Pushkin.

Dear friend of the show, Don Was, has had a remarkable career moving between different corners of the music world.

In the 1980s, he fronted the eclectic band Was Not Was, mixing funk, rock, and pop in unexpected ways.

As a producer, he's helped shape landmark albums for artists like the B-52s and Bonnie Raid.

Her album, Luck of the Draw, which she produced, featured the hit Something to Talk About,

and marked a major turning point in her career.

Over the years, he's worked with Bob Dylan and become a regular producer for the

Rolling Stones. For the past decade, Don has led Blue Note Records, as its president bringing new

energy to the story jazz label. And he's also just released his own album, Groove in the Face of

Adversity, a tribute to Detroit and the music that came out of the city where he grew up. On today's episode, I talked to

Don Was about his wide-ranging career and why his new album is his first under his name. He also

talks about how working with musical heroes like Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, and Brian Wilson

in the 90s initially shut down his own creative ambitions. N reflects on his time at Blue Note

and now his experience as a touring artist himself

now allows him to relate to the label's roster

in a completely different way.

This is Broken Record,

real musicians, real conversations.

This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed Human.

On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing.

Hey, if don't kill a cop and bury him, what are they going to do to me?

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