What makes you want to cross the border from your own culture to sing a song or play some music from someplace else. I had a friend who had two rules in life. Never believe your own publicity and stay hungry. Songwriters only remain good, one theory goes, if they stay hungry. Hungry for ideas, hungry for love.
Satisfaction is a perilous thing.
1125 MAPL Episode 5 - I'll Never be the Same Songs that changed our lives. Episode five looks at how and why that could happen in the space of song. Interviews and music from Dan Bern, Paul Kelly, Chester Knight, Andy White. In our interview with Arlo Guthrie he mentioned that he could tell if it was Pete Seeger playing the banjo by hearing just one note. This episode is about distinctive styles and why you can just tell that that song is by a particular person.