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Peter One brought a global understanding of country music to his Nashville second act

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...

Peter One Comes Home: Watch Him Live at WNXP

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...

Playlist: Peter One collects his globe-spanning sources of inspiration

“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.”...

T Bone Burnett makes the soundtrack to his life

In 2001 T Bone Burnett won a Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for the playlist that he put together for...

Nashville Artist of the Month

NASHVILLE ARTIST OF THE MONTH Supported by March 2026 LANGHORNE SLIM January 2026 WILLIS February 2026 Venus & the Flytraps 2025 November 2025 Henry J. star October 2025 Snooper September...

WNXP DJ’s Favorite Nashville Albums of 2023

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...

Aw, tweet tweet: Songs about birds

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...

New Music Experience: Favorites So Far – Nashville 2023

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...

How a nurse in Nashville may have formed Africa’s first muscian’s union

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...

NPR Music’s 125 Best Songs of 2025

From the breakout Brooklyn band Geese to the Puerto Rican star and soon-to-be Super Bowl halftime performer Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the...

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