It's pretty incredible to think about, but right now, because of coronavirus, about 95%

of all Americans are living under some sort of order to stay home.

That's pretty much everyone in a country of more than 328 million people.

Being shut in, day after day, can be stressful and sad and lonely and boring, but sometimes

it truly can be joyful.

Those of us who love music, and I'm definitely one of them.

We can't go to shows, we can't go to the club, we can't get together and just sing.

That creative is our creative.

We can and are finding new ways to keep the music going.

The importance of music is to keep our spirits up, even though we're social distancing,

of course.

There's some sense of community that's been brought out of that that is kind of new and wouldn't

have happened if we hadn't been on this big huge shutdown.

I'm tremendously and this is into America.

And today, just a few of the stories of people making and using music in these difficult times.

To help me, I called up an old friend.

Hello, Bonso.

How are you, sir?

I followed Bonso Thompson's career long before we were friends.

He's written for a lot of my favorite music and culture magazines, and he's really connected

to the music industry.

So when we decided to do an episode about music in this moment, I said I got to get Bonso

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