World Cafe Playlist for 05/14/2020

Ann Powers joins host Raina Douris

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the whole world hard, but in Nashville, they were still reeling from a devastating tornado just as the lockdown came. And even though life in Music City has changed – including the loss of a Nashville legend, John Prine – the music hasn’t stopped. Today, NPR’s Ann Powers joins host Raina Douris to talk about the state of the music scene and some of her favorite new releases in Nashville right now.

*The Lone Bellow “You Never Need Nobody” The Lone Bellow

Jason Isbell “It Gets Easier” Reunions

Pam Tillis “Better Friends” Looking for a Feeling

Lou Turner “Flickering Protagonist” Songs for John Venn

Sylvia Rose Novak “Little Sister” Bad Luck

Gillian Welch “Happy Mother’s Day” single

The Black Keys “Fever” Turn Blue

The Flaming Lips “Race For The Price” The Soft Bulletin

Man Man “Cloud Nein” Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between

Jaime Wyatt “Neon Cross” Neon Cross

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Fortune Teller” Raising

Hour Two
*Mark Knopfler “What It Is” Sailing to Philadelphia

Dizzy “The Magician” The Sun and Her Scorch

Peter Gabriel “In Your Eyes” So

Shleby Lynne “Don’t Even Believe in Love” Shelby Lynne

St. Paul & The Broken Bones “Call Me” Half the City

Fontaines D.C. “A Hero’s Death” A Hero’s Death

XTC “Generals & Majors” Black Sea

U.S. Girls “4 American Dollars” Heavy Light

Spoon “I Turn My Camera On” Gimme Fiction

Low Cut Connie “Private Lives” Private Lives

Squirrel Flower “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings” Take it or Leave It/So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings

St. Vincent “Digital Witness” St. Vincent

David Byrne “Everybody’s Coming To My House” American Utopia

Blondie “Hanging on the Telephone” Parallel Lines

*Optional Song