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It's all songs considered from NPR Music. I'm Robin Hilton.

You know, we're always on the the show we're always looking for the kind of music that moves you like no other the songs that you obsess over or you ugly cry to you, or the you just can't stop listening to.

So towards the end of last year, we asked listeners to tell us about that one song, that one

song that hits them hard like this. I'm here with

NPR Musics, Mitra Arthur. Hey Mitra. Hey, how you doing? Mitra, you're a video

producer with NPR Music and Jazz Night in America and you are the one who got

me thinking about this because the impure music team we all got together you know to

talk about our favorite music of the year and you know what should be on our year

in lists and everything and you told us about an experience that you had with one

song in particular what was it? The song was Wait till I Get Over by Duran Jones and it's from his album that came out

this year of the same name.

Well when you talked about it I was so moved by how moved you were by the piece. We decided to do a whole show about songs that hit us hard this year.

We did a call out to listeners asking them to tell us their own picks and stories. We got thousands of submissions.

We're going to share some of those on this episode of All Songs Considered. The songs that hit

hard in 2023, but I definitely want to start with yours.

Yeah, the song, it hit me because it reminded me of both of my grandmothers who are no longer on this earthly plane. it reminded me very much of the old country churches that

they went to and that were hardwood floors and that's where you got your percussion from everyone

clapping and stomping and singing singers singing in the round and that's really what

he does in it and it talks about seeing his mother seeing his father

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