New Mix: Angel Olsen, Shirley Collins, More

All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week's All Songs Considered features Angel Olsen's first album made without a backing band in eight years, 85-year old British folk legend Shirley Collins and a bunch of wonderful new discoveries.

1. Angel Olsen: "Whole New Mess" from Whole New Mess
2. Chrissy Stewart: "House of Christina" from House of Christina
3. Le Ren: "The Day I Lose My Mind" from Morning & Melancholia
4. Saadi: "Pearl" from Saadi
5. Shirley Collins: "Barbara Allen" from Heart's Ease
6. Cinder Well: "Our Lady's" from No Summer

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0:00.0	How do you maintain a friendship in the middle of a pandemic?
0:02.6	Including our last restaurant meal.
0:04.3	My last restaurant meal was with you.
0:05.8	I love that.
0:06.5	Wow.
0:07.6	I'm not too so.
0:08.5	And Anne Friedman gave me some friend pointers.
0:11.2	They host the podcast called,
0:12.4	called your girlfriend.
0:13.7	And they wrote a book all about friendship.
0:16.4	Listen and subscribe now to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:20.1	From NPR Music, it's all songs considered.
0:22.5	I'm Bob Boylin.
0:23.7	Angel Olson has a whole new mess,
0:25.9	or at least that's the title of her new solo album.
0:29.2	It's her first solo album in eight years.
0:32.0	You may remember in 2019 when Angel Olson released all mirrors.
0:36.8	We talked with her and co-produced
0:38.6	a John Cundleton about how the origins of that record came
0:42.6	from recording all the songs solo.
0:45.5	And the idea is that one day those recordings
0:48.1	of her recording solo would come out.
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