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 Anonymous; music by Geese, Palestrina, Sufjan Stevens, Johnny Nash, Blind Faith, Mary McLaughlin, Robert Shaw, and more.
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Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay; music by the Belle Brigade; Carla Bley; Lorraine Hunt Leiberson; Francis Poulenc; Taylor Swift; Mavis Staples; The Mavericks; and more.
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Poetry by Wendell Berry; music by Bob Dylan, Cameron Winter, Mavis Staples, Style Council, Cecile McLorin-Salvant, Tems, and more.
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Poetry by James Joyce; music by Burna Boy, Jimmy Cliff, The Indigo Girls, Television, Patti Smith, Los Lobos, Cameron Winter, and more.
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Music by John Trudell, Quiltman and The Pines; Golden Smog; Jack DeJohnette; Tortoise; Cat Stevens; and more. Poetry by Robert Herrick.
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Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander; music by Wayne Shorter, Tortoise, Lizzy McAlpine, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bruce Springsteen, Haniya Aslam, Buena Vista Social Club, and more.
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Rebroadcast from August 2024: music by Sweet Honey in the Rock; Charlie XCX; Sam Nitzberg; Baba Maal; Ethel Cain, and more. Poetry by Lynn Unger.
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Poetry by Brian Teare; music by Alabaster DePlume, Neil Young, Lyle Lovett, Beautiful Chorus and India Arie, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jazzz and Eye Traveler, Alice Coltrane, and more.
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Poetry by Seamus Heaney; music by Jeff Tweedy, Max Richter, Handel, Fleetwood Mac, Geese, Slow Pulp, Diane Cluck, Phineas Newborn Orchestra, and more.