Thank you welcome back you're listening to our show from the green Music Center at the University of Sonoma in Rohnert Park California 'd RINGBACK 'd 'd. Don't say. She's sleeping. In. Silver. She says there. Won't be. Many. To. Tell you. And the very next t.v. . Coersion. Leave you with. The power. To power and. To Power. READY RINGBACK READY and so. Long. Really. Hard. To not the men. That. Love didn't. Know their own. Mother. Could. 'd be your. Cause. And I decide. To sleep on. My. I'll love my. Thank you very much. There's been a hell of a week for musicians birthday is I want to start by wishing a very happy birthday to friend of the show and our only so far canonized Gast St Vincent St Vincent Ok Annie Clark in addition to being a great songwriter vocalist and guitarist is a truly magnetic performer when she's when she graced our little corner of the airwaves last December every last 1 of us who make the show were glued to the side of the stage leaning forward straining our ears for every note here's the 1st same as the song I ever heard from her 2009 album actor this is an actor out of work. One to one to receive. Thank stuff ready for this John Coltrane John. Coltrane who once said I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words I want to speak to their souls and boy did he ever so much so in fact that the Yardbird temple in San Francisco made the very understandable decision to worship Him as God incarnate. I asked Alex Alex Hargraves back there on the fiddle if there was a solo of trains he would be up for learning and I could not believe it when he suggested this transcendent bit of improv which he transcribed and worked out this week here's the 1st couple minutes of John Coltrane's take on Chim Chim note for note take it away. So I. here for Alice Park for. All of Mr Crane our well done to. The queen of the blues the queen of the blues Koko Taylor Koko Taylor you want to show how the force of nature that is Koko Taylor came into your life yes so I was born and raised in Guatemala and I had actually never ever heard of the blues not until my mom took me to New York City on a vacation trip and I was walking down the street and I heard this woman singing and I was just stunned by it and I just went up to her and I asked her what is this music you're singing and she said Oh that's the blues honey and I was like wow the flute. I was I was 13 years old or you know that music was so foreign to me so I went to a record store and I didn't know who the artists were of course so I just bought a compilation cd I went back to Guatemala I put it on and the 1st song that played with like so when bang doodle I could take. Root. Cause. You. The last but certainly not least happy birthday to one of the greatest pianists and compulsive Hummer's of the 20th century Glenn Gould Glenn Gould perhaps best remembered for his lucid explosive and at times controversial interpretations of the music of j.s. Bach whom he introduced to a great many North Americans including our guitarist Chris Eldridge and myself I was 15 years old my gramma Sal sat me down with Gould's 1901 recording of the Goldberg Variations and it absolute blew my mind. I hear your grandma is also responsible for your love of Glenn Gould and Bach Yes Glenn Gould playing Bach was omnipresent in her house and in her car along with Oscar Peterson was a good thing wow yeah God bless. And God bless Glenn gold with critter as his left hand and me as his right hand here sans humming is Gould's interpretation of Bach's b. Flat part he Number 2 the album. Didn't do that READY READY READY. 'd thank. You Thank You Thank You. Thank you for thank you I'm good to have you both know you extraordinary. Thank you . Oh and I'm always so happy to say these words ladies and gentlemen here's Mr Tom . This essay it's in my book it's called the importance of the romantic getaway romances the key elements in the beginning of every relationship it's what drives the whole union you meet there's a chemical reaction and like 2 electric eels you twist and dance and turn each other. I think that's what heels do. If they don't I'm not sure where they're here . In the beginning you can help a be spontaneous you know you turn into teenage goofballs creating your own world away from the rest of mankind you share inside jokes you come up with nicknames for each other you stay on the phone because you just can't hang up you stay together in bed for days without thinking about food or even bathing. But eventually the romance leads to marriage and children and buying a house and adopting some pets and you begin making car payments and paying for school and carpooling and spending weekends at gymnastics meets and traveling to baseball games and suddenly there's very little time for romance you alternately become business partners in a horrible nonprofit organization. I . Hear doing good work there's a lot of love there and you're helping people but in order to achieve that romantic feeling that one time came naturally you now have to plan Welcome to the romantic getaway there goofy and they're forced and far from spontaneous but if you want to help the marriage you have to do it call your parents beg a friend hire a sitter and have them come watch the kids all you have to do is get over the embarrassment of waving goodbye while you're all aware that you're heading off to a hotel for one reason and one reason only. Actually you don't even have to be that embarrassed because here's a little secret about the room have to get away at a certain point it's not as much about the lovemaking as it is about the sleep. You enter the peaceful serenity of an empty hotel room without children and responsibility and your brain literally disconnects before you even know what happened how. Keeping is knocking on the door telling you it's checkout time. The Bed and Breakfast is a favorite place for a romantic getaway but I've always found that to be extremely weird a romantic night if a romantic night is what you're after house built in the 1700s with a bed is creaky is a rusty wagon isn't the most carefree in an uninhibited environment. There's always that creepy Morning Coming Down sharing coffee with all the strangers who were eavesdropping on you the night before. Well good morning how. It's like getting caught at your parents' house. Recently my wife insists that we go somewhere with a spa she sees this is an opportunity to drag me to a couple's massage Come on it'll be great she says just relax and let your mind wander It's Wonderful know it's wonderful for her I'm a man a naked man being touched by a strange new lady if I let my mind wander the way it wants to. It's going to show I. So the whole time I'm in there I'm thinking about death and taxes. Slow dancing with my grandfather. By the time I'm done I'm more tense than when I went in. The thing about these romantic getaways is that despite all the awkwardness they really do work we are so much happier when we get back and it doesn't have to be fancy just go anywhere a hotel in the next city a Motel 6 off the freeway even that creepy motel in town that looks like a serial killer boot camp. We once stayed in our minivan. Well it was parked in the garage 10 feet from our house. We were out of the house we were together it counts. What doesn't count as a romantic getaway is any trip that involves any of your family you can call anything a getaway if it involves bringing the people you're trying to get away from. So just go every once in a while while you're starting to get sick of each other pack a bag ditch that nonprofit organization and run away from home thank you thank Bob all. Thank you thank you no for our local break a song from a great friend of the show just just cuz. She was born and raised nearby in Santa Rosa California yet more proof of the magic this land produces from just because 2009 album hunting my dress that a bunch of us on the stage for eked out over when it came out this is the kingdom. Now. They. Are. Just. Don't pay my bills I am. A visit when I was The. With a gold. Ring they. Go love. Coat the. Cuckoo Governor Rendell from hell fellow just thank. All the. The life I'm here if you're just tuning in we're joined by an international rhythmic phenomenon one of the world's preeminent top players here Zakir Hussain with the violin Maestro got national policy. Thanks thanks thanks. 2 2 2 2 If. That's your few more words. Who are obsessed with dinosaurs as evidence by my my socks I have to run the sources on them to run a sore on. You have a poem on the subject that you write pushing. Dinosaurs. Not sure but I have the suspicion dinosaurs had thought private complicated but each skull brimming with a furious little soup of thoughts about loneliness and the taste of bamboo and the pleasure of silence and the strange alert of a well proportioned neck they'd bang their head against a conifer and wonder what the heck it is about angles slight differences in geometry the can is slave you. Not unlike the cookoff and in our own heads just that they lacked the right tone shape Ridge or fulcrum of musculature to open the relief valve they had thoughts about that too wondering how to spit their insides how and why they cared to especially the branches Saurus. The research yields no definitive results there is no way she was not the broody type. Up there in the pine needles her head just inches from another who she watched too wondering if he had understood the knock of her great tale against has she in as the place she had intended for some reason it's those distances I'm stuck on the football fields down their backs the near quarter mile of their height and the inches mere inches between their noses 2 heads private in their very own stratosphere a world of things to spurt out. Tongues. Is a predicament we all face of course but there is more interesting and less tiresome because it was about a lack of a clinical or air sac according to research by Center 2008 who found a hole in the fossil record where the voice box should be but little humans in there just the same all over the earth millions of them passing each other in a polite and Jurassic silence each canister of an opened so like us until the meteor descended and blew them all away. Which makes me think. Get downright dogmatic sorry. Let us not forget to speak to each other because we got the times we can. Remember. Though friends this has been so much fun tonight here in Sonoma County we have just a couple more tunes from the tallest man on Earth thank you so much for joining us this evening. After last bad. Language He's been with your. Kids. Call the slogan there is to. Leave this morning oh yes you. Drop of course in the rain. Bad as. Be. The sweet machine. Know when you use. Now. I must write me. Thank me thank you very much thank you thank you. I'm so curious when your when you're coming for the arrangements when you're coming up with the arrangements for these songs is this Do you have. The the goal of creating like an entire band out of that guitar yeah you do Ok you know because I've been playing so for 11 years and I started really small bars with just really really noisy so I just and I came from a rock background I was in garage bands that just I was climbing. The ceiling and I was out in the crowd and all the sudden I was there with a guitar and I just wanted to put on the same show. Working I mean you can hear like you know the bass drums the background singers of it it's all it's all there you get. On the upper end of the instrument incredible. And it would make for instance a backing band perspective backing band of yours quite nervous. And I hope I hope and I hope not because it's just it's not that I yeah the little basic. Player and the little drummer here it's not like they're good players I'm the guitar player there's a bunch of people in here but they're like they're not back you're right they're just the ones I am so like. The drummer is super on reliable he goes I go down all the time yeah. It's always trying to get you to go to the bar like right after the show and stay there until bus call the next morning or Oh definitely definitely he's yeah he's he's always on the way there he's actually always in the front see you know that's I am you know. All right well we're going to try we're going to try and get inside that head of yours. Here's some things lack good with hers. director Michael of Mandela thanks to the cab of life here Debra back out of new beds Richelle Rocky been looted and Tom Campbell. Jeppe Miller got Sound that good. A. View. From the Music Center at the University of. California thank you for listening. To a. Good night. Connecticut Public Radio is on n.p.r. One find it in the App Store. Just as the. Campaign commercials. So catch Morning Edition every day from n.p.r. News. This is public radio. Point 5. Point 3. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the Doris Duke's Charitable Foundation which provides unrestricted support to individual artists in jazz dance and theatre through the doors Duke artist awards you're connected to All Songs Considered I'm Bob Boilen. My God man Littlejohn's love makers are a couple kids I guess that like to make a little bit of love like to make a little at a music look at that that's a test just kidding it's a tale I don't care about most hobo Johnson entered the tiny desk contest in 2018 just like roughly 6000 other artist did only his video went viral there's been 16000000 views life has changed over the past few years for Frank Lopez Jr He and his band The love makers released their 1st major album a far cry from the album Frank made in his car after being kicked out of his house and the hobo Johnson and the love makers didn't win the Tiny Desk contest I did invite them to play a proper tiny desk on the day before his album release hobo Johnson is at n.p.r. West in Culver City California and I'm here in Washington d.c. We talk about his new album called The Fall of hobo Johnson and I asked him to play music that inspires him so on this edition of All Songs Considered hobo Johnson plays d.j. Do you know today is what's there. One year ago this very day we we put the Tiny Desk Concert out there yup Wow one year that's also I don't know exactly September 12th happened since. And you could tell me a story Frank. Cases one time I was doing this live performance this guy gave me Sco owns it was they were really good Did you actually eat one meal and no I didn't . But I knew they were you. Know I was so nervous I was the most nerve racking thing ever so I don't think I could muster to swallow any of any scones at the moment and it was sort of a blur Do you remember yeah I remember like I remember the whole time I was like why am I sweating so much. So you put out this new record the fall of Hope Johnson and I want to play for people give me an idea what you're up to this song that leads off the record it's it was I don't really need much to someplace. You you're such a lover of telling tales whether. If you. Were. From your thank you you know you read a well no. No I did not I was I thought you were in Shakespeare and I'm not.