Terry Gross
speaker
23,660 appearances
401 recordings
17 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Terry Gross’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And anytime somebody enters your brain for surgery, it's really, really risky.
Yeah.
Were you terrified
What about the recovery on the other end?
I mean, you're so steeped in your senses in writing, which you do a lot of, both songs and books.
You're completing a memoir now in listening, which you do a lot of, in singing.
So, I mean, were your senses altered in a way that was either interesting or disturbing after the surgery during the period of
What does that
You know, you mentioned that before the surgery you had headaches, like really severe headaches.
I find that the one time when I can't enjoy music, when I want nothing to do with music, is when I have a bad headache.
And when I think of you going through a long period, right, when you had these bad headaches, how did you do music?
Did you have any room in your head where it was pleasurable to make or listen to music?
Well, I think we should hear another song from your new CD, The List.
And I thought this might be a good spot to hear 500 Miles.
And I have to say, I was telling you this before we started the interview.
If I went through the rest of my life never hearing this song again, I'd be fine, I thought, until I heard your version.
You know, I think so many of us know the Peter, Paul, and Mary version, which we heard so many times.
Mm-hmm.
When I was learning folk guitar and doing a terrible job at it, this was one of the songs that I learned to massacre, which is part of the reason why I could go through the rest of my life not hearing it again.
But you do this like desolate version of it.
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