Popcast: “Tomatoes” Giving Country Its Bite

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jon Caramanica and Ben Ratliff discuss the women of country music.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, The Tomato in your Musical Critical
0:05.8	salad. I'm Ben Ratliff, your host. Man, you're not a lot short.
0:09.2	Maybe your jacket is a hand-me-down. Maybe you slept with half of your hometown. In a world of squares
0:19.0	maybe you're just round you can't be.
0:26.0	Everybody's cup of the tea.
0:31.0	Some like the bitter song is sweet. Nobody's everybody's favorite so you might as well just make it how you
0:37.0	you're listening to Casey Musgrave's cup of tea.
0:42.0	John Caramonica triangulate us.
0:45.0	Keith Hill, Casey Musgraves and us here right now in the studio.
0:50.0	I'm hoping that they're in like some elaborate email conversation Keith Hill and
0:53.9	Casey Musker's right now. Who is Keith Hill? You believe in data Ben Ratliff?
1:00.7	Believe in big data. The biggest?
1:03.2	I believe in the biggest data.
1:06.0	Keith Hill's got data for you.
1:07.6	Really?
1:08.6	Oh, does he?
1:09.6	Let's talk about Keith Hill.
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	Keith Hill is a country radio consultant not not necessarily a guy who was in
1:16.7	house at a station but a guy who is spending his professional time thinking about
1:22.1	what works on country radio.
1:23.7	Sure, I've met those types.
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