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Search NPR, Black Stories, Black Truths, wherever you get your podcasts. Well, Mother's Day is almost here and that's got us thinking again about our moms and all the things we got and learned from them, including music.

We asked listeners to tell us about a song that

reminds them of their mom, maybe when their mom played or sang all the time. This is a question

that we've actually asked a handful of times over the years and we always love

hearing what listeners have to share. This go-around we were absolutely

inundated with song picks and stories. This song that we're hearing right now, this is Hogi Carmichael's

Stardust. It was just one of the tracks that people mentioned. It's a beautiful

song. I had to play it. I am here with NPR Musics,, Mitra, Arthur, Hey Mitra.

Hey, Robin.

Mitra, we did the show together that I absolutely loved a while back about the songs that hit us hard.

Yeah.

And I've wanted to have you back on ever since and so thank you so much for doing this.

I'm very happy to be here and appreciative of the invite. Well, I think this is a good one for you because I know you're close to your family I know you love your mom and no music

important to you so I thought of you and I thought oh we should totally have

this conversation so what we're gonna do is we're just going to share some of the

stories and songs that we got from listeners. People wrote in, they also recorded voice memos and

they sent those in and we're only going to get to a fraction of what people submitted.

We also have our own picks that we're going to share.

But Meitcher, why don't you start us off with one of the voice memos we got?

Yeah, so this first voice memo we have comes from Grace, a

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