New Mix: Lucy Dacus, Producer George Martin's Secret 'Ray Cathode' Project, More

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes of the week including a "Hot and Heavy" track from Lucy Dacus, and Beatles producer George Martin's little-known side project, Ray Cathode.

1. Lucy Dacus: "Hot & Heavy," from Home Video
2. Uwade: "The Man Who Sees Tomorrow" (Single)
3. Field Music: "When You Last Heard From Linda," from Flat White Moon
4. Ray Cathode (George Martin and Maddalena Fagandini): "Time Beat" (Single)
5. Ray Cathode (George Martin and Maddalena Fagandini): "Waltz In Orbit" (Single)
6. Rosie Tucker: "Barbara Ann," from Sucker Supreme
7. Smoothboi Ezra: "Stuck" from Stuck EP

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0:00.0	In stressful times, you want to spend your time checking out not just what's best, but
0:05.2	what's best for you.
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0:23.6	For NPR music, you connect it to all songs considered I'm Bob Boylin.
0:27.5	For her third album titled Home Video, Lucy Deakus is looking at the past.
0:33.1	Quite literally, she's gone through old family footage, reflecting on what it was like
0:37.2	coming of age and discovering her place in life while growing up in Richmond, Virginia.
0:42.4	The video for this song, Hot and Heavy, brings the past to the present with friends gathering
0:47.1	in a movie theater watching home movies of Lucy as a child.
0:51.2	I'll post that video on the all songs considered site.
0:54.3	Here's Lucy Deakus to tell us more.
0:56.5	Hot and Heavy I wrote in 2017 before anything from historian even came out.
1:03.4	Being able to share it feels really surreal.
1:06.0	I kind of forgot people would hear it eventually.
1:10.7	It's based off of some feelings I was having after touring a lot for the first time after
1:15.4	no burden, coming back to Richmond and feeling like it had changed and I had changed and
1:21.0	people's perception of me had changed.
1:24.7	That was a really weird destabilizing time, honestly, but a growth time.
1:30.8	BI, I'm really proud of the music video because it involves so many people that I love
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