World Cafe Playlist for 07/07/2026

Boy Golden joins host Raina Douris

We all suffer. Sometimes in extraordinary ways, but also, in everyday, ordinary ways. On the World Cafe, Canadian songwriter Boy Golden talks about how his study of Zen Buddhism has helped him think about suffering and the way it connects us all as human beings, and how that idea shaped music on his new, Polaris Prize long-listed album, Best of Our Possible Lives.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist

Bruce Hornsby “Long Tall Cool One” Harbor Lights

Boy Golden “Suffer” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Boy Golden “Cowboy Dreams” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Boy Golden “Mountain Road” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Boy Golden “Best of Our Possible Lives” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Cage The Elephant “Tokyo Smoke” WC Recording

Ratboys “Anywhere” Singin’ to an Empty Chair

The Black Keys “The Night Before ” No Rain, No Flowers

St. Paul & the Broken Bones “Sushi and Coca-Cola” St. Paul & the Broken Bones

Julia Jacklin “Body” WC Recording

Julia Jacklin “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)” The Gem

Chuck Prophet “Just To See You Smile ” Age of Miracles

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros “Home” Up From Below

Hour Two

Warren Zevon “Sentimental Hygiene” Sentimental Hygiene

Jim James “Come Again” Wowed Out

Geese “Cobra” Getting Killed

Jason Isbell “24 Frames” Something More Than Free

Devon Gilfillian “Black Dog Rabbit Hole” Time Will Tell

Devon Gilfillian “Unchained” WC Recording

Roger McGuinn “Eight Miles High” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Daniel Donato “Sunshine in the Rain” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Florence Road “Rabbits Can Swim” Spring Forward

St. Vincent “Pay Your Way In Pain” Daddy’s Home

Death Cab For Cutie “El Dorado” WC Recording

Death Cab For Cutie “Punching the Flowers” I Built You A Tower

Tom Tom Club “Wordy Rappinghood” Tom Tom Club

Iron and Wine “All in Good Time” Light Verse

Kacey Musgraves “Rhinestoned” Middle of Nowhere