Play It Forward: A Musical Chain Of Gratitude
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Shapiro starts the chain with an artist he's thankful for, and then that musician chooses someone they're thankful for, and it continues onward with each artist choosing the next link in the chain.
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| 0:00.0 | I've had a Thanksgiving tradition, going back years now, since long before I was a full-time |
| 0:04.8 | NPR host. |
| 0:06.4 | Thanksgiving was the day I would fill in. |
| 0:08.7 | Guest hosting and PR's evening news program all things considered. |
| 0:12.8 | And back when I started, the show would always do an extra long performance chat with a |
| 0:17.4 | musician, special for Thanksgiving Day. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's a bit of my first chat. |
| 0:22.0 | It was with John Mayer in 2013. |
| 0:24.2 | We've got a lightning round for you. |
| 0:26.6 | What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? |
| 0:27.9 | Favorite Thanksgiving food stuffing. |
| 0:29.4 | What's your favorite cord? |
| 0:31.2 | It was probably like an E minor 11 or something at some point. |
| 0:33.8 | It was like, it's nice. |
| 0:37.4 | And sure, part of this was just like a way to fill a show on a notoriously slow news |
| 0:42.2 | day. |
| 0:43.2 | But it was also a way to give listeners a break from the drumbeat of wars, politics, and job |
| 0:48.2 | numbers. |
| 0:49.2 | Now, no offense to John Mayer, but not every NPR listener is a fan. |
| 1:01.7 | And frankly, that's going to be true of any musician we talk to. |
| 1:04.4 | So I wondered if we could create a Thanksgiving Day music segment that didn't spend half an |
| 1:10.4 | hour with just one artist. |
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