Episode #104
Some Folks Singing-The Undead
Friday, March 25, 1988
Joan Baez teams with Peter (PDQ Bach) Schickele for a moving song based on a text by e.e. cummings. Inuit Eskimo women sing into each other's throats: the results are probably not what you'd expect. Also, music based on the vocal styles of the Celtic, British, Greek, East African, Indian and Indonesian folk traditions. And more.
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Sometime in the eighties you played a recording - it sounded almost like a drunk on the street singing - of a song with a line like "Jesus' love will never save me." That's probably not the exact line but the recording haunts me. Is it in the archives?
Thanks.
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