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This Song: Beth Ditto (Rerun) Apr 30, 2020

In this rerun from 2018, Beth Ditto, former lead singer of the band Gossip, talks about how Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” helped her grapple with complex feelings about her home state, Arkansas. She also talks about returning home after heartbreak and explores making her first record “Fake Sugar.”

Every Thursday at 7pm CT, KUTX hosts a weekly Netflix Party featuring a different music documentary. Check it out here. Last week’s movie was What Happened, Miss Simone? and inspired the re-run of this episode discussing Simone’s music and its lasting resonance. Starting this week they’ll be watching the documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution.

This is the last episode of This Song for a while. In the meantime, check out our hip-hop podcast The Breaks and the Song Confessional podcast.

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This Song: Liz Phair (Rerun) Apr 16, 2020

In this rerun from 2018, Liz Phair describes how the 1980s rock song “I Wanna Destroy You” by The Soft Boys put her in touch with her youthful desire to destroy something. We also hear Phair share what it was like to revisit her early 90’s songs on the recent Girly-Sound to Guyville tour. Plus, she shares a bit of parenting wisdom with host Elizabeth McQueen.

Phair has a new record, Soberish, coming out this summer.

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This Song: John Prine (Rerun) Apr 02, 2020

Beloved American singer-songwriter John Prine is on many people’s minds right now. He is currently in stable condition on a ventilator due to symptoms from COVID-19. Our hearts go out to him and his family. This episode, recorded live in 2018 at Waterloo records, is a testament to Prine’s creativity, kindness and generosity of spirit. In it, he explains how Bob Dylan’s “The Lonsesome Death of Hattie Carroll” changed his life and goes in-depth on his own songwriting process for his album “The Tree of Forgiveness.

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This Song: Thao and The Get Down Stay Down Mar 26, 2020

On March 10th, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down released a new single called, “Temple” along with an accompanying video. 6 days later residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, where lead singer, songwriter and guitar player Thao Nguyen lives, were ordered to shelter in place. In this episode, Thao talks to host Elizabeth McQueen about the inspiration behind the new song and what it was like to release music during a pandemic. She also shares how making her upcoming record, also called Temple, helped prepare her to address her sexuality publicly and to create a safe space in her life where she could exist as her full self.

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This Song: Kathy Valentine Mar 19, 2020

Kathy Valentine, bass player in the seminal 80s all-girl rock group the Go-Go’s, recently wrote a memoir titled All I Ever Wanted. In the book, Valentine explores her unconventional childhood, her time with the Go-Go’s, and her journey to sobriety. In this episode of, Kathy explains what “Sunshine of Your Love” by Cream taught her about herself when she was 9 years old, describes how she found her creative process as an author and details how music and storytelling intersected in her new book.

Kathy Valentine’s April Book Tour dates are currently being rescheduled, but you can buy a signed copy from one of the bookstores where she was scheduled to appear. Find out where to buy your copy of All I Ever Wanted

Kathy also wrote a soundtrack to accompany her book. Check out the soundtrack to All I Ever Wanted on Bandcamp.

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This Song: St. Vincent (Rerun) Mar 02, 2020

In this episode, St. Vincent explores how music from early Disney films helped her lay the foundation for beauty and wonder in her own life and work.

“All that stuff, it’s your first introduction to magic…You know I think like, every kid wishes they could be in a cartoon. Like you wish so deeply that your reality could transmutate into that world, and music is the closest you get to come to it.”

She also explains why she approached the songs on Masseduction with a Disney-esque lack of irony.

“That was just sort of a tenet from the beginning…I just felt like OK, what’s the thing that I haven’t done, and I was like I don’t feel like I’ve gone straight for the heart and the jugular.”

St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein have a new film coming out called The Nowhere Inn, which will be showing at the SXSW 2020 Film Festival

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This Song: Metric Mar 02, 2020

Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw from Metric talk about hearing “Teardrop” by Massive Attack early in their musical partnership and how it inspired them, terrified them and helped them find a collaborative way of making music that still works for them today.

“I remember listening to that song…and just feeling like..it was sort of a mix between feeling like anything was now sonically possible, and that I would never achieve anything. Because I felt like it had gone to the heights and depths of what I hadn’t known existed, which is an enlightening and somehow taking wind out of sails moment at the same time.” — Jimmy Shaw, Metric

📸 Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon

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This Song: Jackie Venson (Rerun) Mar 02, 2020

In this rerun of an episode originally recorded last February, Jackie Venson explains how seeing “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” from the movie “Evita,” changed the way she listened to music and the way she saw herself. Then she describes her journey from classical pianist to blues guitarist. It’s a tale of soul expanding love, self crushing doubt, and musical perseverance.

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Venson will be co-hosting the Austin Music Awards on March 11th at ACLive at Moody Theater. Get your tickets here.

📸 Tristan Ipock

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This Song: Introducing The Song Confessional Podcast! Dec 12, 2019

This week we have a special treat for you! A full episode of the new Song Confessional Podcast! The Song Confessional project began when Austin artists Walker Lukens and Zac Cantanzaro outfitted a trailer like a Catholic confessional and asked people to come in, and tell anonymous “confessions.” Then they took their favorite stories and gave them to musicians, who wrote and recorded songs based on the tales. In the podcast you hear it all, the confessional, the song, and an interview with the songwriter.

In this episode you’ll hear a tale of family, weed and secrets, the song it inspired written by Brooklyn based Vlad Holiday, and an interview with Holiday about his boozy creative process.

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This Song: Allison Moorer Interview and Book Signing at Waterloo Records Dec 04, 2019

Come to Waterloo Records Thursday, November 21st at 4pm for a live taping of the This Song podcast! Singer, songwriter and author Allison Moorer will join host Elizabeth McQueen onstage to talk about a song that changed her life and about her new book and companion album, Blood. The event is FREE and open to the public. Find more info here!

Allison Moorer plays the Cactus Cafe Thursday night at 8pm. Get your tickets here.

More info about Blood — On October 25th, acclaimed singer/songwriter Allison Moorer will release Blood(Autotelic Records / Thirty Tigers) the first solo album in four years from the Academy, Grammy, Americana and Academy of Country Music award nominated artist. Blood is not only Moorer’s most personal and revealing work to date, but also her finest and most important. Blood stands on its own as a complete work, but the album serves as a companion piece to her anticipated autobiography, Blood: A Memoir, being released on October 29th through Da Capo Press, an imprint of Hachette Books. Blood: A Memoir is a detailed account of Moorer and her sister’s (Grammy Award winner Shelby Lynne) childhood growing up in a troubled home in Southern Alabama, which ended with the well-documented murder-suicide of her parents in 1986. Much of what the public has known about the tragic event begins and ends there. For years Moorer had avoided going into the traumatic details of the abuse, alcoholism, intimidation, poverty and neglect, that existed prior to the deaths, and for good reasons which she addresses in the memoir. Moorer also addresses the fact that there was so much more to her family than tragedy, darkness and what people thought they knew. There was love, there was a protective mother, there was the bond of sisterhood and there was music. There was always music. The album Blood serves as a song cycle featuring ten tracks that directly connect to the people, emotions, trauma, and state of mind that are all detailed so eloquently in the memoir.

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This Song: Devendra Banhart Nov 21, 2019

Devendra Bahnart talks about how hearing “Just Another Diamond Day” by Vashti Bunyan while busking on the streets of Paris comforted him with a feeling of motherly love that he still turns to today. He also explains how themes of motherhood, love, fear and compassion show up on his latest record “Ma.”

“It’s like once you’re heartbroken, it’s not like ‘That’s it, never gonna be heartbroken again.’ Once you’re not lonely it’s not like ‘That’s it, okay I did it.’ Once you go through a day without making mistakes it’s not like ‘That’s it, end of mistakes.’ It’s this constant thing. I am constantly heartbroken and constantly anxious and lonely and so I have this thing, called art. It’s very beautiful. You have this immediately accessible comfort. This immediately accessible love.”

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This Song: King Princess Nov 14, 2019

In this episode, Mikaela Mullaney Straus aka King Princess describes how listening to “Cosmic Dancer” by T. Rex as a kid made her feel seen. And she explores how anthemic rock bands, along with artists like Prince and Tina Turner helped her understand her gender and showed her how music could transport the listener to another place and time.

“It’s about throwing people into a world. It’s about putting people into something that’s like completely separate from reality.”

📸 Greg Noire

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This Song: Matt and Kim Nov 07, 2019

Indie electronic duo Matt and Kim talk about how “The Mullet Burden” by The Dillinger Escape Plan showed them how intense music could be.

Matt: “I did not even realize that music could be as extreme as that was. Like if I thought that music could be turned up to 10 , it was like, oh wait, you could actually turn up to 12 — there’s like 2 more notches on this thing that I didn’t even know existed.”

The couple also explores how they’ve tried to bring that same kind of intensity to their music, especially their live shows, the toll that intensity has taken on their bodies and what they see as the next phase in their musical lives.

📸: Caleb Kuhl

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This Song: La Marisoul from La Santa Cecilia Oct 31, 2019

La Marisoul, lead singer and songwriter for the band La Santa Cecilia explains how Mercedes Sosa’s version of “Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón” by Fito Páez helped her understand what a powerful tool music could be for connection and healing.

“I can feel myself connected to the earth when I hear her. I feel relieved. I feel like I’m being held by a motherly force…holding me in melody and words that I need.”

This sentiment is reflected in La Santa Cecilia’s latest, self titled release. The record was written during a year when 3 of the 4 band members lost their fathers and finds the group reflecting on family, love, and loss and connection.

📸 Humberto Howard

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This Song: Shura Oct 24, 2019

Shura is a British singer, songwriter and producer who’s latest record Forevher documents her experience of falling in love with the woman who is now her girlfriend. On this episode, she sat down with host Elizabeth McQueen on the Bonus Tracks stage at the Austin City Limits Festival to explain why “Only Shallow” by My Bloody Valentine terrified her and intrigued her. They also talk about how she went from a teenage musician who was, in the words of her father “allergic to the idea of a chorus” to a writer who excels in writing catchy pop choruses. Shura also explains what it’s like to write an entire album of love songs and why she felt like now was the right time to use female-gendered pronouns in her work.

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Check out Shura’s stripped down version of “Religion (u can lay your hands on me)” recorded backstage at the Austin City Limits Musical Festival

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Introducing The Breaks! Oct 22, 2019

This Song host Elizabeth McQueen has been helping produce a new podcast called The Breaks. Every Saturday from 10pm-1am, Confucius and Fresh host a hip-hop show on KUTX called The Breaks. And now every Monday at 2pm the world can hear highlights from their wide ranging conversations about all things hip-hop, Austin’s hip-hop and R&B scenes and their lived experiences in the Live Music Capital of the World on The Breaks podcast.

In this episode of The Breaks, Confucius and Fresh discuss Joe Budden’s beef with Charlamange tha God. From there they call out Austin organizations promoting diversity without including people of color in decision making. Local Austin artist CP Loony stops by for an interview. We hear why Fresh thinks Iggy Azalea is not, in fact, the biggest taint on T.I.’s legacy as part of his Unpopular Opinion, and Confucius encourages everyone to lean into their strengths on Confucius Says.

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This Song: FINNEAS Oct 17, 2019

Singer, songwriter and producer Finneas O’Connell not only writes and produces music with his sister Billie Eilish, but also makes his own music under the name FINNEAS. He just released a solo EP called Blood Harmony. Listen as he explains why he loved “Holy S**t” by Father John Misty from the moment he heard it and how the song helped understand that when it comes to songwriting, nothing has to be off the table.

“My general rule with songs — it’s the rule I follow with Billie, it’s the rule I follow with every other artist I collaborate with — is like, write about the stuff that you’re uncomfortable writing about, write songs that you’d be scared to put out, because you wouldn’t want the person who it’s about to hear it…and then put it the f*ck out.”

📸 Michael Minasi

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Billie Elilish talked to NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson at ACLfest. Listen to that interview here

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This Song: Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney Oct 10, 2019

Sleater-Kinney’s 9th album “The Center Won’t Hold” came out in August. The album, which was produced by St. Vincent, finds the band exploring lots of new sonic territory. Listen as Carrie Brownstein explains how “Stay” by Rihanna inspired her to write the last track on the new record,”Broken.” Plus, you can hear why she doesn’t think of this album as a sonic departure for the band, but instead sees it as a product of the band’s expanded musical vocabulary.

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This Song: Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend Aug 29, 2019

Ezra Koenig, lead singer and songwriter for the band Vampire Weekend, explains why he recently became obsessed with “I Don’t Think Much About Her No More” by country singer and songwriter Mickey Newbury. He loved it so much that he even included a cover of the song as a bonus track for the Japanese release of the band’s latest record Father of the Bride. Listen as he describes why he finds that song so compelling and explores what it was like to apply country music’s direct approach to songwriting to some of the the songs on Father of the Bride.

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📸 Monika Mogi

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Black Pumas’ Eric Burton on “(Sittin’ On)The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding Jun 18, 2019

Black Pumas, the new musical project by California native Eric Burton and Grammy Award winning producer and guitarist Adrian Quesada has been taking the Austin music scene by storm- even winning Best New Austin Band and Best New Song for “Black Moon Rising” at the 2019 Austin Music Awards, all before they’ve even released their debut album.

On this episode of This Song, Eric Burton, the lead singer of Black Pumas, talks about what he learned about honesty and connection from Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” and how he went from busking on the Santa Monica Pier to fronting a band in Austin, Texas. His generosity and gratefulness for the art he creates are palpable in this interview, which was recorded live in front of an audience of aspiring teenage podcasters at the 2019 ISAS Arts Festival.

Stream the Black Pumas debut record right now at Relix.

Black Pumas debut album comes out this Friday 6/21 on ATO Records and you can catch their release show at Antone’s the same night.

-KUTX Intern, Claire Hardwick

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📸 Gabriel C. Pérez

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This Song: Tiarra Girls on “Just a Girl” by No Doubt Jun 12, 2019

Austin based sisters Tori, Tiffany and Sofia Baltierra have been playing as the Tiarra Girls since they were in elementary and middle school. Listen as they describe how seeing the video for No Doubt’s “Just a Girl” influenced them all stylistically and helped them find their voices as young women in music. They also tell the story of the genesis of their song “Leave it to the People” and trace how that song’s release has helped them see their music as a way to empower their community and advocate for the change they want to see in the world.

Tiarra Girls will be playing Chingona Fest on June 22nd at Hops and Grains Brewing along with Tribes and Bidi Bidi Banda. Get Tickets to Chingona Fest here.

📸 Juan Figueroa for KUTX

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This Song: Rhett Miller (rerun) Jun 05, 2019

Musician, writer, and frontman for Old 97’s Rhett Miller launched his own podcast “Wheel’s Off With Rhett Miller” earlier this year. In it, he talks to artists about what it’s really like to live a creative life.

In this 2017 episode, he describes how hearing the Jewish Lesbian Folk singer Phranc perform ‘The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” changed his life and showed him the power of musical connection.

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This Song: Strand of Oaks on “Lazarus” by David Bowie Jun 05, 2019

“This is the sound that quasars make when they’re being born or the resonant frequency of the big bang.”

Timothy Showalter, who leads the folk-rock band Strand of Oaks, chronicles his journey through depression on the band’s new record, Eraserland. Listen as he describes how hearing David Bowie’s “Lazarus” at the end of the recording process helped him see how powerful documenting dark times could be. Then hear how the process of making Eraserland helped bring Showalter to the other side of his own dark times. “(The record) exists in this wonderful place where it did start in a pretty dark place personally, but where it ended up turned out to be the brightest most love filled moment.”

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This Song: The Bishops on “Soundtrack to My Life” by Kid Cudi May 29, 2019

Our May Artist of the Month- The Bishops explain that hearing “Soundtrack to My Life” by Kid Cudi for the first time as middle schoolers changed what they thought hip-hop music could be. Kid Cudi spends the song highlighting his negative mental health, an idea that Cara and Troy Bishop hadn’t heard before in the artists they were listening to at the time like Lil’ Wayne and 50 Cent. It led them to write songs that have an emphasis on being lyrically vulnerable, a mission that they hope to continue with each new release. Explains Cara “I’ll always want to be vulnerable in songs because I know other people are too and the fact that they are means we can connect to each other.”

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This Song: Thea Wood on “Bad Reputation” by Joan Jett May 22, 2019

Writer and entrepreneur Thea Wood describes how hearing Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” while watching the documentary of the same name reignited her passion for music and inspired her to make a huge change in her life. Listen as she explains how that experience led her to create the “Backstage Chats With Women in Music” podcast as well as the the Backstage Chats Foundation which seeks to “eliminate gender disparity in modern music by amplifying the voices of women in music and accelerating their careers through grants and scholarships.”

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This Song: The Teeta on “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen May 08, 2019

Austin rapper The Teeta breaks down all the reasons he loves “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen and how it influenced the direction he took on “Rain” from his latest record Teeta World.

The Teeta will join Confucius and Fresh, hosts of our hip-hop show The Breaks for “The Breaks Live: Graduation Edition” this Friday, May 10th at Empire Control Room along with Grizz, DJ Manny Mo, and Dj Yupthtsher.

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This Song: Pocket Sounds May 01, 2019

Austin’s Pocket Sounds is the solo project of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Mike St Clair. Listen as he describes how hearing Dionne Warwick’s version of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” at a kiddie pool party inspired him to meld the classical, jazz, pop and rock parts of himself, and influenced his new song “Radio Song.”

Pocket Sounds will be celebrating the release of a cassette single containing radio song at the Mohawk this Saturday May 4th at Mohawk.

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This Song: Citizen Cope Apr 26, 2019

Clarence Greenwood is Citizen Cope, an American singer-songwriter who has been making entrancing blends of rock and soul music since the early 2000’s.

In this episode Citizen Cope details how his emotional connections to legends such as Randy Newman and Trouble Funk aided his understanding of the powerful energy that music can have. Cope then goes on to discusses how his experiences of the last seven years — which include reconciling with his estranged father and becoming a parent himself — led him to the songs on his latest record “Heroin and Helicopters.”

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This Song: GRiZ on Disney’s “Fantasia” Apr 24, 2019

Grant Richard Kwiecinski, who goes by GRiZ, is a producer and multi-instrumentalist who combines electronic music with funk and soul to create a sound that is as uplifting as it is danceable.

Listen as GRiZ describes how seeing Disney’s “Fanstasia”as a child helped him understand that music could take the listener on an emotional journey and how that experience ultimately led to his interest in making music on the computer. Then listen as he explains why he wanted to explore his own complex emotional journey on his latest record “Ride Waves.”

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This Song: Ian Graham from The Well on “Ocean Size” by Jane’s Addiction Apr 17, 2019

Ian Graham, guitarist, songwriter and singer for the Austin psych metal band The Well, describes how hearing “Ocean Size” by Jane’s Addiction when he was a kid showed him how powerfully music could convey a feeling by transporting him “to somebody else’s movie.” He describes how poetry, songwriting and playing music as a teenager helped him feel less alone in the world and saved his life and explores what he loves about the metal he makes in The Well.

The Well is KUTX’s Artis of the month!

The Well’s new album Death and Consolation out next week!

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This Song: Cautious Clay On “B.O.B” by Outkast Apr 10, 2019

When Cautious Clay saw the video for Outkast’s “B.O.B” for the first time, the combination of the duo’s rapid fire rap style, techno influenced production and hyper-saturated psychedelic visuals blew his 7-year-old mind. On this episode, he tells us how that experience continues to have a profound impact on his own work, especially on his new project “Table of Context.” Plus, he explores how Outkast, along with his beat-boxing flute teacher, taught him to approach creativity without boundaries.

Cautious Clay just released a new EP called Table of Context

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This Song: Patty Griffin on “Secret World” by Peter Gabriel Apr 03, 2019

Patty Griffin’s latest record “Patty Griffin” is a gorgeous acoustic exercise in vulnerability. The album was borne out of a period in her life where she stepped back from music to undergo treatment for breast cancer.

Listen as she explores all the ways that Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World,” from his epic breakup record up US, impacted her life and her songwriting. Griffin also explores how her friendship with George Reif inspired the song “Luminous Places,” and how important it is for her to allow herself to be vulnerable in her work.

“That’s what I would always like to try to arrive at. Something that’s deeply true and that I learn from. Then I’ve really got something to give”

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This Song: Jenny Lewis on “Govinda Jai Jai” by Alice Coltrane Mar 29, 2019

“Music is energy and music can be healing…music has so many different purposes, but at this stage in my life I’m looking for something that’s a little bit nourishing or just like a slight clue to the universe.” — Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis’ 4th record On the Line is a collection of songs that tackle love, lust, relationships and death. Lewis recorded the album in Capitol Records Studio B with a band of legendary instrumentalists — Benmont Tench on keys, Don Was on bass, and Jim Keltner on drums with contributions by Ringo Starr and Beck.

In this episode Jenny Lewis describes the effect that hearing “Govinda Jai Jai” by Alice Coltrane while on a road trip across California with Jim James and Gary Burden had on her spirit and on her approach to her new record.

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This Song: Warren Hood on “High Hill” by Uncle Walt’s Band Mar 27, 2019

In the early 70’s Uncle Walt’s Band, the acoustic trio made up of Champ Hood, Walter Hyatt and David Ball came to Austin, TX from Spartanburg, SC. The band brought with them a unique acoustic sound that melded folk, jazz, blues and pop. Though the music of Uncle Walt’s Band never caught on nationally, it continues to inspire countless Texas musicians like Lyle Lovett and Shawn Colvin.

Listen as Warren Hood, Champ Hood’s son, describes how hearing the song “High Hill” gave him a deep appreciation for the music of Uncle Walt’s Band while helping him process his grief around the loss of his father.

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This Song: Amanda Palmer on Nick Cave’s “Magneto” Mar 20, 2019

Amanda Palmer’s latest release, “There Will Be No Intermission” is a collection of devastating songs that explore her experiences with death, parenthood, miscarriage, abortion and living in this current, chaotic moment.

On this special live episode, recorded at SXSW, she explores how seeing Nick Cave’s performance of “Magneto” in the documentary “On More Time With Feeling” showed her how powerful inviting an audience into deeply personal experiences could be. “The ability too walk into the dark and carefully take people with you is why we do our jobs.”

She also describes how powerful it was to see Nick Cave’s bandmates hold space for his grief in the recording studio and how liberating it has been for her own community to hold space for her during the writing, recording and release of the new record.

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This Song: Moving Panoramas Return Mar 06, 2019

Moving Panoramas have a new record out called “In Two.” Listen as vocalist and instrumentalist Cara Tillman describes the joy that Elton John’s “Burn Down the Mission” brings her, followed by guitarist Rosie Castoe who explores her life long love of Peter Gabriel’s “Steam.” And lead singer and songwriter Leslie Sisson explains why “Some Song” by Elliot Smith made her feel less alone, and all the “happy accidents” that led to the band’s latest sound.

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Moving Panoramas is KUTX’s Artist of the Month for March.

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This Song: Allison Moorer Mar 02, 2019

Allison Moorer just released a new book and record, both titled “Blood.” Both works explore the legacy of her childhood in an abusive, addicted household and examine the impact that her parent’s murder suicide had on her life. In this episode, Moorer describes how “Every Breath You Take” by the Police gave her a window into an entire other world of music, and helped her define herself apart from her family.

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This Song: Meredith Goldstein Mar 02, 2019

Meredith Goldstein is host of the Love Letters podcast, the love advice columnist and entertainment writer for the Boston Globe and one of host Elizabeth McQueen’s oldest and dearest friends. In this episode she explores all the reasons she loves the sexy, pleading desperation of “Father Figure” by George Michael.

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And now, for Meredith Goldstein’s “Pleading Playlist!”

George Michael was particularly incredible at writing songs about pleading for physical (or emotional) intimacy. On some tracks, he begs for it, usually while building to a great crescendo. “Father Figure” is my favorite (for many complicated reasons discussed on the podcast), but there are others that make their way onto my playlists. These are some of my favorite songs that feature George Michael asking, begging, and pleading to get love of some kind.

I Want Your Sex (Part 2)

The first installment of this very literal (and wonderful) pop song is all about lobbying for sex. But Part 2 adds new hooks, more begging, and my favorite lines: “I’m not your brother. I’m not your father.” I mean, he’s not technically a father … just a father figure.

Fastlove

I always thought it was weird that Adele chose to cover this song to honor George Michael on the Grammys (I figured she’d opt for “One More Try,” which seems very much in her wheelhouse). But this song is quintessentially George. It’s another hit that lyrically is one big request for intimacy, although in this case it’s more about distraction. It’s not so much about fast love, but more about seeking intimacy for a break from emptiness. “In the absence of security, I made my way into the night. …So why don’t we make a little room in my BMW … searchin’ for some peace of mind.”

Fantasy

I love the lyrics: “When you know what to do, I’ll be in the next room.” What an invitation.

Freeek!

This is the most overtly sexual George Michael song there is, and in it, he’s still pleading. Aggressively. “Can I come on in, my sweet baby? Can I move on in? Can I come on in, my sweet baby? Can I move on in?” I highly recommend revisiting this music video.

A Last Request (I Want Your Sex Pt. 3)

Yes! There was a Part 3! George is shooting his shot one last time. “My cards are on your table, my dreams are in your bed. If I was able, I’d be there instead.” He ends it with a last plea: “Sleep with me tonight.”

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This Song: Jungle Feb 27, 2019

On this episode, Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, of British electronic pop outfit Jungle, tell us about the Jai Paul’s “Jasmine” and how it helped their band get comfortable with sonic experimentation. “A lot of our music is just accepting bits and pieces that happen around the creation, and ultimately letting the sounds find you.”

Hear how this openness led the duo to include a creaky door solo on their first record and how they continue to try and walk the line between originality and relatability on their latest record “For Ever.”

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**This Song: Sharon Van Etten** Jan 16, 2019
On **Sharon Van Etten’s** upcoming release *Remind Me Tomorrow*, due out January 18th, she explores themes of love, partnership, parenthood, and visions of the past through a collection of gorgeous synth-laden songs. When she sat down with *This Song*, she told us how listening to Neil Young’s “Harvest” as a kid helped her connect with her father. She also shared how her own experiences with parenthood pushed her to pursue her own music again after a long break working on other projects.

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This Song: Liz Phair Oct 03, 2018

Liz Phair describes how The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You” put her in touch with her anger and talks about what it’s been like to revisit the music she wrote for the Girly-Sound tapes and Exile in Guyville. Plus she gives host Elizabeth McQueen insight into motherhood.

Liz’s Phair’s Exile in Guyville turned 25 this year. To mark the anniversary the record has been re-released along with the early demos she made when she called herself Girly-Sound — the project is called Girly-Sound to Guyville

📸 Elizabeth Weinberg courtesy of the artist

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This Song: John Prine Live at Waterloo Records 6.4.18 Jun 04, 2018

KUTX presents John Prine “This Song” Live Interview and In-Store Appearance Monday, June 4th at 2pm.

Come celebrate the release of John Prine‘s brand new album, Tree of Forgiveness with this special event.

The interview and performance will be from 2pm-3pm. John Prine will be signing records from 3-4pm

Purchase a copy of Tree of Forgiveness on CD or LP and receive one FREE priority admission wristband for the in-store. Did you already buy the CD or LP from Waterloo Records? Cool! Just bring it by the store to get your wristband. Subject to capacity!

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ThisSong_Front[1] — **This Song Postcard** Dec 04, 2017
This Song postcards are here! Now you can download a blank postcard and make it your own by coloring in the front however you please. Then, fill out the back with a song that changed your life and pass the music on by sending your postcard to family and friends. Don’t forget to also share your This Song creation with us by sending a photo of the finished postcard to @ThisSongKUTX on Instagram and Twitter! You can download the postcard here, or find them at any KUTX Live event. Happy coloring!

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ThisSong_Back[2] — **This Song Postcard** Dec 04, 2017
This Song postcards are here! Now you can download a blank postcard and make it your own by coloring in the front however you please. Then, fill out the back with a song that changed your life and pass the music on by sending your postcard to family and friends. Don’t forget to also share your This Song creation with us by sending a photo of the finished postcard to @ThisSongKUTX on Instagram and Twitter! You can download the postcard here, or find them at any KUTX Live event. Happy coloring!

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**This Song: Brett Dennen** Jul 12, 2017
Singer-Songwriter Brett Dennen describes the first time he heard Joni Mitchell’s “All I Want,” explains how it revealed the kind of artist he would later strive to be, and describes the process he went through making his new record “Por Favor.” Then listener Joanna Castillo tells us why Kathy Mattea’s song “Where’ve You Been” always makes her want to cry.

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**This Song: Hard Proof** Jun 14, 2017
Austin’s Hardproof is extra special to us at Team This Song. Their song “Mahout” begins and ends every episode of our podcast so we consider them part of the family. They have just released their new record “Stinger” on Modern Outsider Records and when they came to KUTX to talk with Elizabeth about it, band members Joe Woullard, Stephen Bidwell and Jason Frey described the magic they found in the music Fela Kuti, Bad Brains and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings.

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**SXSW This Song Artist Spotlight** Mar 17, 2017
There are a lot of amazing things about being in the music industry here in Austin, Texas; getting to interview fantastic artists that live here and some that are just passing through is great, but seeing them all in one place for a week of music-making magic (and madness) has got to be one of the best. Here’s a list of our This Song artists that played 2017 SXSW official,so even if you can’t see them, you can hear them talk about music that changed their lives!

Benjamin Booker // SXSW

Big Thief // SXSW

Calliope Musicals // SXSW

Gary Clark Jr. // SXSW

Hard Proof // SXSW

Jane Ellen Bryant // SXSW

Kevin Morby // SXSW

Leopold and His Fiction // SXSW

Lizzo // SXSW

Misimplicity // SXSW

Mobley // SXSW

Molly Burch // SXSW

M. Ward // SXSW

The Octopus Project // SXSW

OSHUN // SXSW

Ringo Deathstarr // SXSW

San Fermin // SXSW

The Shelters // SXSW

White Denim // SXSW

*Wu-Tang Clan // SXSW (*RZA from Wu-Tang clan collaborates with Paul Banks as Banks & Steelz)

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This Song: Banks and Steelz // Lizzo Nov 16, 2016

Welcome to the first episode of This Song’s 2016 Fall Season

As we of Team This Song are recovering from the presidential election and the death’s of both Leon Russell and Leonard Cohen, we have decided to celebrate the life of Mr. Cohen with this season’s first interview. Recorded at the 2016 Austin City Limits Festival in October this conversation features Paul Banks and RZA of the collaboration known as Banks And Steelz. Both these music biz vets are huge fans of not only Cohen’s lyrics (Banks says there are none better) but also his guitar playing (RZA has sampled the late Canadian’s finger-picking) and they have both obviously bonded over the late artist’s works. We then move to rapper/singer/flutist Lizzo (also interviewed at the 2016 ACL Festival) who takes us through a myriad of influences, talks about her love of outer space and ends up describing how her adopted city has acted as a catalyst for her creation.

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This Song Season 2 Preview featuring Lizzo Nov 02, 2016

The new season of This Song starts Wednesday, November 16th and it’s going to be a good one! Tegan and Sara, Andrew Bird, Paul Banks and RZA, Nathaniel Ratliff, Andrew WK and lots of other artists will talk about the songs that changed their lives and give you insight into their artistic process. Subscribe to This Song on iTunes, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to a preview featuring Lizzo right now! You can catch up on old episodes on the KUTX website.

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**This Song: Eric Earley & Brian Koch of Blitzen Trapper** Sep 28, 2016
Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Early (pictured holding the chicken) was raised in a small, Oregon community watching no MTV and learning to play and listen to music from his father. His musical trajectory was permanently altered by R.E.M. and their breakout album “Out Of Time.” In this episode he tell Elizabeth about how Michael Stipe’s poetic lyrical approach spoke to his own circumstances and inspired his craft. Then bandmate/drummer/actor Brian Koch (pictured holding the dog) tells a tale of his family who did very little to encourage his music and how he was inspired by hidden radios, friends with guitars and a young singer-songwriter with whom he now shares a stage. It’s the most direct line of influence and inspiration of any This Song yet.

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**This Song: Thor // Misimplicity** Sep 14, 2016
We think that Thor Harris is an Austin treasure. As a musician, visual artist, wood craftsman, plummer and bon vivant, he often embodies what is great about our city. In this segment he takes Elizabeth on a brief tour of progressive rock and gives a shout out to Yes and other stalwarts of the genre. He also explains why he dislikes most classical music and what music inspired his new, hypnotic project, Thor And Friends. Then Grace London and Zoe Czarnecki from the Austin band Misimplicity describe how Elliot Smith and a bass concerto by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf have helped them find their musical ways and climb musical mountains.

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**This Song: Mike Olson of Lake Street Dive // Jane Ellen Bryant** Sep 08, 2016
It’s hard enough for a musician to live a life on the road but when there is a new love at home, things get really complicated. Lake Street Dive’s Mike Olson found that Willie Nelson and Leon Russell helped him deal with these complexities and helped his art along the way. Also, Austin newcomer Jane Ellen Bryant heard Shawn Colvin as a kid, but years later the veteran’s “I Want It Back” was, to the rookie, a perfect example of how to write, arrange and produce a song.

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**This Song: Kevin Morby // Margaret Glaspy** Aug 31, 2016
In this episode we explore the life changing power of indie folks songs. First, singer songwriter Kevin Morby expounds on how the raw beauty of The Mountain Goats made making folk music seem both accessible and punk. Then Margaret Glaspy explains how Vic Chestnutt’s unflinching take on life and and Elliot Smith’s use of metaphor influence her as a writer.

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Watch Kevin Morby perform “Destroyer” on Vuhaus

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Watch Margaret Glaspy perform “Emotions and Math” on Vuhaus

Listen to Margaret Glassy’s Studio1A Session

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**This Song: Dion // Amanda Cevallos** Aug 24, 2016
American rock and roll icon Dion describes how he, one night, heard the soul and rhythm of Hank Williams drifting out of his family radio and was forever changed. Add to that a dose of Jimmy Reed live at the Apollo and you’ve got the birth of a rock pioneer. Later, Austinite Amanda Cevallos talks country with Elizabeth (who can talk some country) and they bond over their love of Waylon Jennings and Texas dancehalls.

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**This Song: The Octopus Project // Jane Weaver** Aug 17, 2016
The members of The Octopus Project have known each other since they were kids and this familiarity is in great evidence as they talk about how the Guns n Roses’ *Appetite for Destruction*, the *theme song from 2001: A Space Oddysey* and a live show by The Jesus Lizard. Along the way, the three end up talking about abandoning the trumpet, the connection between music and emotion and the difference between going to a show in 90’s versus today.

Then British singer-songwriter Jane Weaver shares her experience of seeing Kate Bush performing Wuthering Heights on Top of the Pops when she was just five years old, and how Bush’s look, dance and singing style still influence her work today.

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Listen to songs from episode 52 of This Song

Watch the Octopus Project perform *Small Hundred* live on VuHaus

Listen to the Octopus Project perform live in Studio 1A

Watch Kate Bush perform Withering Heights on Top of the Pops

Watch the Music Video for Top of the Pops

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**This Song: Sean Bonnette of AJJ // The Grifters** Aug 10, 2016
Sean Bonnette from AJJ (formerly Andrew Jackson Jihad) was a young man when he heard the music from the collection of his Gen X mom. He talks of that music, Violent Femmes, naturally distorted acoustic guitars and literature as sources of his inspiration. Then Scott Taylor and Tripp Lamkins from Grifters have a little listening party starting with songs by Deep Purple and ranging through 80’s alternative music from Skinny Puppy to Black Flag to the Cure.

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Listen to songs from episode 51 of This Song

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Watch the VuHaus video of Sean Bonnette performing an acoustic version of El Paso Border Patrol backstage at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

Pre-Order AJJ’s new record “The Bible 2.”

Pre-Order Vinyl or CD versions of the Grifters’ “One Sock Missing.”

Pre-Order Vinyl or CD Versions of the Grifters “Crappin’ You Negative.”

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This Song: Leon Bridges // Gary Clark Jr. Aug 03, 2016

We’ve hit a milestone – 50 episodes! We are officially middle aged! To celebrate we’ve taken two previously-aired interviews from Leon Bridges and Gary Clark Jr. and put them together to draw a direct line of influence from one artist to another. Leon Bridges explains how hearing a Gary Clark Jr. song inspired him to pursue music, and then Gary Clark Jr. describes the impact of Tupac’s “Krazy.” Expect an “epic flow chart of inspiration” sometime in the future.

Watch Leon Bridges perform a solo acoustic set live in Studio 1A

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**This Song: Sunflower Bean** Jul 27, 2016
Inspiration can come from anywhere. For Brooklyn-based Sunflower Bean the source of that inspiration spans four decades: Brian Wilson (“He’s as good as Mozart”), Devo (“The perfect band”), Beach Fossils (“The punk home-recording CD), and Tonstartssbanht (“It’s impossible to describe”) all help to form this band’s direction and sound. Hear the band tell Elizabeth tales of musical discovery, club scenes with a social conscience, what makes a perfect combination of art and commerce, and the attraction of listening to a musical genius’ decent into darkness.

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Download the live version of Sunflower Bean’s “Come On” as part of our *Song of the Day* Feature

*Listen to songs from Episode 49 of This Song*

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**This Song: SOAK // Burgess Meredith** Jul 20, 2016
Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, first heard Pink Floyd when she was in the womb (her parents soothed her with the whale songs of their epic “Echoes”) but only after rummaging through her family’s records did she rediscover the bands LP “Meddle.” Hear her tell how the track “Fearless” helped influence her songwriting and allowed her to envision how expansive recording and production could be.

Then songwriting duo Josh King and Jesse Hester from the Austin band Burgess Meredith explore the depth and breadth of their Beatlemania. Josh describes the magic of the very first pre-Beatles recording that John, Paul, and George made as the Quarrymen. Then Jesse talks about how “Yesterday’s” timeless, sweet sadness has helped him understand the purpose of songwriting.

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*Listen to Songs from Episode 48 of This Song*

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**This Song: Andra Day // Adia Victoria** Jul 06, 2016
Andra Day begins her *This Song* conversation by extolling the virtues of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and soon ventures into why Ms. Holiday is the Queen Of Jazz and how her relationship with God has been her creative well-spring.

Then Nashville-based singer-songwriter Adia Victoria talks of how her journey from a stifling small-town life to a life in the arts was inspired by Fiona Apple and , in particular, her song “Fast As You Can.”

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Watch Andra Day perform “Rise Up” in Studio 1A live on VuHaus

Check out Andra Day’s Tour Dates

Watch Adia Victoria perform “Mortimers Blues” live in Studio 1A on VuHaus

Check out Adia Victoria’s Tour Dates

Listen to songs from Episode 46 of *This Song*

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**This Song: Tommy Grace of Django Django // Adrian Quesada** Jun 29, 2016
Now who doesn’t love a Scottish accent? We at Team *This Song* certainly do and that’s just one of the reasons why we love this week’s episode with Edinburgh native Tommy Grace of the band Django Django. Bask in his delightful brogue as he explains how hearing Josh Wink’s “Higher State of Consciousness” on a mixtape from Ibiza turned him from classic rock lover to a maven of post-punk and analog synths.

Also, we talk with producer, Brownout guitarist, and The Echocentrics frontman Adrian Quesada about growing up as an only child in Laredo and how Yo! MTV Raps and 90’s hip hop excited his young mind, opened up the world of jazz and funk to him, and ultimately steered his musical vision.

Listen to Django Django’s Studio 1A Session

Watch the Echocentrics perform Canyon on VuHaus

Listen to the Echocentrics Studio1A Session

Listen to Adrian Quesada’s MyKUTX Guest DJ set

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Listen to Songs from Episode 45 of *This Song*

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**This Song: BØRNS // Calliope Musicals** Jun 22, 2016
It’s ELO Mania on *This Song!*

First is BØRNS who first discovered ELO as a kid and returned to the group’s not-so-simple chord changes as an adult. He talks to Elizabeth about “Turn To Stone,” Jeff Lynn’s writing style, guilty pleasures and how he approaches the songwriting process.

Next up is Carrie Fussell and Josh Bickley from Austin’s own Calliope Musicals. Carrie picks “Tightrope” as her song but quickly gushes about the entire ELO album “A New World Record” and how it guided her through her tough times and helped develop a new artistic direction for the band. Then the band’s co-founder and drummer Josh Bickley explains how the lyrics of a very non drum centric Blind Melon song won over his very drum centric heart.

Watch Børns perform Live in Studio 1A on VuHaus

Listen to the full Børns session from Studio 1A

Watch the Børns session on Facebook Live (scroll down to June 7th!)

Watch Calliope Musicals reform Live from Studio 1A on Vuhaus

Watch Calliope Musicals perform an acoustic version of “Dreams” backstage at ACLfest on VuHaus

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Listen to Songs from Episode 44 of *This Song*

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**This Song: San Fermin // El Tule** Jun 15, 2016
Composer, songwriter and San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone first heard Paul Simon’s album Graceland when he was five years old. He was entranced by the lyrics and the sounds so much so that he is still affected and influenced by that record today. Listen as he describes why he loves the record and how it’s stuck with him throughout his musical journey.

Then John and Tracy Dell from the Austin band El Tule give host Elizabeth McQueen a lesson in cumbia and explain how music by bands like La Sonora Dinamita, Celso Piña, and Fruko y sus Tesos helped them find their sound as a band.

Watch San Fermin perform “No Devil” backstage at ACLfest on VuHaus

Watch San Fermin perform “Emily” backstage at ACLfest on Vuhaus

Listen to Paul Simon’s new song “Wristband”

Listen to El Tule’s studio 1A Performance

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This Song: Robert Delong // John Chao of Misha Jun 08, 2016

This week we have the tale of two ten-year-olds. First, the saga of a young Robert Delong (now a songwriter and electronic musician), who as a young boy, heard the song “Stardust” while listening to a cassette of Orson Wells’ “War Of The Worlds” and was then inspired to seek out the harmony that song revealed to him. Then multi-instrumentalist and sing-songwriter John Chao tells the story of how inadequate record store categorization lead him to his hearing the album “Kiko” by Los Lobos and inspired some his best work.

Watch Robert Delong Perform “Long Way Down” on VuHaus

Watch Robert Delong Perform “Possessed” on VuHaus

Listen to Robert Delong’s full Studio 1A Session

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This Song: Eric Owen of Black Pistol Fire // Modern Outsider Records Jun 01, 2016

Black Pistol Fire Drummer Eric Owen likes the simple grooves but he didn’t know it until he heard Nirvana’s “In Bloom.” Hear about this revelation and how the song lead him to finally learn to play the drums. Then the owners of Austin’s Modern Outsider Records, Erin and Chip Adams, talk about how Suede’s “Heroine” and The Cure’s “Close to Me” set them, in their own ways, on a course to loving songs that were off the beaten path, record collecting and finally starting their own record label.

Listen to Black Pistol Fire’s MyKUTX Guest DJ Set

Listen to Black Pistol Fire’s Studio 1A Performance

Watch Black Pistol Fire Perform “Bad Blood” on VuHaus

Listen to Erin and Chip Adams’ My KUTX Guest DJ Set

Check out Modern Outsider Records

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This Song: Zac Little of Saintseneca // Sons of Bill May 24, 2016

Saintseneca’s Zac Little has been writing songs all his life. In this episode of This Song he tells Jacquie Fuller how Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert” showed him what how expansive making a recording could be, and explains the infinite possibilities contained in a single song.

Then James, Abe and Sam Wilson of Sons of Bill explore how songs by Woody Guthrie, John Prine and Bill Evan’s Trio blew their minds and describe what it’s like to play in a band with your brothers.

Watch Saintseneca perform “Sleeperhold” live in Studio 1A on VuHaus

Watch Saintseneca perform “Such Things” live in Studio 1A on VuHaus

Watch Sons of Bill perform an acoustic version of “The Big Unknown” on Vuhaus

Watch Sons of Bill perform an acoustic version of “Lost in Cosmos” on VuHaus

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 40 of This Song.

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This Song: Hrishikesh Hirway // Basia Bulat May 18, 2016

Hrishikesh Hirway produces the “Song Exploder” podcast where artists deconstruct and explain their work. He’s also a musician who leads the band The One AM Radio and and provides the music for the hip-hop project Moors. Listen as he explains how hearing Asha Bhosle’s “Yeh Hai Reshmi Zulfon Ka Andhera,” at the age of 6 helped him understand a feeling that he would be able to draw inspiration from for his entire life.

Then Canadian singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist Basia Bulat explains why a live version of Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home To Me,” changed her life.

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Watch Basia Bulat perform “Fool” live at the Four Seasons on VuHaus

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 39 of This Song.

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This Song: Alessia Cara // OSHUN May 03, 2016

This episode of ‘This Song” is all about inspiring women who just happen to be young.

Alessia Cara is a Canadian singer and songwriter who’s song “Here” hit #1 on the Hot R&B charts. She’s also 19 years old. Hear Alessia Cara chat with KUTX DJ and Producer Taylor Wallace about how she’s inspired by the music of Amy Winehouse and Drake and what her current creative life is like.

Then listen as Thandiwe and Niambi Sala of the New York based hip hop duo OSHUN, both of whom are still in college, explain how songs by Outkast and Billie Holiday helped them realize what it was they wanted to do with their own music.

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Watch Alessia Cara perform “Here” on solo on VuHaus

Watch OSHUN’s Studio 1A Performance

Download OSHUN’s Mixtape Asase Yaa

Listen to OSHUN on Soundcloud

Watch the video for OSHUN “Protect Your Self”

Listen to the songs featured in Episode 38 of This Song.

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This Song: John Doe // Jeff Klein Apr 26, 2016

John Doe fronts the LA punk band X, has a thriving solo career, has acted in movies and TV and now is an author. He just released a book called “Under the Big Black Sun,” that chronicles the L.A. punk scene from the perspective of the folks who were there. In this episode of This Song he talks about how hearing Lead Belly as a kid gave him a glimpse of the weirdness and darkness that lay beyond the mainstream.

Then Jeff Klein from My Jerusalem talks about how a song by The Replacements took him from Neil Diamond and hair bands into the world of music that he genuinely loved and that would eventually inspire him to make music of his own.

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Check out “Under the Big Black Sun”

Watch John Doe Perform ‘”A Little Help” live on VuHaus

Listen to My Jerusalem’s new single “Rabbit Rabbit” on Soundcloud

Watch My Jerusalem perform “Born in the Belly” live on VuHaus

Watch My Jerusalem perform “Sweet Chariot” live on VuHaus

Listen the songs featured in Episode 37 of This Song.

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This Song: Thao Nguyen // BUHU Apr 19, 2016

Thao Nguyen from Thao and the Get Down Stay Down talks about her love for Lucinda Williams‘ song “Drunken Angel” and the power of the “good hurt.”

Then Juan Mendez Barjau, Clellan Hyatt and Jeremy Rogers of the Austin band BUHU talk about everything from the importance of good headphones to the placement of Dave Grohl’s drumming to the necessity of love in music.

Check out Thao and the Get Down Stay Down’s new Record A Man Alive

Watch Thao and the Get Down Stay Down on VuHaus

Listen to Thao Nguyen’s MyKUTX Guest DJ Set

Check out BUHU’s new record Relationshapes

Listen to BUHU’s Studio 1A set

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Listen to the songs featured in episode 36 of This Song.

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This Song: Bob Boilen // Mobley Apr 12, 2016

Bob Boilen, host of NPR’s All Songs Considered wrote a new book called “Your Song Changed My Life,” where he interviewed people about songs that changed their lives. What can we say? Great minds think alike!

Listen as he talks about his own life-changing song — the Beatles “A Day in the Life,” which totally opened his mind up to the expansive capabilities of music and art and informed the kind of musician he would become.

Then Austin artist Mobley explores how Kanye West’s “808’s and Heartbreak” showed him how important emotion and vulnerability in music could be and informed the material for his new EP “Some Other Country” which explores his experience of being a black man in America through songs that sound, at first listen, like songs about someone in a bad relationship.

Check out Bob Boilen’s “Your Song Changed My Life”

Check out Bob Boilen’s website where all his music lives

Watch the only existing video of 80’s era Tiny Desk Unit

Watch Mobley’s video for “Solo”

Watch Mobley’s video for “Swoon”

Check out Mobley’s new EP “Some Other Country”

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Listen to the songs featured in this week’s episode.

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This Song: M. Ward // Dana Falconberry Apr 05, 2016

Sometimes hearing someone else’s song can make you realize that something that you never even knew existed was possible. For M. Ward it was John Fahey’s record “The Yellow Princess,” which showed him that an artist could say everything he wanted using only one acoustic guitar. For Dana Falconberry, it was the songs she learned while playing with Redding Hunter in the band “Peter and the Wolf” which changed her approach to songwriting and performing.

Watch M.Ward perform “I’m Listening” live in Studio1A on VuHaus

Watch John Fahey perform “Red Pony“

Watch John Fahey perform “On the Sunny Side of the Ocean”

Watch Dana Falconberry perform “Cora Cora” live in Studio 1A of VuHaus

Check out Dana Falconberry’s tour of National Parks!

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Listen to the songs featured in episode 34 of This Song.

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This Song: James Petralli of White Denim // Bayonne Mar 29, 2016

Songs can serve as musical touchstones that we return to when we want to remind ourselves what we want music to be. For White Denim’s James Petralli, that song is the Grateful Dead’s “That’s It For the Other One,” which helped him realize how he wanted to approach both the guitar and recording. With the song as a starting point, Petralli goes on to explain why drummers are the most important members of the band, why all musical expression is valid and what it was like to record the bands’s new record “Stiff” with Ethan Johns.

Then Bayonne explores how The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” showed him how powerful openness and vulnerability in music could be and explains how he approached his new record “Primitives” with that same openness.

Watch White Denim perform “Ha Ha Ha Ha Yeah” on VuHaus

Check out White Denim’s Tour Dates

Watch Bayonne, who previously went by the name Roger Sellers, perform “Waves” from him new record “Primitives” Live in Studio 1A.

Check out Bayonne’s Tour Dates

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Listen to the songs featured in episode 33 of This Song.

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This Song: Eugene Mirman // Ringo Deathstarr Mar 22, 2016

Eugene Mirman may not be a musician per se, but his new comedy record “I’m Sorry, (You’re Welcome)” is a 9 Volume, 7 LP set of comedy that includes music in the form of meditations and erotic soundscapes. Listen as he explains to Elizabeth McQueen why he chose to incorporate music into his latest release and stage show and talks about the music that inspires him…or doesn’t.

Then Elliot Frazier and Daniel Corborn of Ringo Deathstarr talk about how hearing Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine when they were kids helped them see that they could make music that was discordant, distorted and totally satisfying.

Find Eugene Mirman’s tour dates here

Listen to Ringo Deathstarr Live in Studio 1A

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 32 of This Song.

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This Song: SXSW Extra! Butch Vig Mar 18, 2016

Producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig is in town for SXSW to promote the “The Smart Studios Story,” a documentary about the studio he ran with Steve Marker in Madison Wisconsin where Nirvana’s Nevermind, was recorded. Butch sat down with host Elizabeth McQueen to talk about how seeing the Who perform “My Generation” on the Smothers Brothers made him want to be become a drummer, and showed him the kind of energy he would later help others capture in the studio. Along the way talks about what it means to be a producer, how Garbage got started and the beauty of Smart Studios.

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This Song: Mark Mothersbaugh // Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen Mar 15, 2016

It’s an extra special, extra long, SXSW extravanganza episode of This Song! First Mark Mothersbaugh describes in vivid detail what is was like to see the Beatles for the first time on Ed Sullivan, and how he became the 5th Beatle, at least in his mind. Then Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen from A Giant Dog and Sweet Spirit talk about the the riffs and raw power of Iggy Pop, the songwriting of Regina Spektor how they came to write songs together.

Check out the Mark Mothersbaugh’s Myopia at the Contemporary Austin

Watch Sweet Spirit perform “Baby When I Close My Eyes” live from KUTX on VuHaus

Watch the video for A Giant Dog’s “Sex and Drugs”

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This Song: Josh Ritter // John Carter Cash Mar 08, 2016

This Song has gone country! In this episode we have two examples of artists who drew inspiration from the deep well of American Country music.

First Josh Ritter explains how delving into the catalogue of Roger Miller helped him let go of the rules and find his voice for his new record “Sermon on the Rocks.” Then producer John Carter Cash explains why the music of his grandmother, Mother Maybelle Carter, influenced his musical path even more than the work of his father, Johnny Cash. He also explains how that music found it’s way onto “Full Circle,” the new record he produced for Loretta Lynn.

Listen to Josh Ritter’s studio 1A performance

Watch Josh Ritter perform “Getting Ready to Get Down” on VuHaus

Watch the Trailer for Loretta Lynn’s new record “Full Circle”

Get the info for Loretta Lynn’s official SXSW show

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 30 of This Song.

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This Song: Delbert McClinton // Carrie Rodriguez Mar 01, 2016

Delbert McClinton has spent his life in music paying homage to American blues music. In this episode of This Song he tells the story of the first time he heard Big Joe Turner’s “Honey Hush” wafting out of a window. As he tells Taylor Wallace “The pulse was right where my heart beat.” From that moment on, he was driven to give everything he had to the blues

Then Carrie Rodriguez tells the story of the first time she heard Bill Frisell while touring in Europe. His version of “Cluck Old Hen” opened her up to the idea that traditional music need not be played in a traditional way, and helped inform her latest record “Lola.”

Listen to Delbert McClinton’s Studio 1A Session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez and the Sacred Hearts Studio 1A session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez’s MyKUTX Guest DJ session

Watch Carrie Rodriguez perform “Frio en al Alma” on Vuhaus

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 29 of This Song.

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This Song Extra! Jonathan Meiburg talks Aeilli, Bowie, Caracaras and more Feb 25, 2016

What do John Aielli, David Bowie and Caracaras all have in common? Jonathan Meiburg from Shearwater has learned something from all of them. Hear about his many and varied interests and why he can’t casually listen to music anymore in this first ever This Song extra!

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This Song: Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater // Cross Record Feb 23, 2016

Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg grew up listening to his parent’s classical music and white bread pop. Then he heard Vic Chesnutt. In this episode of “This Song” you can hear how Chesnutt’s “Big Huge Valley” helped him realize there was a whole world of music bubbling beneath the mainstream. Plus, he makes the case that Nina Simone is the “best popular musician of the 20th century, and maybe the 21st century too.”

Then Emily Cross of the KUTX Artist of the Month Cross Record describes the effect Imogen Heap’s“Hide and Seek” had on her while her partner, Dan Duszynski, explains how King Tubby expanded his ideas of what music could be.

Listen to Shearwater’s Studio 1A performance

Listen to Cross Record’s Studio 1A performance

Listen to Cross Record’s MyKUTX guest DJ set

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 28 of “This Song”.

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This Song: Ian Astbury of the Cult // P.T. Banks Feb 16, 2016

Ian Astbury of The Cult explains the powerful effect that David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” had on him when he was 10 years old and P.T. Banks talks about how Paul Simon’s “Everything Put Together Falls Apart,” helped him understand life, substance abuse and death.

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Watch the video for “Hinterland” by The Cult

Watch the video for “Deeply Ordered Chaos” by the Cult

Watch the video for “Dark Energy” but the Cult

Check out the Cult’s Tour dates

Check out P.T. Banks Live Studio 1A Performance

Download P.T. Banks “Resurrection” as part of KUTX’s “Song of the Day” feature.

Watch P.T. Banks perform ‘West Was Won” on VuHaus

Listen to Laurie Gallardo interview P.T. Banks

Listen to the songs featured in this episode of “This Song”.

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This Song: Jose Gonzalez // Daniel James and Trevor Wiggins of Leopold and his Fiction Feb 09, 2016

In this episode of This Song Jose Gonzalez talks to Taylor Wallace about the many ways Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” inspired his musical style as does drummer Trevor Wiggins of Leopold and his Fiction. Then, Daniel James, lead singer and guitar player for Leopold and his Fiction, talks about how growing up in Detroit and re-descovering Motown as an adult helped him find his sound.

Watch the live video of Jose Gonzalez performing “With the Ink of a Ghost”on VuHaus

Watch the live video of Leopold and his Fiction performing “Ride” on Vuhaus

Watch the live video of Leopold and his Fiction performing “I’m Caving in” on Vuhaus

Watch the music video for “I’m Caving In” directed by Trevor Wiggins

Listen to Leopold and his Fiction performing Live in Studio 1A ay KUTX here and here

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This Song: Benjamin Booker, Laura Patiño Feb 02, 2016

In this episode of “This Song” Benjamin Booker explains how songs by Nigerian artist William Oneaybor, the Zambian band Witch and the Caribbean band The Beginning of the End are all helping him shape the sound of the music he’s writing now, both musically and thematically. Then Laura Patiño of Holiday Mountain describes how a song by M.I.A. helped her find her power as a woman and her voice as a musician.

Check out David Byrne’s Luaka Bop Records!

Check out Holiday Mountain’s Video for “Bump that Bass.”

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This Song: Leon Bridges // Cory Reinisch and Dustin Meyer of Harvest Thieves Jan 26, 2016

In this episode of “This Song” Leon Bridges sits down with Art Levy and explains how hearing Gary Clark Jr’s “Bright Lights” changed everything for him. Then Cory Reinisch and Dustin Meyer from Harvest Thieves talk about how Uncle Tupelo, Led Zeppelin and the Weary Boys showed them the importance of the song and that country and rock and roll need not be separated.

Listen to The Paul Ray Remembrance

Check out the “This Song” episode featuring Gary Clark Jr.

Check out Harvest Thieves MyKUTX guest DJ set.

Download Harvest Thieves “Bob Dylan’s 78th Hangover” as part of the Song of the Day Feature

Watch the video for Harvest Thieves “Bob Dylan’s 78th Hangover”

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Matthew Logan Vasquez // Michael Kingcaid// Kevin Sekhani Jan 19, 2016

In the week after the deaths of Paul Ray, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, “This Song” goes spiritual as Delta Spirit’s Matthew Logan Vasquez explains how Bob Dylan’s “To Ramona” helped him grapple with agnosticism. Then, Michael Kingcaid from What Made Milwaukee Famous explains why Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” showed him the importance of the Epic and former Austinite Kevin Sekhani talks about how hearing Bowie’s “Fame” made him feel feelings he hadn’t felt before.

Learn more about Paul Ray here and here.

Check out Matthew Logan Vasquez’s Studio 1A Performance

Download Matthew Logan Vasquez’s “Maria” as part of KUTX’s “Song of the Day” Feature

Watch the video for Under Pressure

Watch David Bowie’s video for Lazarus because it’s awesome.

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Shawnee Kilgore + Joss Whedon // Daisy O’connor Jan 12, 2016

In this episode of “This Song,” musical partners Shawnee Kilgore and Joss Whedon explain how they’re inspired by Ani DiFranco, the Grateful Dead and each other. And Daisy O’connor recalls how grudgingly going to see Gregory Alan Isakov perform in a friend’s living room changed the entire course of her life.

Check out “Big Giant Me” on iTunes

Check out the Kickstarter video that inspired Joss Whedon to reach out to Shawnee Kilgore.

Listen to Daisy O’connor’s Studio 1A Session

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This Song 2015 Dec 22, 2015

The “This Song” podcast Team is taking the holidays off, which means you can finally get caught up on the episodes you missed! You can listen to or download all the episodes listed below or go to iTunes and grab the episodes there. We’ve had fabulous time building this podcast, and we can’t wait to talk about more music in 2016.

Episode 21: Nels Cline and Julian Lage Listen in iTunes

Episode 20: Gary Clark Jr, Tameca Jones Listen in iTunes

Episode 19: Twin Shadow, Michael Ramos Listen in iTunes

Episode 18: Sylvan Esso, SIP SIP Listen in iTunes

Episode 17: Oddisee, Mike Harmeier Listen in iTunes

Episode 16: Thom Green of Alt-J, Ume Listen in Itunes

Episode 15: Tame Impala, Mark Creaney Listen in iTunes

Episode 14: Kelsey Wilson, Riders Against the Storm Listen in iTunes

Episode 13: Glen Hansard, Gina Chavez Listen in iTunes

Episode 12: Moving Panoramas Listen in iTunes

Episode 11: Holly Miranda, Johnny Goudie, David Ramirez Listen in iTunes

Episode 10: Max Frost, Nakia Listen in iTunes

Episode 9: Laura Marling, Todd Wolfson Listen in iTunes

Episode 8: Crooks Listen in iTunes

Episode 7: Brennen Leigh, Noel McKay, Lisa Pankratz Listen in iTunes

Episode 6: They Might Be Giants Listen in iTunes

Episode 5: Toro y Moi, Gordon Moakes Listen in iTunes

Episode 4: Hal Ketchum, Pokey LaFarge Listen in iTunes

Episode 3: Magna Carda Listen in iTunes

Episode 2: Brian Beattie, Kathy McCarty, Ray Benson Listen in iTunes

Episode 1: Mojo Nixon, Kat Edmonson and Aaron Behrens

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Nels Cline // Julian Lage Dec 15, 2015

In this episode of “This Song,” Wilco guitarist Nels Cline describes how John Coltrane’s Africa opened a door to an entire world of music he never knew existed and Julian Lage explains his attraction to the authentic interaction between Bill Evans and Jim Hall on “Undercurrent.”

Watch Nels Cline and Julian Lage perform “Calder” on Vuhaus.

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Gary Clark Jr // Tameca Jones Dec 08, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Gary Clark Jr. explains how Tupac’s “Krazy” inspired him musically and lyrically. Along the way he gives insight into his own writing process. Taylor Wallace talks to Tameca Jones about how seeing Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” in the context of “Pretty in Pink” helped her set the tone for the way she wanted to approach music.

Start your exploration of the Work of Bob Ross!

Hear Tameca Jones Studio 1A Performance!

Watch Ducky perform ‘Try a Little Tenderness” from Pretty in Pink!

Check out Black Fret!

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Twin Shadow // Michael Ramos Dec 01, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Twin Shadow explores the magic of Bob Dylan’s song “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” and keyboard player, producer and bandleader Michael Ramos explains how Green Onions connects him to the people he loves.

Listen to this episode of This Song

See Twin Shadow perform “I’m Ready” on VuHaus

Listen to Michael Ramos’ guest DJ Set on MyKUTX

Visit the SIMS foundation website

Visit Ian McLagan’s Website

Listen to Ian McLagan’s Studio 1A performance

Listen to Ian McLagan’s guest DJ set on My KUTX

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Sylvan Esso // SIP SIP Nov 24, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso to talk about the joys of Soul Coughing. Then, Taylor Wallace talks to Jack Anderson, Isaac Winburne and Andrew Fontenot of the band SIP SIP about their influences, which range from Kool and the Gang and Stevie Wonder, to Tool.

Hear SIP SIP Live in Studio 1A here

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Oddisee // Mike Harmeier of Mike and the Moonpies Nov 17, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen talks to Oddisee about Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” a song that taught him that music can serve both the body and the mind. She also speaks to Mike Harmeier of Mike and the Moonpies about how hearing records by Ryan Adams and Wilco at the right time in his life helped him broaden his ideas of what he could do with his music.

Check out Oddisee’s Studio 1A Performance

Download a live version of Oddisee’s song “That’s Love” from our “Song of the Day” Feature.

Check out the live performance of “Contradictions Maze” on Vuhaus

Check out Mike and the Moonpies Studio 1A Performance

Download a live version of Mike and the Moonpies song “Say it Simply” from our “Song of the Day” Feature.”

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Thom Green of Alt-J // Ume Nov 10, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with drummer/producer Thom Green from Alt-J to discuss his musical influences from Nirvana to Yamaneko. And the members of the band Ume each talk about a musical experience that helped them figure out what they wanted to accomplish with their music.

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Tame Impala // Mark Creaney of Sounds del Mar Oct 27, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Kevin Parker of Tame Impala to talk about how a Led Zeppelin song helped him see that rock and dance music weren’t necessarily separate from one another. And Mark Creaney of Sounds del Mar explains how a live version of a song by the Band opened him up to the idea that he could put everything that he loved into his music.

See Sounds del Mar perform “Vidal Sassoon” live backstage at ACLfest on VuHaus.

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Kelsey Wilson of Wild Child // Riders Against the Storm Oct 12, 2015

In this Episode of “This Song” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Kelsey Wilson from Wild Child to talk about how a Nina Simone song taught her about the power of emotion and freedom in music. Then she talks with Qi and Chaka from Riders Against the Storm about the thematic power of Ibeyi’s “River,” and about their process behind their own remix of the song.

Hear Riders Against the Storms “River” Remix on Soundcloud

Download Riders Against the Storm’s “River” Remix as part of the KUTX Song of the Day feature

Hear the full version of Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free.” Live from Montreux Jazz 1976

Hear Nina Simone talk about what freedom means to her.

See Wild Child’s Studio 1A performance

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Glen Hansard // Gina Chavez (Episode 13, 2015) Sep 28, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Glen Hansard to talk about a song and an extraordinary experience around that song that made him know, for sure, that he would be a musician. She also talks to Gina Chavez about a genre she heard in Argentina that hit her in the center of her being and helped her find her artistic voice.

Check out videos from Glen Hansard’s Studio 1A performance on Vu Haus.

Check out a video about the making of “Didn’t He Ramble.”

Check out Gina Chavez’s Tiny Desk Concert

Hear songs from Gina Chavez’s studio 1A performance.

Download a live version of her song as part of our “Song of the Day Podcast.”

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Moving Panoramas — Leslie Sisson, Karen Skloss and Rozie Castoe Sep 14, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Moving Panoramas. Leslie Sisson, Karen Skloss and Rozie Castoe all talk about songs that changed them and contributed to the sound of Moving Panoramas.

You can here the Moving Panorama’s My KUTX DJ set here.

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Holly Miranda // Johnny Goudie // David Ramirez Aug 28, 2015

In this episode of “This Song,” Taylor Wallace sits down with Holly Miranda to talk about how a song she heard as a teenager opened her up to being open. Elizabeth McQueen sits down with musician and “how did I get here” host Johnny Goudie to hear about a song from his teens that made him long for longing. And KUTX Artist of the month for August, David Ramirez, tells Elizabeth about a song he fell in love with in 4th grade that still inspires him today.

Listen to Holly Miranda’s studio 1A performance here Download her live version of “All I Want is to Be Your Girl” from our Song of the Day podcast here. Listen to Johhny Goudie’s podcast “how did I get here” here. Listen to David Ramirez’s Studio 1A session here. Download David Ramirez’s “Communion” from our Song of the Day here podcast here. Listen to David Ramirez’s guest DJ set for the MyKUTX series here. And check out our music satire feature “the Rabbit Hole” here. Subscribe via iTunes or Stitcher to get the new episodes of “This Song” delivered to you as soon as they come out.

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Max Frost // Nakia Aug 14, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Max Frost and Nakia to talk about songs that helped them find their artistic voices.

You can hear Max Frost’s studio 1A Performance from June 6, 2015 here

You can see the video of Nakia singing with Sharon Jones here

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Laura Marling // Todd Wolfson Jul 30, 2015

In this Episode of “This Song,” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with singer-songwriter Laura Marling and photographer Todd Wolfson to talk about songs that gave them a greater understanding of freedom and transcendence.

You can hear Laura Marling’s Studio 1A performance here.

You can download Laura Marling’s cover of Towne’s Van Zandt’s “For the Sake of the Song” as part of our “Song of the Day” feature here.

You can check out the work of Todd V Wolfson here.

You can find out when the next Todd Family Music Series at Monkeynest Coffee is here.

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Crooks Jul 17, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with most of the members of the Austin outlaw country band Crooks. Guitar player Ryan Goebel, Trumpet and percussion player Doug Day, accordion player Anthony Ortiz Junior, drummer Joey Bybee and songwriter/guitar player Josh Mazor all talk about all the various influences they bring to their raucous mix of country, rock and conjunto.

Crooks have a new record out called Wildfire, and might be coming to your town to play a show! You can check out their tour schedule here.

Listen to the Crooks live Studio 1A performance here.

You can download the live version of “Fork in the Road” here as part of our “Song of the Day” Series. If you want a cool new song delivered to you daily you can subscribe to “Song of the Day” on iTunes here.

You can listen to the Crooks “My KUTX” guest DJ set here.

You can listen to the “Austin Music Minute” about the Crooks CD release party here. And you can subscribe to the “Austin Music Minute” here.

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Brennen Leigh // Noel McKay // Lisa Pankratz Jul 03, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with country music collaborators Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay to talk about musical experiences they had as kids that are still influencing their lives today. And she talks to drummer Lisa Pankratz about a classic song that inspires the way she approaches her music.

You can check out Brennen Leigh’s Indiegogo campaign for the project where she sings the songs of Lefty Frizzel here.

You can listen to the songs from Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay’s studio 1A Session here

You can listen to Noel McKay’s MyKUTX DJ set here.

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John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants Jun 18, 2015

This week guest interviewer Bill Childs, host of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child, sits down with John Flansburgh and John Linnell from They Might Be Giants to hear about the impact of the Batman theme and a evolving charm of a song from a record inspired by the Pogo cartoon. Along the way they also chat about kid record collections and the power of riffs and lyrics.

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child airs Sunday nights at 6pm on KUTX.

And here is the They Might Be Giants performance from May 14th, 2015 in Studio 1A.

For those you who want to hear the original Pussywillows version of Hillbilly Drummer Girl, here it is!

And here is the TMBG video of their version of “Whence that Wince.”

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Toro y Moi // Gordon Moakes Jun 05, 2015

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth sits down with Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi aka Les Sins, and Gordon Moakes, who played bass with Bloc Party and now plays with Young Legionnaire. He also has a podcast called Exploded Drawing, where artists talk about one of their favorite 90’s records. Both musicians spoke about songs and records that showed them the possibilities of where they could take their music.

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Hal Ketchum // Pokey Lafarge May 20, 2015

On this episode of “This Song,” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Hal Ketchum to hear how the music of Van Morrison has inspired him since his days as a teenage drummer playing rowdy clubs. And Pokey LaFarge talks about how Lefty Frizzel’s imperfect yet compelling singing influenced his own music.

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This Song: Magna Carda Mar 30, 2015

On this episode of This Song, Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Magna Carda — Megz Kelli, Dougie Do, Eric Nikolaides, Derek Van Wagner and Michael Gonzales — and hears about each of their important songs–everything from the Soulquarians to Sir Duke.

Magna Carda has a new record out called Like it Is, which you can download for free from Bandcamp.

This Song was recorded by Cliff Hargrove and edited and produced by Elizabeth McQueen with help from David Sanger. The theme song is “Mahout” by Hard Proof.

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Brian Beattie //Kathy McCarty //Ray Benson Dec 06, 2014

In this episode of “This Song” we hear Brian Beattie talk about a song that blew him away and made a shelf in his brain, Kathy McCarty talks about a song that opened her up to the possibility that songwriting wasn’t just for people from the olden times, and Ray Benson explores a song that showed him the power of one note played with emotion.

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Mojo Nixon // Kat Edmonson // Aaron Behrens Oct 27, 2014

This Song — Mojo Nixon, Kat Edmonson, Aaron Behrens

Welcome to the first ever “This Song” podcast! This week we have three amazing artists!

Mojo Nixon: The rock musician, DJ, lover of Elvis and natural born iconoclast talks about why “Sweet Soul Music” by Arthur Conley is the song that still makes him feel like an exuberant 10-year-old.

Kat Edmonson: Fresh off the release of her new record “The Big Picture,” the former Austinite talks about how Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” inspired her recording of “Rainy Day Woman.”

Aaron Behrens: The former Ghostland Observatory singer has struck out his own with Aaron Behrens and the Midnight Stroll He talks about how when he was a kid, Curtis Mayfield’s “We People Darker Than Blue” from the Dead Presidents Volume 2 soundtrack opened his eyes to the possibilities of music.

Our intro and outro music is “Mahout” from the local Austin band Hardproof Afrobeat.

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