Jimmy Webb - Sunday Breakfast - 2013
For five decades Jimmy Webb's songs have been part of the soundtrack of our lives. On his latest CD, "Still Within the Sound of My Voice," he revisits some of his classics (along with some lesser-known gems) in duets with folks like Lyle Lovett, Joe Cocker, Crosby & Nash, and Brian Wilson. Jimmy paid a return visit to the Sunday Breakfast to perform a couple songs from the CD and to share thoughts about his collaborations, as well as the medical struggles his friends and colleagues have faced.
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J.D. Souther - Words and Music - 2011
He wrote some of the biggest California country-rock hits of the '70s, and now J.D. Souther has released a few of them on a sparsely-produced new album called Natural History.
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Bobby McFerrin - Sunday Breakfast - 2013
I was thrilled and honored to have Bobby bring a band of amazing musicians into Studio A to perform songs from the CD and also talk with me about his father's influence, his onetime desire to be a monk(!), the power of music as a healing force, and "Don't Worry, Be Happy" as words to live by.
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Rosanne Cash - Words and Music - 2006
'Black Cadillac' may be her most recent CD, but tonight Rosanne Cash joins John Platt in Studio A for a conversation that ranges far beyond the album, into music, writing, family, parenting, and more.
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Tony Bennett
If anyone can be considered a true American treasure, it's Tony Bennett, whose 90th birthday is August 3. He's also a mensch who remains remarkably humble about his unique talent.
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John Prine
In the wake of the heartbreaking passing of John Prine from Covid-19, I came across an interview I had done with him in 1987 while I was producing "Mixed Bag." It's good to have this memento of John's humility and humor.
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Dr. John - Words and Music
R.I.P. Dr. John. A Southern-fried mensch, a righteous musician for all seasons, a vital link in the New Orleans tradition.
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Leon Redbone
R.I.P. Leon Redbone. One of music's truly idiosyncratic and inscrutable performers has died. Nobody's sure what his real name was or when he was born.
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Linda Ronstadt
For more than 40 years Linda Ronstadt enjoyed an astonishingly wide-ranging musical career—evolving from country and rock songs to the American popular songbook, traditional Mexican tunes, even opera.
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