You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.

On September 5th, I'm going to be doing a special live Song Exploder event in Los Angeles with Boni Vair.

Justin Vernon and producer Jimmy Stack are going to be joining me on stage to tell the story behind one of the songs from the new Bonie Verre album, Sable Fable. So if you've ever wondered what a full, unedited Song Exploder conversation is like, this is your chance to be in the room. This is going to be a live event only. It's not going to be live streamed or repeated on any other night, so I hope you can make it. It's going to be at the beautiful Palace Theater in downtown L.A.

You can get tickets to this special Song Exploder Live event with Bonnie Vair at

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Again, it's on Friday, September 5th in downtown L.A.

And you can get tickets at Song songexploder.net slash live.

Sam Fender is a singer and songwriter from the town of North Shields in England.

He won the Brit Award for Best Rock and Alternative Act twice.

His most recent album is called People Watching,

and just like his first two albums,

it went to number one on the UK album charts.

To help produce the album, Sam enlisted Adam Grandesiel,

the singer and frontman of the Grammy-winning band The War on Drugs.

For this episode, I talked to Sam and his bandmate Joe Atkinson

about the title track from People Watching, and the long journey that it took to get made, from Sam's Kitchen to the Hollywood Hills to Abbey Road.

Our people watch all the way back home, everybody on the treadmill run, right on the billboards are in the heat.

Somebody's darling on the street tonight.

Oh, I can't stop running.

I see the whole down fire.

I think the world's going to be back home.

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