Home is a theme that comes up a lot in folk and country music, but not usually in the clear-eyed, complex way that Peter One invokes it during “Birds Go Die Out of Sight (Don’t Go Home).” “Don’t go home,” he implores, sounding reedy and slightly plaintive over a lazily swinging shuffle. “There’s nothing for […]
Peter One‘s musical journey is unlike any other. The singer, songwriter left his home in Cote d’Ivoire amid political unrest and civil war in the 2000s and moved to Nashville after a successful career as a recording artist in Africa. It’s now been 30 years since he last released music, but his latest album Come […]
“Don’t go home,” Peter One pleads gently during “Birds Go Die Out of Sight,” the final track on his new album, Come Back To Me. “There’s nothing for you there.” In a literal sense, the singer-songwriter, who began his life in Cote d’Ivoire and has called Nashville home for roughly the last decade, is recounting […]
In honor of the legions of little purple Martins nested and taking flight in downtown Nashville this time of year (on their annual pilgrimage south), we did two weeks of Thematic Static filled with songs about birds. End of August shows can be streamed here (👇), and the listener who requested the song is named, […]
We’re not big on “Best Of” lists for all the obvious reasons (inevitable cultural bias, music as competition, unequal comparisons etc) but it is useful, and fun, to take a moment and look back on the year in music so far. It has been an incredibly deep one for releases by Nashville-based artists and while […]
Peter One is a quiet, mild mannered nurse in his 60’s who makes music that is gentile and full of beauty. But he is also responsible for what may have been Africa’s first musician’s union. “I got the idea from the teachers union,” says One. In the late 1980’s Peter One was living on the […]
“I was told by the world I wasn’t allowed to write classic country, even though I’d written so much of it and I loved doing it,” Mya Byrne says of her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy, which melds her punk sensibility with polished songwriting
Nashville’s music community expressed empathy, anger and frustration in the wake of a deadly school shooting that took the lives of three children and three adult staff members this morning. Our sister station, WPLN, has ongoing coverage of the shooting with reaction from local and state officials. We surveyed Twitter and Instagram for the conversations […]
On the birthday of my one and only sibling, my brother Miles, I played all bands that include blood brothers. In some cases multiple sets and in some cases TWINS! Your requests were numerous and thoughtful, so please enjoy the archived show and also the names of the brothers, which might come in handy at […]
This week has been a bittersweet victory for De La Soul fans. The groundbreaking trio’s first six albums are finally available on streaming services but only after generations had to wait for the music to be digitally available due to rights issues around sampling. The group were finally able to “clear” that hurdle after working […]