New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15
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🗓️ 15 April 2022
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Summary
Featured Albums:
1. Kaitlin Butts — what else can she do
Featured Song: "it won't always be this way"
2. Samora Pinderhughes — GRIEF
Featured Song: "Masculinity"
3. Mal Blum — Ain't It Nice
Featured Song: "Everybody Loves You"
4. Jerry Paper — Free Time
Featured Song: "Just Say Play"
5. Dave Brubeck Trio — Live From Vienna 1967
Featured Song: "St. Louis Blues"
Other notable releases for April 15:
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Flock of Dimes — Head of Roses (Phantom Limb
• Digga D — Noughty By Nature
• Kurt Vile — (watch my moves)
• Spanish Love Songs — Brave Faces, Etc.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and All Songs Considered. |
| 0:03.1 | I'm Stephen Thompson, it is April 15th, and there's a bunch of great new music out today. |
| 0:08.0 | Here with me to talk about it are NPR Music Contributor Serena Torres. |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, you, Steven. |
| 0:12.6 | Hello, Serena. Also host of the Artemacy podcast, Kiana Faracloth. Hey, Kiana. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey, Steven. I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:19.4 | Great to have you. Also, we've got Radio Milwaukee's Tereek Moody. |
| 0:23.0 | Howdy, Steven. |
| 0:24.0 | And I'm so thrilled to have you all here. |
| 0:25.8 | We are talking about the best new albums out today, starting with Caitlin Butts and her new album, What else can she do? |
| 0:32.8 | Speak of the devil in me, Walt. |
| 0:39.8 | It's like his ears burn when I talk. |
| 0:45.8 | Pushed in a gutter stuck in a rug, waiting for the next turn of the night in my gut. |
| 0:52.8 | Just trying to do whatever. |
| 1:00.8 | Somehow make myself feel bad. |
| 1:07.8 | And I guess I got you to think broken like the bottle that she drinks. |
| 1:13.8 | But it won't always be this way. |
| 1:20.8 | Won't always be this way. |
| 1:23.8 | But I'll have many times I'll say you won't always be this way. |
| 1:30.8 | That's it won't always be this way from what else can she do by the singer, Caitlin Butts. |
| 1:35.8 | This is her second album after 2015's Same Hell, Different Devil. Serena, tell me about Caitlin Butts. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, she's the country singer-songwriter from Oklahoma. |
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