We discussed songwriting influences, inspirations and heard the first snippets from his upcoming album to be released on Atlantic Records.
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Episode 9 Playlist
1/ GEOFF MULDAUR – This World Is Not My Home – The Secret Handshake
2/ OSCAR ISAAC and MARCUS MUMFORD – Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) – Inside Llewyn Davis: Soundtrack
3/ TOM WAITS – Big Joe and Phantom 309 – Under The Covers: The Songs He Didn’t Write
4/ LORI MCKENNA – Old Men, Young Women – The Bird & the Rifle
5/ ROBERT ELLIS – Fucking Crazy – Texas Piano Man
6/ EELS – Railroad Man – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
7/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – I Am Samantha – Unreleased
8/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – Hibernate With Me – Single
9/ PARIS MONSTER – Grandma – It Once Had Been Kind
10/ JAMES MCMURTRY – You Got To Me – Complicated Game
11/ DAYNA KURTZ – It’s How You Hold Me – Rise and Fall
12/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – The Tree – Unreleased
13/ RICHIE HAVENS – I Can’t Make It Anymore – Mixed Bag
14/ GREG BROWN – Trump Can’t Have That – Single
15/ STEVE EARLE – The Mountain – The Mountain
16/ GLEN HANSARD – Maybe Not Tonight – Rhythm and Repose
17/ THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS AND CHRIS LIGON – The Great State of Texas – The Executioner’s Last Songs Volume 1
18/ LOS LOBOS – Little Things – The Town and the City
19/ IRMA THOMAS – Blue in the Heart – My Heart’s In Memphis: The Songs Of Dan Penn
20/ THE CORAL – Cobwebs – Roots and Echoes
21/ MARK ERELLI – Night Train – Milltowns
22/ ERIN RAE – Wild Blue Wind – Putting On Airs
23/ PETER WOLF – There’s Still Time – Midnight Souvenirs
24/ CHARLIE ROTH – The Chair – I’m The Smile
25/ WILCO – How To Fight Loneliness – Summerteeth
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