Episode 200 - Jon Batiste

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Sodajerker, Barber, Simon, Music Interviews, Liverpool, Songwriters, Musicians, Oconnor, Songwriting, Interviews, Music, Podcast, Brian

4.9 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For this very special 200th episode, Simon and Brian revel in the boundless creativity of musician Jon Batiste. The Late Show bandleader joins Sodajerker from his piano to explain the writing process behind his life-affirming record We Are, how he understands music in terms of frequencies, and what he feels is his superpower as an artist.

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0:00.0	Well, well, looks like we've got ourselves a cold open, Simon.
0:04.0	That can mean only one thing, Brian.
0:06.0	Yep, we've reached another milestone, our 200th episode.
0:10.0	The old double century, eh? The Bicentennial?
0:12.8	The scyened bicentennial?
0:14.8	Very nice.
0:16.8	But we've got a show more than worthy of the occasion coming right up, but first we'd like to take this
0:20.9	opportunity to thank you, our cherished listeners, for all your
0:24.5	support and encouragement since day one.
0:26.9	We'd also like to thank all the publicists and managers who've helped us along the way in setting
0:31.2	up the interviews without them championing the
0:33.7	podcast and seeing the value in what we do well we wouldn't have any guests to
0:37.1	speak to. Speaking of guests were so incredibly grateful to each and every songwriter
0:41.8	who's appeared on the show so far and helped
0:44.3	us build what's become a pretty formidable archive they said modestly.
0:48.3	But yeah we'll be eternally grateful for their generosity in sharing their thoughts with us on this
0:53.9	endlessly fascinating and mysterious process we call songwriting and also thanks to
0:59.1	Vuk and to Jack for all their editing assistants. And thank you, Brian.
1:03.0	No, thank you.
1:05.0	No, thank you.
1:06.0	No, you're Don Francisco's sister.
1:08.0	Wait, do you hear that?
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