World Cafe Playlist for 05/05/2021

No-No Boy joins host Raina Douris

Julian Saporiti may have grown up in Nashville, but it took decades for him to be able to write the kind of folk music you find on his latest album as No-No Boy. On the next World Cafe, he talks about drawing from his own family’s difficult past–his mother left Vietnam in 1968 after his grandfather was killed in the Tet Offensive–as well as other immigrant stories to create a moving, very personal history lesson.

*Emmylou Harris “I Don’t Want To Talk About It Now” Red Dirt Girl

No-No Boy “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

No-No Boy “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony” 1975

No-No Boy “Tell Hanoi I Love Her” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

No-No Boy “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming” 1975

No-No Boy “Khmerica” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” Stranger in the Alps

Phoenix “Everything is Everything” Alphabetical

Hour Two
*Sade “Smooth Operator” Diamond Life

Japanese Breakfast “Be Sweet” Jubilee

R.E.M. “Pop Song 89” Green

The Killers “Somebody Told Me” Hot Fuss

Serena Ryder “Better Now” The Art of Falling Apart

Jonatha Brooke “Better After All” Back in the Circus

The Howlers “I Don’t Love You All The Time” I Don’t Love You All The Time (single)

Arctic Monkeys “One For The Road” AM

Radiohead “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” In Rainbows

Sofia Valdes “Gems” Ventura EP

David Byrne “Dirty Old Town” Rei Momo

Brownout “Fight The Power” Fear Of A Brown Planet

Amythyst Kiah “Black Myself” Black Myself (single)

Lenny Kravitz “Always On The Run” Mama Said

Blu DeTiger “Figure it Out” How Did We Get Here?

*Optional Song