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August 14, 2015

Max Frost // Nakia

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

In this episode of “This Song” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Max Frost and Nakia to talk about songs that helped them find their artistic voices.

You can hear Max Frost’s studio 1A Performance from June 6, 2015 here

You can see the video of Nakia singing with Sharon Jones here

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July 30, 2015

Laura Marling // Todd Wolfson

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

In this Episode of “This Song,” host Elizabeth McQueen sits down with singer-songwriter Laura Marling and photographer Todd Wolfson to talk about songs that gave them a greater understanding of freedom and transcendence.

You can hear Laura Marling’s Studio 1A performance here.

You can download Laura Marling’s cover of Towne’s Van Zandt’s “For the Sake of the Song” as part of our “Song of the Day” feature here.

You can check out the work of Todd V Wolfson here.

You can find out when the next Todd Family Music Series at Monkeynest Coffee is here.

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July 17, 2015

Crooks

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with most of the members of  the Austin outlaw country band Crooks. Guitar player Ryan Goebel, Trumpet and percussion player Doug Day, accordion player Anthony Ortiz Junior, drummer Joey Bybee and songwriter/guitar player Josh Mazor all talk about all the various influences they bring to their raucous mix of country, rock and conjunto.

Crooks have a new record out called Wildfire, and might be coming to your town to play a show!  You can check out their tour schedule here.

Listen to the Crooks live Studio 1A performance here.

You can download the live version of “Fork in the Road” here as part of our “Song of the Day” Series.  If you want a cool new song delivered to you daily you can subscribe to “Song of the Day” on iTunes here.

You can listen to the Crooks “My KUTX” guest DJ set here.

You can listen to the “Austin Music Minute” about the Crooks CD release party here.  And you can subscribe to the “Austin Music Minute” here.

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July 3, 2015

Brennen Leigh // Noel McKay // Lisa Pankratz

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with country music collaborators Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay to talk about musical experiences they had as kids that are still influencing their lives today. And she talks to drummer Lisa Pankratz about a classic song that inspires the way she approaches her music.

You can check out Brennen Leigh’s Indiegogo campaign for the project where she sings the songs of Lefty Frizzel here.

You can listen to the songs from Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay’s studio 1A Session here

You can listen to Noel McKay’s MyKUTX DJ set here.

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June 18, 2015

John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

This week guest interviewer Bill Childs, host of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child,  sits down with John Flansburgh and John Linnell from They Might Be Giants to hear about the impact of the Batman theme and a evolving charm of a song from a record inspired by the Pogo cartoon. Along the way they also chat about kid record  collections and the power of riffs and lyrics.

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child airs Sunday nights at 6pm on KUTX.

And here is the They Might Be Giants performance from May 14th, 2015 in Studio 1A.

For those you who want to hear the original Pussywillows version of Hillbilly Drummer Girl, here it is!

And here is the TMBG video of their version of “Whence that Wince.”

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June 5, 2015

Toro y Moi // Gordon Moakes

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth sits down with Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi aka Les Sins,  and  Gordon Moakes, who played bass with Bloc Party and now plays with Young Legionnaire. He also has a podcast called Exploded Drawing, where artists talk about one of their favorite 90’s records. Both musicians spoke about songs and records that showed them the possibilities of where they could take their music.

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May 20, 2015

Hal Ketchum // Pokey Lafarge

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

On this episode of “This Song,” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Hal Ketchum to hear how the music of Van Morrison has inspired him since his days as a teenage drummer playing rowdy clubs.  And Pokey LaFarge talks about how Lefty Frizzel’s imperfect yet compelling singing influenced his own music.

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March 30, 2015

This Song: Magna Carda

This Song

By: Elizabeth McQueen

On this episode of This Song, Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Magna Carda — Megz Kelli, Dougie Do, Eric Nikolaides, Derek Van Wagner and Michael Gonzales — and hears about each of their important songs–everything from the Soulquarians to Sir Duke.

Magna Carda has a new record out called Like it Is, which you can download for free from Bandcamp.

This Song was recorded by Cliff Hargrove and edited and produced by Elizabeth McQueen with help from David Sanger. The theme song is “Mahout” by Hard Proof.

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