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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Something else. |
0:13.0 | to an amazing restaurant where we chew the fat. My guest today grew up in Bakersfield in California, |
0:15.8 | and is a musician, songwriter, an actor whose baritone voice propelled him to fame in the 2010s. |
0:20.9 | His album's liquid spirit in 2014 and take it to the alley in 2017 both won |
0:26.0 | Grammys and he fills the big prestigious music venues from the Royal Albert Hall to |
0:30.4 | the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. His journey has been an interesting one and so today |
0:34.6 | we talk about how he got to where he is now, how his family inspired him, and why not all love songs are |
0:40.1 | suitable for weddings. And hang tight dear listeners for a performance of his song Modern Day |
0:44.4 | Apprentice with me on piano just after halfway. It is the magnificent Gregory Porter. |
0:50.9 | Didn't he once do a wedding and the only songs you knew were sad songs? |
0:54.8 | Right. And I was like, you know, so I get on the microphone and what will I do when you are far away and I am blue. What do I do? |
1:09.0 | I know they all break up so. |
1:11.0 | My book doesn't work. So for this episode of Out to Lunch, we've come to Scarf Spa at the Rosebitter Hotel, |
1:27.0 | basically because it's got this lovely piano that I'm playing right now. |
1:32.0 | We needed a piano that I could perhaps play with Gregory Porter and |
1:37.6 | grape food which is coming from the Hoban dining rooms next door. We last were |
1:42.4 | here for Charles Dance but we thought it was worth |
1:45.1 | returning for the chance of great food, a bit of piano, and Gregory Porter. I |
1:50.9 | won't say let's get inside because we're already here. Enjoy. |
1:54.0 | Gregory, welcome. All right. |
2:04.0 | He said I've done that officially. |
2:05.0 | I've done that officially. |
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