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This week on Art of the Song we visit with Bryan Ferry. Best known for his work in the 70s and 80s with Roxy Music, Bryan is one of the most innovative and iconic voices in popular music. Born in Washington, County Durham, Bryan Ferry would show exceptional promise as both a creative writer and as an actor during his school years. But his principal passions were music and fine art, and he finally opted to study Fine Art at the University of Newcastle. There he studied with the founder of British Pop Art, Richard Hamilton, whose influence and inspiration would become an important piece of Bryan?s artistic vision. He would later say that his earliest writings and recordings with Roxy Music were a direct attempt to combine his love of music with the creative possibilities and ideas that he had learned from fine art. We spoke with Bryan about the release of his CD The Jazz Age, a collection of his tunes re-imagined in a1920s jazz style
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Come meet us at the club as we jump into two distinct American musics: go-go and zydeco. From the Nation's Capital, we'll visit with the “Godfather of Go-Go,” funk and jazz guitarist Chuck Brown, who'll explain the finer points of jamming and showing the audience some love. Then we're back in Louisiana getting down to the Creole sounds of zydeco with the Creole cowboy Jeffery Broussard, whose fiddle and accordion playing brings the music back its source. The son of the late accordion legend Delton Broussard, Jeffery knows the deep roots of d'vrais zarico (real zydeco), but also the appeal of tradition in a modern sound.
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John Rosenthal, co-founder of Stop Handgun Violence is interviewed by host Mo Cunningham
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the Steve Miller Band perform some classic hits in a 2011 vintage World Cafe episode
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the new album and acclaimed play, My Mother Has Four Noses, reflects Jonatha Brooke's experience caring for her ill mother in her final years
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Nicole Atkins returns with another eclectic and catchy disc, her third, Slow Phaser
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best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Benmont Tench has released his debut solo album, You Should Be So Lucky, in the 37th year of his career
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E-Town returns to the historic Boulder Theater to welcome back long-time friend of the show, singer/songwriter/guitar virtuoso Robert Cray. Cray?s love for soul and blues music began at an early age, and you can hear it in his sound. Also with us is New Orleans rocker Anders Osborne. New Orleans? OffBeat magazine named Osborne the Crescent City?s Best Guitarist two years running, and also awarded him with the Best Roots Rock Artist title
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Townes Van Zandt, Arthur Lee and David Gilmour's birth dates will be acknowledged, as well as Tom Rapp, Randy Meisner and Micky Dolenz
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Susan Werner, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion and Mandolin Orange also perform
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