Dick Connette

During the 1920s, banjo player and bandleader Charlie Poole helped engineer the sound of country music. (He also did a little moonshining on the side.) Poole’s life is the subject of a new album by singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III. Wainwright and producer Dick Connette join us to talk about High, ...

We consider the gravesites of forgotten famous people, the life cycle of the lowly mayfly (in a play by David Ives), and the staying power of music by Dick Connette and Sonya Cohen, from the band "Last Forever," who perform their music live in the studio.

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