Today on Why Music Matters, I’m hanging out with my old friend, singer, songwriter, and true believer in the power of rock ’n’ roll to lift our spirits and enrich our lives, Willie Nile.
Praised by The New York Times as “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to have emerged rom the New York scene,” Nile was born in Buffalo, but moved to New York City decades back, where he launched a career that would eventually make fans of the likes of Bono from U2, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend of The Who, and Lou Reed, many of whom Nile has shared the stage with over the years.
Join us as Willie shares stories from a life that, in many ways, reads like a rock ’n roll fairytale.
Today on Why Music Matters, my guest is Peter Conners, musicologist, novelist, Grateful Dead scholar and a hero of mine for the way he has devoted his life to exploring the connection between the majesty of music and the power of the written word.
Whether it’s his nonfiction works, like Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deahead, Cornell 77: The Music, the Myth and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall, and White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, or his recent novel, Merch Table Blues, Peter’s writing reads like my favorite music sounds.
Join us as Peter shares some insight on getting shown the light in the strangest of places!
Lowest of the Low - Henry Needs a New Pair of Shoes - Live at Town Ballroom in Buffa-LOW, NY on November 24, 2023 - Playlist of all of my Lowest of the Low and Ron Hawkins videos over the years - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXEVFdlDyJ38NUlTZBqF5uFNc7ILV8Ara
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Recorded at Impaxx, Buffalo, NY, USA, May 18th, 1993.
Metropolis Pt. I (0:08)
Under A Glass Moon (9:53)
Status Seeker w/Get Funky intro (17:25)
Wait For Sleep (22:42)
Surrounded (25:21)
Puppies On Acid (31:16)
Take The Time /Auto-Chorus (32:38)
To Live Forever (41:42)
Another Day (52:31)
Pull Me Under (57:06)
Learning To Live (1:05:28)
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