Ken Tucker
speaker
453 appearances
27 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 17 Sep
Ken Tucker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Both Glasby and the Womack sisters are women who've been put to the test by men who resist understanding their pain and their power.
They know that relationships are a lot more complicated than victim and victimizer, and use their work to untangle these snarled dynamics to better understand and explain themselves to us.
Much of the Womack sisters' self-titled new album is filled with music that harks back to the days of classic soul and R&B.
It's in their blood.
Their parents are Linda and Cecil Womack, who made beautiful rhythm and blues under the name Womack and Womack.
Their uncle, Bobby Womack, possessed the gravelly voice that powered hits like Lookin' for a Love and Across 110th Street.
And their grandfather was the gospel and soul great Sam Cooke.
Now, these three sisters, BG, Kucha, and Zimani, are looking to shape the kind of music they grew up hearing for a contemporary audience that doesn't know or care about their illustrious roots.
a song called Chauffeur, whose title works as a job description and a metaphor.
Apparently, the Womack sisters took a number of jobs over the years to finance their recording, including doing some Uber driving.
The lyric is about taking control of one's career, no longer being a passenger, getting behind the wheel.
While this new release is being positioned as the sisters' debut, I've been aware of various songs and EPs they've released over the past decade, and what strikes me about this album is that it's got their best songwriting, and for the first time, they transcend nostalgia.
Yes, the music is rooted in 1960s soul, but their crisp, tight harmonies possess an urgency and immediacy that speaks to the world we're living in right now.
In contrast to the Womack sisters' impeccable harmonies, I give you Margaret Glaspie's voice, ringingly alone, as her piece is interrupted by a former lover who suddenly appears at the end of her driveway.
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That song, called Michigan, leads off Margaret Glaspie's new album called I Am Both.
On it, Glaspie acts as a chronicler of doubt, hesitation, misgiving, of the emotions that can grind a relationship to a halt.
She keeps circling back to the word nothing.
Doing nothing is something I do too well, she sings on one song.
In another, she describes a couple stuck in a rut.
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