Live at Home Part II: Phoebe Bridgers

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Phoebe Bridgers’s tour dates were cancelled—she was booked at Madison Square Garden, among other venues—so she performs songs from her recent album, “Punisher,” from home. The critic Amanda Petrusich talks about the joys of Folkways records, and the novelist Donald Antrim talks about a year in which he suffered from crippling depression and rarely left his apartment, finding that only music could be a balm for his isolation and fear.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:09.4	Okay, so here is a first turntable.
0:15.4	This is a really excellent turntable because it plays 78s as well as 45s and 33s.
0:20.9	There's also like a cassette player in the quarter here.
0:24.7	This cabin is like 1,200 square feet.
0:27.7	The three turntables is a bit much, I think.
0:31.8	In the spring, our music critic Amanda Petrusich went into quarantine
0:35.1	just a couple of hours away from New York City.
0:37.7	She's isolated from other people, but also for most of her vast record collection, she could only
0:42.7	carry one or two boxes of records with her. And for somebody who cares as much about music as Amanda
0:48.1	does, those are pretty hard choices. And here are some records. Okay. Donnie and Joe Emerson, this record is wild.
0:59.0	John Coltrane, more John Coltrane, more John Coltrane,
1:06.0	Leonard Cohen for when it's late at night and you've had too much wine.
1:16.5	Merle Haggard's greatest hits for when it's three in the afternoon and you've had too much wine.
1:19.4	Neil Young.
1:28.5	So I feel like if you were to ask any music fan, you know, like right now, pick the five things you take with you, you know, to the other side.
1:30.2	And you don't know when you're coming back again.
1:34.8	I think it would incite a kind of panicked meltdown in most of them.
1:39.0	It's hard to anticipate, you know, what you're going to want and need and when.
1:46.2	So you kind of start taking this weird inventory of yourself and the contents of your mind and sort of what you need to get by. I have a company called New York City Blues. I have some Lightning Hopkins, folk songs of Puerto Rico. That's another folkways record.
1:54.2	Music of the Bahamas. That's another folkways record. Traditional Cajun Fiddle, a great folkways record.
2:00.4	So Mississippi, John Hurd.
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