What’s Making Me Happy This Week IIISpraynard live on NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse ThornI’m at a weird point in my life where I fall for punk bands recommended on NPR shows.Spraynard play the kind of emotional pop punk that will forever have a special place in my heart and mind. Brilliant. Check out their great album …
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Jesse Thorn’s interview with Mavis Staples on Bullseye is a treat. In a stunning conversation, Staples talks about her life and work, from growing up singing gospel in churches with her family as the Staple Singers, traveling through the Jim Crow South, meeting Martin Luther King and getting involved in the movement, finding secular success …
It’s kind of like storytelling s & m – sort of an alternate world in which Martin’s punches land, and they land hard enough that we feel them, but not so hard that we have to use our safe word. Once we heal, we might want to come back for another session. Jesse Thorn on …
CLARITY AND CHAOS 