Woman Wattage
Host Anne Watts draws inspiration from listeners worldwide, dropping the needle on music that marks the sonic brilliance of humanity, from Sun Ra to Adrienne Lenker, from Alice Coltrane and Cate Le Bon to Igor Stravinsky, Neil Young, and esperanza spalding.
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Poetry by Kenneth Koch; music by Les Rita Mitsouko, Alabama Shakes, John Coltrane, Carmen McRae, The Weather Station, M.C Schmidt and John Berndt, and more.
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Poetry by Joy Harjo and Emily Dickinson; music by Jennifer Koh; Josh Johnson; Searows; Richard Thompson; Michelle Ndegeocello and Cat Power; and more.
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Poetry by Seamus Heaney; music by Linda Smith and Nancy Andrews; the Jayhawks; Lakecia Benjamin; Rocco DeLuca; SeepeopleS; Robert Fripp and Terre Roche; and more.
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Poetry by Mary Oliver; music by John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Avi Engel, Dino Delray, Nina Simone, Ben Harper, Agnes Obel, and more.
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Poetry by Michael Nakkula; music by wakatsuki, Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabate, The Monuments, This Is Lorelei, World Saxophone Quartet, Mazzy Star, Felix Mendelssohn, and more.
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Poetry by Tremain Smith; music by Cassandra Wilson, Dawn Upshaw, Alexandr Scriabin, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Friendship, Morale, and more.
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Poetry by Wendell Berry; music by Steely Dan, Flawed Mangoes, Hayley Heynderickx, Linda and Teddy Thompson, Linda Perhacs, Lalo Schifrin, and more.
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Poetry by Amy Lowell; music by Lucinda Williams, Glen Hansard, Dolly Parton (homage by Peter Trachtenburg), Bob Marley, Valerie June, and more.
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Poetry by Philip Miller; music by Aaron Copland; Anthony Braxton; Aurora Nealand; Adrienne Lenker; The Allman Brothers; Arooj Aftab; Mulatu Astatke; and more.
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Poetry by W.S. Merwin; music by Terry Jenoure, Evangeline Young, Glen Hansard, Moses Sumney, Bonnie Prince Billy, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, and more.