I love this. You're listening to Nakedly Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Linson Meyer. My guest for episode 215 is Lynn Drury, a New Orleans singer-songwriter who's released 10 albums since 2001.

We'll discuss the title track to her new album High Tide, then 11-11 from 2017's

Rise of the Fall, and Drugstore from her first album 2001's Crossing

Frequencies will conclude by listening to I waited too long also from that

new album. Right now you're hearing a city life from Sugar on the floor 2011.

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I will play in a little bit of city life from examined music.

I will play in a little bit of city life from Sugar on the Floor 2011. You were saying that is your most requested, most popular song you close with.

What is your career arc?

Like has it just been steadily going up or was that sort of the peak?

That's a steady, slow, incline. Yes, just a steady, slow. I don't know.

City Life, it's one of those songs that I remember writing and I remember it just sort of being a stream of consciousness and I mean I repeat every single line twice it's just the funniest thing to me but for some reason it was a post-Katrina song. It's so funny because I can't get away without playing it. I have to play it. So it's a lovely song. I think you know it's just

riding my bike and noticing the broken windows and they're shimmering and seeing the

beauty and in destruction I guess. Yes as a I know New

Orleans more than some other places I'm in Madison Wisconsin okay we're mad at

we're local artists we're Madison artists but this is not a particular image that that connotes.

When I lived in Austin, there was this just rampant Texas chauvinism that, you know, unless you're

from Texas, I don't even know if we'll grudgingly let you in the bars but New Orleans I haven't

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