John Morrison joins host Raina Douris

After finding success with their debut in 1993, Digable Planets pushed back against the alternative hip hop label they were given with their second album: the rougher edged Blowout Comb. On a new Culture Corner, correspondent John Morrison talks about that album 30 years later.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist

The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” Road to Ruin

The Yardbirds “Over Under Sideways Down” Roger The Engineer

Digable Down “Blowing Down” Blowout Comb

Digable Planets “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)

Digable Planets “9th Wonder (Blackitolism)” Blowout Comb

Digable Planets “The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug” Blowout Comb

Digable Planets “Jettin'” Blowout Comb

Radiohead “Major Picture Soundtrack” Kid A

Janelle Monae “Tightrope” The ArchAndroid

Thee Sacred Souls “Live For You” Got A Story To Tell

The Heptones “Baby, I Need Your Loving” Night Food

Adele “Set Fire to the Rain” 21

Michigander “Giving Up” (single)

Joe Jackson “Fools In Love” Look Sharp!

Waxahachee “Bored” Tigers Blood

The Kinks “Starstruck” The Village Green Preservation Society

Hour Two
Jimmy Cliff “Sitting In Limbo” Another Cycle

The Weather Station “Neon Signs” Humanhood

The National “Guilty Party” Sleep Well Beast

Duran Duran “Hungry Like The Wolf” Rio

The Dare “All Night” What’s Wrong With New York?

Zach Bryan “28” The Great American Bar Scene

The Head and the Heart “Shake” WC Recording

John Legend “Ordinary People” WC Recording

Hozier “Eat Your Young” Unreal Unearth

Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls” Please

Leon Bridges “Peaceful Place” Leon

Coldplay “Politik” A Rush of Blood to the Head

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings “What We Had” Woodland

Crosby Stills & Nash “See the Changes” CSN

The Heavy Heavy “Feel” One of a Kind