Traveling Creatures: live music from the series

Dolly Parton's America

WNYC Studios & OSM Audio

Music History, Nashville, Music, Tennessee, Society & Culture, Parton, Documentary, America, Dolly

4.6 • 17.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this second bonus music episode, we play two live songs we recorded, sung by bluegrass musicians Nora Brown and Amythyst Kiah. You can find Nora on facebook @norabrownbanjo, instagram @little.nb, and her music at jalopyrecords.org and on Spotify. Amythyst is on facebook, instagram, and twitter at @amythystkiah, and her music can be found at amythystkiah.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, how are your hands?
0:01.7	They're a little cold, but I can out-stop.
0:05.5	Okay, everybody, it's Chad, Dolly Parton's America.
0:09.1	We are currently editing the final episode of the series that will drop a week from today.
0:14.0	In the meantime, I want to wish you all a very happy holidays.
0:18.7	And as a holiday offering, in a token of our appreciation for listening to the series,
0:23.6	spreading the word, I want to share with you a little more music that we gathered along the way.
0:30.8	I mean, we were super lucky on this project.
0:33.6	We got to work with some incredible musicians who performed some Dolly songs for us shared
0:38.1	with us some of their own work.
0:39.7	In this bonus EP, you're going to hear two different performers,
0:42.8	singer-songwriters, starting with the musician Nora Brown.
0:45.6	This is... it's a Fred Los Banjos.
0:53.3	Nora is a very wise, very old soul who is actually only 14 years old.
0:59.3	Already well-established in the old-time music scene,
1:01.6	already has an album. We'll link to it from our website.
1:03.9	We recorded her at this beautiful church in Brooklyn called St. Augustine Church.
1:08.4	Really big domed ceilings.
1:10.8	And we sat sort of right in front of the altar.
1:14.3	And she got out of her banjo and played us a song.
1:17.6	How did she even learn to play this?
1:21.0	I started with a man named Shlomo Pesco.
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