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 […]
Nashville is Music City and every year some of the world’s best albums are made by the artists who live right here. Our WNXP DJs have put in the work listening to and championing so many great Nashville releases this year, it hurts to pick just one each. But here are some of our favorites. […]
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 […]
Keyon Harrold has showcased his trumpet playing for various artists in the studio and on the road, most notably rapper Jay-Z on his 2007 hit “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is).” The trumpeter from Ferguson, Missouri started playing around the age of six studying the greats from Miles Davis to Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. […]
The inspiration for this themed show (which then turned into two shows) was the new Sufjan Stevens record Javelin and its return to heart-swelling choral parts that emphasize the emotion in Stevens’ lyrics. Who knew that songs featuring choirs could span so many genres and generations over two hours of your requests? You can hear […]
WNXP listeners have been bumping to LP Giobbi’s tune “Can’t Let You Go” for several months now – the warm, beachy dance track from her debut record Light Places is one of my most played of the year, to be sure. But thousands (millions?) more music fans now recognize this artist’s name thanks to the […]