World Cafe Playlist for 08/27/2026

CMAT joins host Raina Douris

Irish artist CMAT was nominated for the Mercury Prize last year, and her star is rising here in the States with her latest album Euro Country. On the World Cafe, CMAT talks about how she first connected with country music as a child growing up just outside of Dublin, about how she embraced her Irish identity to make this album, and she performs live.

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Today’s Playlist

Tom Petty “Don’t Come Around Here No More” Southern Accents

CMAT “When A Good Man Cries” Recorded Live for World Cafe

CMAT “Janis Joplining” Euro-Country

June Carter Cash “Time’s a Wastin'” The Essential Carl Smith

CMAT “I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Baby” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Hozier “From Eden” WC Recording

CMAT “Euro-Country” Euro-Country

CMAT “Euro-Country” Euro-Country

CMAT “Iceberg” Euro-Country

CMAT “Take a Sexy Picture of Me” Recorded Live for World Cafe

U2 “Drowning Man” War

Courtney Barnett “Site Unseen (feat. Waxahatchee)” Creature of Habit

Dinosaur Jr “Watch The Corners” I Bet on Sky

Hour Two

Beth Orton “Central Reservation” Central Reservation

Hovvdy “Try Try Try” Big World

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Mitski “Your Best American Girl” Puberty 2

The Strokes “Going Shopping” Reality Awaits

The Smiths “How Soon Is Now” Meat Is Murder

Gary Jules “Mad World” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Mumford & Sons “Whispers in the Dark” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Phoebe Bridgers “Lost Boys” Lost Weekend

David Gray “Babylon” White Ladder

Iron & Wine “All in Good Time (feat. Fiona Apple)” Light Verse

Joan Shelley “River Low” WC Recording

Sam and Louise Sullivan “Love & Devotion” Love & Devotion

Joan Armatrading “Love & Affection” Joan Armatrading

Lord Huron “The Night We Met” Strange Trails

Allison Russell “Black Lavender (feat. Brittney Spencer)” In the Hour of Chaos