Sam Brigger
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1,127 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6 Jun
Sam Brigger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Would you still be wearing that necklace that's made of elk hair?
Yeah.
Let's hear a little bit of Alaska.
That's Maggie Rogers' song Alaska. You know, Maggie, I'm not sure if it's because the song is called Alaska, but there's always something about the song that like for me feels like there's a coolness to it, like there's cold winds blowing. And I don't know if it's related to this, but you've said that you have synesthesia and the music has a color to you.
And so you often when you're writing, you create these like color mood boards for your songs. Could you describe that?
And sparse, too, kind of.
Did that also help in order to assert yourself in those situations? Would people try to get you to record things in different ways, but you had all these different ways of showing that you were really in command of these songs and that these were your creations and you knew what was best for them?
Well, Maggie Rogers, thanks so much for coming on Fresh Air.
Our next guest is the co-founder of the Riot Grrrl movement, musician, writer, and artist Kathleen Hanna. Her new memoir is called Rebel Grrrl, which is also the name of one of the best-known songs by her band Bikini Kill. Kathleen Hanna recently spoke about her life and work with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado.
We're listening to the interview Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado recorded with Kathleen Hanna, co-founder of the bands Bikini Kill and La Tigra. Her new memoir is called Rebel Girl. We'll hear more of their conversation after a break. I'm Sam Brigger, and this is Fresh Air Weekend.
This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger. Back with more of our interview with Kathleen Hanna. She's the frontwoman of the bands Bikini Kill and La Tigra. She helped form the Riot Grrrl movement, challenging the sexist punk scene in the 1990s. Her songs took on sexual assault, misogyny, and female empowerment. Her memoir is called Rebel Girl, My Life as a Feminist Punk.
She spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado.
Kathleen Hanna spoke with Fresh Air's Anne-Marie Baldonado. Her memoir is called Rebel Girl, My Life as a Feminist Punk. Fresh Air Weekend is produced by Teresa Madden. Fresh Air's executive producer is Danny Miller. For Terry Gross and Tanya Mosley, I'm Sam Brigger.
Fresh Air · Best Of: Folk Musician Jerron Paxton / Lyricist Ira Gershwin's Legacy · 6 Dec 2024
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From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Sam Brigger with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, folk musician Jerron Paxton brings some instruments to play for our conversation. He plays guitar, banjo, and harmonica. Paxton is known for performing music from the 1920s, but he just came out with an album of his own songs called Things Done Changed.
Also, Terry talks with author Michael Owen about Ira Gershwin, the lyricist behind many of the most enduring songs in the Great American Popular Songbook. Songs like Fascinating Rhythm, I Got Rhythm, Swonderful, Embraceable You, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, and They Can't Take That Away from Me. He has a new book about Gershwin.
And TV critic David Bianculli reviews a new Beatles documentary on Disney+. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger. Prior to his new album, Jerron Paxton has been entertaining audiences with his take on music that's mostly 100 years old or older. Some of the music dates back to the Civil War.
He plays folk music, blues, hot jazz, ragtime, and fiddle and banjo tunes, among others. He's released several albums, but this new album, Things Done Changed, is his first where all the tracks were written by him.
Songs that are deeply rooted to music of the 20s and 30s and older, but reflects Paxton's contemporary feelings and observations about things like love, lost and found, gentrification, and finding yourself far from home. Paxton was generous enough to bring some of the instruments he plays to the studio today. If he had brought all the instruments he plays, he would have had to rent a van.
Guitar, fiddle, piano, harmonica, banjo, and the bones is not even a complete list. Paxton, who is 35, grew up in Los Angeles near Watts and has called himself a throwback in a family of throwbacks. He now lives in New York. Let's hear the title track from the new album. This is Things Done Changed.
That's the song Things Done Changed from the new album by Jerron Paxson of the same name. Jerron Paxson, welcome so much to Fresh Air.
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