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This is FRESH AIR. I m Sam Briger, sitting in for Terry Gross. Loudon Wainwright is best known for his confessional songs about family dysfunction and satirical songs about politics and other issues. But last year he took a slight turn, teaming up with Vince Giordano for a set of songs from the 20s and 30s, songs by Fats Waller, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser and others. Giordano plays tuba, bass and bass saxophone and leads the 11-piece jazz band The Nighthawks. Before this project, he and Wainwright collaborated on the HBO gangster series Boardwalk Empire about bootlegging in Atlantic City during Prohibition. Terry invited them to bring their instruments to Hobo Sound Studio in New Jersey to talk and play a few tunes - socially distanced, of course. The title of their album is I d Rather Lead A Band. Here s a track from it.
New-jerseyUnited-statesAtlantic-cityFats-wallerFrank-loesserJustin-changCliff-edwardsWalt-disneyJames-frazeeLoudon-wainwrightTerry-grossVince-giordanoJust like another one of the lovers who fueled Taylor Swiftâs musical themes and schemes, I was seduced, sedated and stuck on Swift with on first listening of âFolklore.â
With an opening piano introduction straight out of a Bruce Hornsby playbook, seamstress Swift spins yarns that stitch her regrets, âWhat ifs?â and âWhat could have beensâ of lost loves into a warm narrative cardigan sweater that everyone would love to wear.
Composed and recorded in a year of quarantine, lockdown and postponed concerts, Swift writes and sings about previous lovers and affairs from high school home rooms to her current four-year relationship with actor Joe Alwyn. He is Swiftâs songwriting partner listed as William Bowery on three songs on âFolklore,â from Republic Records.
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