Hey, I'm Nora Jones, and today I'm playing along with Rufus Wainwright.

I'm just playing along with you.

I'm just playing along with you.

Hey there, I'm Nora.

With me, as usual, is Sarah Oda. Hi. Hello. Welcome to the show, everybody. Oh, welcome to, actually, I'm going to tell you guys a little secret. This is my first time seeing Sarah, and she's on a face time because she just had a baby I did I have

become two people congratulations thank you so much she's got her little baby right there next to

her this this could go terribly wrong at any moment but for right now okay so we should get to

the intro let's get to the intro right Let's get to the intro. For right now,

she's snoozing. But I did just want to say, we've been doing this podcast for over a year now,

and we are just so thankful to our listeners for tuning in every time, subscribing and liking

us. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yes. Thank you so much. It's been so nice to feel like people are listening. And we also have gotten so many great guest ideas from all of you. So thank you for that as well. And we are working on it. So stay tuned. Follow us on social so you never miss a new episode. And Graziez, Arrigato. Do it for the baby.

Grazie. Okay, our guest today is the wonderfully poignant and evocative vocalist,

songwriter, piano and guitar player, composer, and just incredibly charismatic person to be around, Ruthus Wainwright.

Yes, he's one of a kind.

He really is.

I've known him a long time, and it was such a pleasure to get together and sing, sing some

songs.

His career spans over several studio albums, soundtracks to film and TV, classical operas, a musical,

and not to mention the annual holiday concerts, which he produces with his sister Martha Wainwright,

called A Not So Silent Night, which you, Nora, are joining in on this year in New York.

Yep, I am. It's going to be fun.

And he's also celebrating the 20th anniversaries of his 2003 and 2004 albums, Want One and Want

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