TAS on FUV for Wednesday June 12th
The Alternate Side comes your way at 10p!
Public Radio from Fordham University
The Alternate Side comes your way at 10p!
Kim and Reggie Harris are one of my favorite married musical couples. Their lives have been very eventful in the past few years. Kim just received her doctorate in sacred music from Union Theological Seminary (with a dissertation called "Welcome Table: A Mass of Spirituals"). Reggie had an emergency liver transplant which gave him a new lease on life. (Hence the title of their new CD, "Resurrection Day.") They brought their hard-won wisdom, their laughter, and their harmonies into Studio A for a warm and wonderful session.
Lizzy Plapinger and Max Hershenow are the NYC duo known as MS MR. They recently released their full length debut, Secondhand Rapture, and stopped by our Studio A to play some of their new songs and chat with me about their music making process.
What do Sting, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, and Mumford & Sons all have in common? They're all taking part in next week's agit8 project, an anti-poverty movement backed by the One Campaign, created by U2's Bono, designed to influence leaders at the upcoming G-8 summit in Northern Ireland. A group of many great artists will be coming together to get people riled up by re-recording some classic protest songs. If you were producing this record, what songs would you include?
Here is a live broadcast of an amazing FUV Live show with Robert Randolph and the Family Band. It was recorded at Rockwood Music Hall on the Lower East Side here in NYC. We were treated to a preview of some of the songs from the new album, Lickety Split, which comes out in July. The band also performed some classic songs from their catalog, including a very lively version of "I Need More Love." This show demonstrates the awesome control and skill that Robert Randolph has over the pedal steel guitar, and what enthralling performers he and his band are.