Melhores podcasts sobre Annie Willis (2024)

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The Christmas Blues with Jontavious Willis 41:48

11d ago41:48

41:48

This week I'm talking with blues artist Jontavious Willis, who recently released his album West Georgia Blues. I wanted to talk to Jontavious not because of his Christmas music--he doesn't have any yet--but because he's doing something that I've been trying to pay attention to as people make contemporary music in traditional forms. We go a little l…

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A Cajun Christmas at the Holiday with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys 46:11

18d ago46:11

46:11

This season has featured surf Christmas music, calypso Christmas music, Sicilian Christmas music and smooth jazz Christmas music, so it can't be too much of a surprise that we finally get to Cajun Christmas music. I think Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are an important band as they picked up the work of maintaining endangered musical traditions…

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Mindy Smith 50:56

25d ago50:56

50:56

Americana artist Mindy Smith has been referred to on 12 Songs before. At some point in the COVID years I talked about my love of "Santa Will Find You" from her 2007 album My Holiday, and last year when I talked to The Indigo Girls, we talked about the song "It Really Is (a Wonderful Life,)" which they recorded. It turns out it was written by Chely …

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Behind the Christmas Songs with Annie Zaleski 54:04

1M ago54:04

54:04

Music journalist Annie Zaleski returns to 12 Songs this week. She last appeared in 2022 to talk about Wham!'s "Last Christmas." In 2023, she wrote This is Christmas Song by Song: The Stories Behind 100 Holiday Hits, so she's back to talk about a few of the songs she wrote about. In the episode, we talk about the Kate Bush Christmas special and the …

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A Drive-By Truckers Christmas with Patterson Hood 48:01

2M ago48:01

48:01

I've long believed that if you can't get a good interview out of the Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood, you should hang up your keyboard and mic. The Truckers are a richly layered project with the loud guitars and pounding drums used to drive a lot of meatheaded lyrics instead supporting subtle storytelling that deals class and race as well as rock…

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Boney James 33:04

2M ago33:04

33:04

Saxophone player Boney James has two Christmas albums, Boney's Funky Christmas and Christmas Present. Both make sense as the place where jazz and R&B meet, and that was transparently the case when he recorded his first album, Trust, in 1992. We talk about those early years in addition to his Christmas music, and we discussed having an album of new …

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Calypso Christmas with Charlie and the Tropicales 45:24

2M ago45:24

45:24

Our surf Christmas episode inadvertently laid the groundwork for this week’s, which focuses largely on Calypso Christmas music. New Orleans’ Charlie and the Tropicales released Presents for Everyone, an album of Calypso Christmas songs, in 2023. This week I’m talking to trombone player and bandleader Charlie Halloran about the album, Calypso Christ…

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Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick (an encore presentation) 40:31

2M ago40:31

40:31

In 2021, I interviewed Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, a band I've only grown to appreciate more over the years. They released their first three albums--Cheap Trick, In Color and Heaven Tonight--in 18 months, and Dream Police followed a whole year later. They toured constantly at the time, which makes that productivity all the more impressive. In 201…

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A UFO-Friendly, Spotify-Protesting Christmas with The Pocket Gods 49:18

2M ago49:18

49:18

I don’t usually get to end a conversation on Christmas music with memories of radio legend Art Bell and his late night deep dive into the paranormal, After Dark with Art Bell. But that’s what happened when I talked to Mark Christopher Lee of the British lo-fi indie rock band The Pocket Gods. It took a lot of discipline not to end the show with Afte…

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“La Notti Triunfanti” with Michela Musolino 47:15

3M ago47:15

47:15

Michela Mussolino introduced me to a new body of Christmas music this week. The New Jersey-born Memphis resident specializes in Sicilian folk music, and she recorded an album of predominantly Sicilian Christmas songs in 2022 on La Notti Triunfanti. We talk about how someone arrives at that specialty, the deep history behind some of these songs, and…

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Surf Christmas with Hunter King 1:10:32

3M ago1:10:32

1:10:32

I have so little surf Christmas music in my collection that I turned to WTUL DJ Hunter King, host of "Storm Surge of Reverb" to see if there was a substantial body of surf Christmas music. As I expected, the answer is yes. We talk about old and new Christmas surf, Hunter's relationship to Christmas music, and vinyl because it almost goes without sa…

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Whamageddon! 53:59

3M ago53:59

53:59

The new season of Twelve Songs starts with an interview with Thomas Mertz, one of the founders of the social media game Whamageddon. To win the game, you must go from December 1 to Christmas without hearing Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Hear it and you're out. People play on social media on the honor system, but for Mertz, the fun is in the way the gam…

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Season Seven Starts Soon 3:31

4M ago3:31

3:31

Last Christmas, I promised that 12 Songs would return with Christmas in July 2024. Since July 25 falls on a Thursday, it seemed like an appropriate day to return with the first episode of the new season. Here are a few notes on the upcoming season including a song that hints at a direction we'll go in the first month.…

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New Orleans Hip-Hop for Christmas with Raj Smoove and 504icygrl 40:14

10M ago40:14

40:14

Season six of 12 Songs comes to a close with some of the highlights from the 2023 holiday season and a conversation with DJ/producer/business guy Raj Smoove and rapper/producer 504icygrl about the new Christmas in New Orleans EP. Raj and Icy talk about Christmas, community, business, and the historically awkward fit between hip-hop and Christmas mu…

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Mother Mother ”Cry Christmas” 35:10

11M ago35:10

35:10

Today's show is a lot about the backstage of the music business as the Vancouver-based alternative rock band Mother Mother talks about finding a darker angle on Christmas music with "Cry Christmas" and their version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." This week Ryan Guldemond of the band and I talk about how a rock band finds a way to do C…

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Christmas Down Under with Imogen Clark 43:59

11M ago43:59

43:59

This holiday season, Imogen Clark released "Not Christmas Here," talking about how all the wintery signs that Christmas is coming don't mean as much to her because she's from Australia. In the Southern Hemisphere, it's hot in December and white wine is their egg nog. The song is a bit of looking ahead for Clark because she’s moving to the States ne…

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”Holly Happy Days” with The Indigo Girls 46:38

11M ago46:38

46:38

This episode has been a few years in the making, but I was finally able to find a quiet moment in the busy lives of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of The Indigo Girls. In 2010, they released Holly Happy Days, a holiday album that's very much an Indigo Girls album with their musical, personal, social and spiritual values shaping the songs in the way that…

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”A Dave Brubeck Christmas” with Matt Lemmler 54:58

11M ago54:58

54:58

Unfortunately, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck is no longer around to talk about his 1996 solo piano album A Dave Brubeck Christmas. Craft Recordings reissued the album this Christmas season, but Brubeck died in 2012 so I asked New Orleans piano player Matt Lemmler to help me get a handle on the album. The resulting conversation is a deep dive into Brube…

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Merry Christmas from Japan with ”Holly Jolly Xmasu” 46:13

12M ago46:13

46:13

I listened to one episode of Scott Leopold's "Holly Jolly Xmasu" podcast and I was sold. As a Stereolab and High Llamas fan, I felt like there had to be a High Llamas Christmas song, and Scott found one on Christmas Songs, which also included a great Bossa nova version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," a very unusual jazz piano take on "Sleigh Ride…

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Christmas with the Blue Man Group 1:12:28

12M ago1:12:28

1:12:28

Blue Man Group started in 1987 as a performance art concept by guys who also harbored rock 'n' roll dreams. It has grown into an institution that has ongoing shows in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York and Berlin. As of October, Blue Man Group now also has a Christmas EP, Overjoy to the World. Today Blue Man composer Jeff Turlik and performer Bhu…

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You've Got Mail 1:28:07

12M ago1:28:07

1:28:07

"Don't cry, Shopgirl. Don't cry." In this episode , we take a nostalgic trip back to 1998, when AOL and dial-up connections reigned supreme, and cyber communication was an emerging phenomenon. Exploring the film's captivating storyline, we'll unravel the unique charm that has made "You've Got Mail" a fan favorite for over two decades.…

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A Soul Christmas with Eli ”Paperboy” Reed 46:40

1y ago46:40

46:40

I love when episodes overlap. Today, soul singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed talks about--among other things--his love of Huey "Piano" Smith's Christmas album, which we recently featured. Reed has a new album, Hits and Misses: The Singles on YepRoc Records, and today we're talking about that and his Christmas music, including a snappy version of "Last Chri…

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) 1:15:14

1y ago1:15:14

1:15:14

"My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love--I love--I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on." Annie and Patrick watch the adaptation of the classic literary novel.…

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A D.C.Go-Go Christmas with Chuck Brown 37:53

1y ago37:53

37:53

Chuck Brown has been dubbed "The Godfather of Go-Go," the distinctive Washington D.C.-based funk sound that has its own aesthetics and culture. This week, New Orleans' musicologist and go-go aficionado Melissa Weber shines some light on go-go and Brown because in 1999, he released The Spirit of Christmas. Weber is an archivist at Tulane University,…

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The Notebook 1:26:36

1y ago1:26:36

1:26:36

"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday." Patrick and Annie watch and review the classic film "The Notebook"Por Patrick Willis

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A New Orleans R&B Christmas with Huey ”Piano” Smith 52:24

1y ago52:24

52:24

New Orleans venerates its R&B royalty from the early days of rock 'n' roll, and many of them stayed active until they died, including Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Eddie Bo, Snooks Eaglin and Earl King. Huey "Piano" Smith was not one of them; he lived the last third of his life until his death earlier this year out of the limelight. Since Smith also r…

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”Christmas Cocktails” with Brad Ross-MacLeod 1:05:25

1y ago1:05:25

1:05:25

Capitol Records tried to cash in on the '90s lounge revival with its "Ultra-Lounge" series--albums that pulled tracks from the label's vaults that fell under some of the umbrellas that came to associated with lounge including crooners, mambos, space-age sounds, and tiki bar music. In 1996, it released Christmas Cocktails, with series compiler Brad …

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Sara Noelle 52:46

1y ago52:46

52:46

The name "Sara Noelle" sounds like something made up for Christmas music, but she had been a recording artist since 2010, 10 years before she released her first Christmas track, "Christmas at Sea." Since 2020, the ambient folk artist has made a tradition of releasing new Christmas music each year, and it's not a reach to think her songs would make …

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The Christmas Music Manfesto 22:29

1y ago22:29

22:29

In 2018 when I launched Twelve Songs, I published "The 12 Songs Manifesto," a statement of my core beliefs about Christmas music. Now that we're in our sixth season and have a lot of listeners who weren't around back then, I thought it was worth revisiting and documenting in podcast form. I flesh out my thoughts, add a few and revise a few that no …

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”Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” 39:29

1y ago39:29

39:29

Chris Marchand's blog post "On the Importance of Sad Christmas Songs" makes the argument its title promises, using "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as Exhibit A. Podcaster and writer Chris Marchand last appeared on Twelve Songs to break down Sufjan Stevens' Christmas albums, and this week he returns to talk about "Have Yourself a Merry Litt…

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”Santa Claus is Coming to Town” Pt. 2 13:54

1+ y ago13:54

13:54

Last week, I started the story of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," taking the song from being written by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots, to the first version by banjo player/bandleader Harry Reser, to the version that popularized the song by Eddie Cantor. This week, the song grows up with the help of Phil Spector, The Crystals, and Bruce Springs…

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”Santa Claus is Coming to Town” Pt. 1 13:46

1+ y ago13:46

13:46

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is an orphan, a Christmas song without a singer attached. "White Christmas" has Bing Crosby, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" has Andy Williams, and "Happy Holidays" has Peggy Lee. But who sang the early version of the Christmas classic that casts a shadow over all the versions that follow? Nobody. This wee…

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OutKast’s ”Player’s Ball” 39:15

1+ y ago39:15

39:15

"Player's Ball" is a contemporary Christmas classic, but it's not very Christmas-y by design. Today, Big Boi of OutKast talks about why the song is the way it is, and how it ended up being the first solo release from the group. After that, we have an encore segment from 2018. At the time, I talked to writer David Dennis Jr. about the song. Today, D…

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The ”Santa Baby” Story 16:12

1+ y ago16:12

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In 2021, I talked with music journalist Alison Fensterstock and singers Dayna Kurtz and Alexandra Scott about versions of Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby." That was a good conversation, but I still had questions and found some of my answers in other less famous Christmas songs recorded by Kitt. Those songs and some others in her repertoire filled in some…

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Terre Roche of The Roches 53:31

2y ago53:31

53:31

The Roches' 1990 We Three Kings is the Christmas album you'd expect from the folk trio as sing a set of holiday classics gorgeously, often a cappella, and occasionally with their tongues ever so delicately in their cheeks. Terre Roche remembers their Christmas shows, the Caroling Carolers, and getting shooed off the sidewalk in front of Trump Tower…

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Indie Christmas Music with Amerigo Gazaway, Charlie Darling, and ”Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas” 1:22:53

2y ago1:22:53

1:22:53

This week's episode features indie Christmas music--indie hip-hop with DJ and producer Amerigo Gazaway, British indie rock with Les Bicyclettes de Belsize's Charlie Darling, and British music journalist Kevin McGrath, who compiled 108 indie Christmas tracks for Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volume 1 and Volume 2. All of their music is avail…

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The Smithereens and ChristmasUnderground.com 1:14:15

2y ago1:14:15

1:14:15

With Christmas approaching, it's time when I have more good conversations than I have weeks until December 25. Today, I have two conversations that I really enjoyed, one with Dennis Diken of rock band The Smithereens, and one with Jim Goodwin, who runs the indie rock Christmas website ChristmasUnderground.com. The Smithereens' 2007 Christmas album …

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Joss Stone 29:46

2y ago29:46

29:46

British pop/soul singer Joss Stone released Merry Christmas, Love earlier this year, and it's a bit of a departure for her as she set out to make a "posh" album, something on the surface very different from the music she's known for. It's still very much a personal project, down to the influence of her daughter and the son she was pregnant with whi…

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Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips - An Encore Presentation 1:02:02

2y ago1:02:02

1:02:02

In 2020, I had a good conversation with Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips about the surprising amount of Christmas music they have, starting with Atlas Eets Christmas, which they recorded and credited to "Imagene Peise." We talked about that album's origins, which make sense when you hear them, as well as the Christmas on Mars project and a host of …

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Children’s Music at Christmas with Laurie Berkner 41:29

2y ago41:29

41:29

Laurie Berkner had one of those days when we got together to talk. A plumber came to work on her bathroom while we did our interview, and his work is the occasional backdrop for our conversation. Still, the children's music artist talked at length about the making of her second Christmas album, Another Laurie Berkner Christmas, and the way making m…

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Low and ”Just Like Christmas”- an Encore Presentation 45:51

2y ago45:51

45:51

In 2020, I interviewed Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of the indie rock band Low, whose 1999 album Christmas is one of the great indie Christmas albums, and a bold one because rock bands didn't record Christmas music at the time--at least not like that. Maybe they'd contribute a track to a label promo compilation, but they wouldn't tie their financi…

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”A Charlie Brown Christmas” with Derrick Bang 49:23

2y ago49:23

49:23

Vince Guaraldi scholar Derrick Bang wrote the liner notes for the 2022 Super Deluxe edition of the soundtrack for A Charlie Brown Christmas, and this week he talks about the 1965 cartoon, Guaraldi, and the soundtrack album sessions included in the digital and CD packages. The digital version is out now and up on streaming platforms, and it includes…

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Bruce Cockburn 47:28

2y ago47:28

47:28

Last year, Canadian folk artist Bruce Cockburn belated launched a tour celebrating 50 years in music. When we ran an excerpt from this interview last Christmas season, we started off talking about the tour. Since he's not on tour now, I cut some of that material but did start with a conversation on how someone with 50-plus years in the business rel…

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Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones 48:43

2y ago48:43

48:43

In 2008, the garage rock legends The Fleshtones released a Christmas album, Stocking Stuffer, and in true Fleshtones fashion, they made Christmas sound like them. Since 1976, they have delivered a brand of garage rock influenced by punk, R&B and soul with more than a hint of glam in their style and sound. In this interview from 2021, singer Peter Z…

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José James 41:37

2y ago41:37

41:37

One of my favorite Christmas albums of 2021 was Merry Christmas from José James, which featured the jazz vocalist in a classic quartet that included pianist Aaron Parks. We talked in 2021 and ran part of the conversation last holiday season, but we covered a lot of ground, some of it COVID-related but a lot of it focused on James and the way he bri…

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Julian Koster and His Singing Saws 54:54

2y ago54:54

54:54

The world met Julian Koster as part of the Elephant 6 Collective in the 1990s, when he played a variety of instruments with Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, and his own projects, The Music Tapes and The Orbiting Human Circus. In 2008, he released The Singing Saw at Christmastime, and part of the conceit is that the saws actuall…

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Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills 55:41

2y ago55:41

55:41

The Cowsills answer a number of pop culture trivia questions, starting with "What real life family pop band inspired the 1970 television show, The Partridge Family?" They had hits with "The Rain, The Park, and Other Things"--best known for the refrain, "I love the flower girl"--and "Hair," but the experience took a toll on family members, particula…

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Filmmaker Mitchell Kezin and ”Jingle Bell Rocks!” 59:44

2y ago59:44

59:44

Documentary filmmaker Mitchell Kezin released the movie Jingle Bell Rocks! in 2013. In it, he focused on the human side of Christmas music, whether with the musicians who make the music--much the same way we do on 12 Songs--or by talking to collectors about the music they're passionate about. Last year, I talked to Kezin about the movie and his Chr…

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Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel 44:16

2y ago44:16

44:16

Twelve Songs returns after a life-induced hiatus with a good interview with Ray Benson from the Austin-based Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel. We talked in the spring when the band was coming to New Orleans to play Jazz Fest, and you can see my story focusing on the band celebrating 50 years in the game with its Half a Hundred Years album and…

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56 - Helping The Masses Invest with CPI Capital's Ava Benesocky 23:57

2+ y ago23:57

23:57

Your host, Annie Dickerson, talks with Ava Benesocky of CPI Capital. CPI Capital empowers investors to earn passive income through real estate investing. CPI identifies multifamily, value add opportunities like access to tax advantaged, passive income generating assests while the team manages the properties. To learn more about Ava's work, visit ht…

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