New Mix: Margo Price, The Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Hand Habits, More

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes and discoveries of the week, including a powerful song on addiction from Margo Price, a stirring violin concerto, and more surprises.

1. Hand Habits: "4th of July," from dirt - EP
2. Miss Grit: "Impostor," from Impostor - EP
3. Margo Price: "Hey Child," from That's How Rumors Get Started
4. Anna Fox Rochinski: "Cherry," from Cherry
5. Anna B Savage: "Baby Grand," from A Common Turn
6. Iceland Symphony Orchestra: "Violin Concerto by Daníel Bjarnason," from Occurrence

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0:00.0	Hey, my name is Peter Segal and I am here to help you with the most pressing problem
0:03.6	facing civilization today.
0:05.0	There are too many good podcasts to listen to.
0:08.0	Now why not avoid that whole problem by listening to an extremely silly podcast hosted by me?
0:12.4	On Weight Weight Don't Tell Me, it's Wisecracks about the week's news, shenanigans, fart
0:15.7	jokes, and general silliness.
0:17.5	And doesn't that sound pretty great right now?
0:19.7	Listen to the Weight Weight Don't Tell Me Podcast from NPR.
0:23.2	For NPR music it's all songs considered on Bob Boyland and I'm thrilled to tell you
0:26.9	about this new song from Handhabits.
0:29.3	Handhabits is the music of Meg Duffy.
0:31.5	I first heard their music as a guitar player for Kevin Morby and then was enthralled by
0:36.8	Handhabits 2019 album called Play Solder.
0:40.4	Now there's a new song, part of an EP by Handhabits called Dirt.
0:44.2	I'll play the opening track called Fourth of July.
0:47.8	Here's Meg Duffy to introduce the song.
0:50.4	The song Fourth of July came from this memory I have of visiting my hometown after not
0:56.0	visiting for a couple of years and driving over this bridge and expecting to see this
1:02.0	factory that was abandoned and as a kid I used to go in to it all the time and mess around,
1:08.9	break glass, do kid things in a small town.
1:13.5	It was such an anchor of my memory when I drove into Amsterdam, New York I would see it
1:18.5	coming over the bridge and this time I went back home and the factory was gone.
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