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- Women Making Music: Tori Amos
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- WXPN
Women Making Music is a series of short (two to three minute) first person accounts of artists talking about their lives and their craft. From WXPN--one of public radio's leading Tripple A stations--Women Making Music encompasses some of today's most important established singer-songwriters (Like Lucinda Williams and Suzanne Vega) as well as performers whose names you may not recognize. They hail from a variety of genres from Alternative Country to the Blues.
Also in the Women Making Music series
Women Making Music: Dolly Parton
(03:53)
From: WXPN
Country music legend Dolly Parton reflects on her connection to her Tennessee roots and life-long ambition to make music
Women Making Music: Dar Williams
(02:59)
From: WXPN
Folk singer Dar Williams reflects on the craft of songwriting
Women Making Music: Candye Kane
(03:00)
From: WXPN
Candye Kane muses about her love of music and how she was able to support her art and young son by working in the sex industry
Women Making Music: Ani Difranco
(03:19)
From: WXPN
Folk singer and independent spirit Ani Difranco muses about her career and music
Women Making Music: Mary Gauthier
(03:00)
From: WXPN
Mary Gauthier is a Nashville based performer who has used her rich life experience as fodder for her material.
Women Making Music: Joan Baez
(03:12)
From: WXPN
In this "Women Making Music" vignette folk icon Joan Baez ponders her evolution in both her personal and artistic life since her beginnings as a performer forty years ago.
Women Making Music: Erin McKeown
(03:00)
From: WXPN
Singer songwriter Erin McKeown muses about her artistic process and fascination with Judy Garland in WXPN's continuing series of short modules called Women Making Music
Women Making Music: Jolie Holland
(02:45)
From: WXPN
Jolie Holland is a Texas-born singer-songwriter with an impressive musical vocabulary and a wandering spirit. The newcomer muses about her life in this vignette.
Women Making Music: k.d. lang
(03:03)
From: WXPN
Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
(02:53)
From: WXPN
In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.
Piece Description
Women Making Music is a series of short (two to three minute) first person accounts of artists talking about their lives and their craft. From WXPN--one of public radio's leading Tripple A stations--Women Making Music encompasses some of today's most important established singer-songwriters (Like Lucinda Williams and Suzanne Vega) as well as performers whose names you may not recognize. They hail from a variety of genres from Alternative Country to the Blues.
Broadcast History
Airs locally throughout the month of March on WXPN-FM.
Timing and Cues
Begins and ends with Music.
Musical Works
Strange Little Girls, '97 Bonnie & Clyde From Strange Little Girls (Atlantic)
Mother from Little Earthquakes (Atlantic)
Witness from The Beekeeper (Epic)