Tig Notaro’s case for Nickelback, Ranky Tanky live, and Jamie Barton’s bisexual spin on classical music

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ranky Tanky performs live in our studio, and explains to Kurt Andersen how their music is rooted in the regional Gullah culture — descendants of West African slaves who lived on isolated islands along the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas. For our Guilty Pleasures series, comic Tig Notaro says why she loves the widely loathed band Nickelback, especially their song “Photograph.” And mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, a rising star of the opera world, performs love songs directed at women that were meant to be sung by men, and tells Slate’s June Thomas how a sense of bisexual pride drives such performances.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.1	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.3	you have to remember that in the beginning of all of this,
0:11.5	there was no bass, there was no guitar.
0:14.1	The old, old-time Gullah music traditions
0:16.7	that inspired the band Ranky Tinky.
0:19.1	You basically just had people that were singing,
0:21.8	they were clapping their hands,
0:22.8	and they were stomping their feet on wooden floors.
0:25.3	That's the heartbeat of it all, that distinctive gullar rhythm.
0:28.9	Ranky Tinky plays live right here.
0:32.6	Plus...
0:33.2	You don't have to be a dude to get drunk.
0:39.7	The opera singer Jamie Barton explains why she performs rowdy and romantic songs that were written for men.
0:46.0	You don't have to be a dude to be hitting on someone and to have delusions,
0:51.5	to have a rough evening with some alcohol.
0:55.0	That's ahead on Studio 360, right after this.
0:58.0	This is Studio 360. I'm Korniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.2	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden. I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
1:18.1	Very well done.
1:19.3	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
1:23.6	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
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