The Song Inside

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44. Leah Paul is a Sweet Potato! Mar 28, 2022

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Leah Paul is a sweet potato who runs a music business for kids called Sweet Potato Music! She also lives in LA, is a mom, plays the flute, and writes the coolest chamber pop tunes you've ever heard. We talk about pivoting after motherhood, treating vocals like flutes, finding home, and not waiting for happiness.

Songs:

Warm Streets

Thin Skinned

We Will Do The Worrying

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43. Luciana Souza is a Poet! Mar 21, 2022

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Brazilian composer, singer, lyricist and percussionist Luciana Souza is a light in the darkness. In this conversation, we revisit our younger selves, call our friend (and Sunnyside producer) Francois live with a birthday message, reminisce about Cornelia Street Cafe, and explore the freedom of harmony and the gestures of melody.

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Songs:

Sonnet

Sleeping Ground

These Things

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42. Lucy Wainwright Roche is Hopelessly Herself! Mar 14, 2022

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Singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche comes from a musical family. She also has a very amenable dog, and a voice like a damn angel. Join us as we talk about going to Wikipedia for song ideas, the dark tundra of not writing, how a song can be anything, and how life on the road is definitely funnier with a companion!

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Songs:

Ohio is for Lovers

Canterbury Song

A Quiet Line

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41. Lara Bello is the Soul Inside the Gold! Mar 07, 2022

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Happy International Women's Month from The Song Inside! To kick things off, Spanish songstress Lara Bello (a fellow Carnegie Hall Lullaby Artist), joins me to explore the feelings inside the melody, the importance of introducing new cultures and languages to audiences, how to open our arms to new fruit, and just what the heck the meaning of Sikame is.

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Songs:

Sola

Sikame

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40. Django Haskins is Shutting Up and Playing! Feb 28, 2022

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Django Haskins calls in from his North Carolina cabin to talk about the discipline of Monday Night Song Group, musical and narrative dissonance, why proficiency shouldn't get in the way of being authentic, and the importance of lifting others up.

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Songs

state road valentine

Cutting Onions

Til My Voice is Gone

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39. Brittany Anjou is Ripping Off the Band-Aid! Feb 21, 2022

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Pianist/Composer Brittany Anjou recently completed a Masters in Music Psychology and has done research on the mental health of musicians living in NYC. Join us for an intellectually stimulating conversation! Brittany tells me about hosting avant-garde jams in Kuwait before we move on to discuss jazz as a democratic art form, embracing opportunities to fail, and the eternal conflict between teaching and playing.

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Songs:

Starlight

No Tyrant

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38. Ohad Talmor is Brushing His Teeth! Feb 14, 2022

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What do Tribe Called Quest and the Love Boat have in common? What did Stravinsky say to do daily, as if brushing one's teeth? Find out in this interview with master composer and saxophonist Ohad Talmor! We talk about his lifelong relationship with Lee Konitz, the importance of buying the scores, the purpose of etudes, and the responsibility of artists.

Songs

Flight to Missoula

Etude #2

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37. Robin Meloy Goldsby is Piano Girl! Feb 07, 2022

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If you were in a Manhattan hotel 25 years ago, or a German castle recently, you may have heard Robin Meloy Goldsby tinkling the ivories, and not even known it. Her latest book, Piano Girl Playbook: Notes on a Musical Life, captures what it's like to play for all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and still find music at the heart of things. We talk about her storied life (played at Buckingham Palace? Check! Played for naked folks while wearing a concert gown? Done that!), the intentions of the composer, Mr. Rogers, and putting the work in.

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Songs

Flying, Falling

December

Neighbor

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Swimming Through the Aisles

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36. Rich Bennett is Roman Angelos! Jan 31, 2022

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Is Rich Bennett a producer, guitarist, composer, and music studio/school owner? Yes. Is he also Roman Angelos? YES. He makes music for underwater supermarkets, is a coffee and seltzer enthusiast, and enjoys the shifting of phrases and the art of the long fade.

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Songs:

Shocked in Sciacca

Wild Ride

Night Part 1

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