You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Linsonmeyer.

My guest for episode 215 is Lynn Drury, a New Orleans singer-songwriter who's released 10 albums since 2001.

We'll discuss the title track to her new album, High Tide,

then 1111 from 2017's Rise of the Fall,

and Drugstore from her first album, 2001's Crossing Frequencies.

We'll conclude by listening to I Waited Too Long, also from that new album.

Right now you're hearing City Life from Sugar on the

Floor, 2011. Hear more at Lindreuri.com. That's two ends. Hear more of this podcast at

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I will play a little bit of City Life from Sugar on the Floor, 2011.

You were saying that is your most requested, most popular song you close with.

What is your career arc?

Has it just been steadily going up, or was that sort of the peak?

Just a steady, slow in time.

Yes, just a steady, slow.

I don't know. City Life, it's one of those songs that I remember writing and I remember it just sort of being a stream of consciousness. And I mean, I repeat every single line twice. It's just the funniest thing to me. But for some reason, it was a post-Katrina song. It's so funny because I can't get

away without playing it. I have to play it. So it's a lovely song. I think, you know, I was just

riding my bike and noticing the broken windows and they were shimmering and seeing the beauty

and in destruction, I guess. Yes, as a, I know New Orleans,

more than some other places. I'm in Madison, Wisconsin. Okay, we're at, we're local artists,

we're Madison artists, but this is not a particular image that that connotes. When I lived in

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