it, I want to let you know that we are doing a live national radio call-in about aging on Wednesday, February 3rd, from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time.
0:15.8	I'll be hosting, along with Joanne Allen, whom you heard hosting our episode, Just Ask Us, Your Stories about Life After 60. We had to postpone this follow-up special because of all the breaking news out of Washington, and we are excited to finally talk together live about what those of you over 60 are noticing about aging right now. Again, that's coming up Wednesday, February 3rd on public radio stations across the country,
0:41.3	or you can listen on the death, sex, and money, Facebook, or Twitter pages where we'll be streaming the whole thing.
0:47.1	You can also text the word aging to the number 70101.
0:51.2	And we'll send you a reminder of when we're about to go live.
0:56.8	I really believe that we are constantly affecting everything around us and it responds to us.
1:05.6	So if we can hold or primarily hold a positive feeling about the world, about ourselves, and hold hope we can change the world.
1:20.4	This is death, sex, and money.
1:23.6	This show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.
1:29.6	I'm Anna Sale.
1:31.6	Welcome to spring, the summer rain, softly turned to sing again.
1:43.1	Welcome the bud, the summer blooming. this is beverley
1:48.0	This is Beverly Glenn Copeland, whose music has been an essential sound for me through these last several months.
2:00.0	Glenn is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter who's been quietly putting out
2:04.6	albums since the 1970s.
2:07.0	This song, Ever New, was released by Glenn in 1986 on an album called Keyboard Fantasies.
2:14.6	The album went largely unnoticed until 2015, when a Japanese record collector emailed to ask Glenn if he had any more copies.
2:23.6	I wouldn't go so much as to say it was exciting. I would say I was thinking, oh, that's great.
2:29.1	And there must have some around here somewhere. And I didn't even remember where they were.
2:32.5	My wife said, yeah, this is where they are and she went and pulled them all out.
2:37.3	Otherwise, I'd still be looking for them, right?
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