Music Inside Out
Series produced by Music Inside Out
Music Inside Out with Gwen Thompkins is a weekly, one-hour radio broadcast featuring the people of Louisiana who’ve devoted their lives to America’s music. What makes their music so varied and satisfying is the influence of other cultures — an ongoing dialogue with the rest of the United States and the world.
The interview series from Gwen Thompkins and the producers of Music Inside Out explores Louisiana music-makers. The series debut in 2012 featured Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Marcia Ball, Sonny Landreth, David Simon, the Zion Harmonizers and Shannon Powell.
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Over the years, guests of Music Inside Out have described any number of approaches to making a living in music. But artists need the approbation t...
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 52:00
Country music historian Bill Malone writes about Southern life with the immediacy of someone who’s lived it. The authoritative voice in Ken Burns’...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 51:59
Robin Barnes was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward, shuttling between her parents’ and grandparents’ houses and singing the songs they liked to...
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 52:00
Ellis Marsalis joins Gwen Thompkins for a wide-ranging talk about his life in music - from modern jazz pianist, to jazz educator, to father of four...
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 51:58
Host Gwen Thompkins makes an exclusive visit to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, NY, guided through Armstrong’s rare recordings and life...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 52:00
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This week, we bring you that funky gentleman from the Ninth Ward, Jon Cleary, who talks about his native England, his grandmother, the piano back h...
- Added: Oct 31, 2018
- Length: 52:02
Musician, singer, songwriter and feminist icon Ani DiFranco joins Gwen Thompkins for an interview and solo performance in front of a rapt New Orlea...
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 51:58
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...
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- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
More than six billion people live on the planet, and yet relatively few human voices are recognizable to the naked ear. Irma Thomas has one of tho...
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- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 51:59
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A return visit with singer Irma Thomas, who pays tribute to her musical influences - some surprising - and tells Gwen all about the bottom line of ...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 51:59
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Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
A look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 15 years later, to hear how some of New Orleans' best-loved musicians endured - and why. Gwen T...
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 51:58
Germaine Bazzle is New Orleans’ pre-eminent modern jazz chanteuse, eeking every emotional drop from the American Popular Songbook. For more than 5...
- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 51:57
The members of the band Galactic have been groove-makers in New Orleans and beyond for more than 25 years, embracing R&B, hip hop, jazz, rap, rock,...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 51:59
Singer Tomi Lunsford has spent her life immersed in country music, but her playful vocal style draws from jazz and blues. In spite of her singular ...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2017
- Length: 52:00
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Singer-songwriter Spencer Bohren (1950-2019) was raised in Casper, Wyoming, and made his home in New Orleans. In between, for seven straight years,...
- Added: Sep 29, 2020
- Length: 51:59
Trumpeter Wendell Brunious hails from one of New Orleans’ storied musical families -- with more than a half-dozen trumpet-playing siblings, and fat...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 52:02
Ann Savoy is a lot of things: a musician, scholar, mother, and world traveler. She took the scenic route from Virginia to South Louisiana in the m...
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 52:00
Singer Quiana Lynell’s path to accomplished jazz bandleader and vocalist has winded through years of church choir in Texas, classical training at L...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 52:01
The Covid pandemic of 2020 challenged musicians, artists and performers like nothing before, ever -- and they adapted, in all different ways. "Musi...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 51:58