New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more
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🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Brittany Davis: "I Choose to Live," from I Choose to Live EP
2. Valerie June: "Use Me" (Single)
3. Arcade Fire: "Lightning I, II," from WE
4. The Smile: "Skrting On the Surface" (Single)
5. Congotronics International: "Where's The One?," from Where's The One?
6. Andrew Bird: "Atomized" (Single)
7. Typhoon: "New Wife," from Underground Complex EP
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | For MPR music, you're connected to all songs considered. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm Bob Boyland with new music from an insightful new artist, Brittany Davis, |
| 0:08.0 | as a blind and non-binary black musician and formally homeless. |
| 0:12.4 | Brittany's message is a potent expression of hope. |
| 0:16.0 | The EP I choose to live with champion by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, |
| 0:20.9 | and it's on their label, Luc groove Records. |
| 0:23.7 | I have some thoughts from Brittany about the song, |
| 0:25.7 | but I want to play the title track first, |
| 0:28.0 | and then we'll hear from Brittany. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm a pro-foss, but I hate this broken thing. |
| 1:03.0 | The things done to that black queen, and leave you spirit shanky. |
| 1:06.0 | Warriors on the rise, we forgot how to win it. |
| 1:09.0 | Tens in my sister's eyes, racism and social stint. |
| 1:12.0 | Big immersing from God is with your versus French Jimmy. |
| 1:15.0 | Them rosy Gucci glasses got all of our eyes, didn't it? |
| 1:18.0 | Two other front line workers who witnessed it all. |
| 1:21.0 | Two the families who suffered lost and had no one to call. |
| 1:24.0 | I urge you not to quit because this is the time to stand. |
| 1:27.0 | So if you'll lift with me, lift your hands. |
| 1:29.0 | I choose to live, I choose to live, I choose to live. |
| 1:34.0 | And I, I choose to live, and I will quit. |
| 1:38.0 | I'll be giving all that I get. |
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