Colin Hanks with Anne Litt

Guest DJ Project: Colin Hanks

From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Guest DJ Project
Length: 09:51

Actor Colin Hanks takes us through the tracks that have meant the most to him throughout his life – songs he uses when he needs inspiration or just a pure burst of rock ‘n’ roll energy. Read the full description.

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Colinhanks_small Actor Colin Hanks has joined the cast of Dexter for the show’s sixth season. He’s also working on a documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records, so his love for music is well known. For his Guest DJ set, he takes us through the tracks that have meant the most to him throughout his life – songs he uses when he needs inspiration or just a pure burst of rock ‘n’ roll energy.

Tracks
1. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Pink Floyd - Fearless
3. DJ Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
4. Eagles of Death Metal - Speaking In Tongues
5. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow

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Piece Description

Actor Colin Hanks has joined the cast of Dexter for the show’s sixth season. He’s also working on a documentary about the rise and fall of Tower Records, so his love for music is well known. For his Guest DJ set, he takes us through the tracks that have meant the most to him throughout his life – songs he uses when he needs inspiration or just a pure burst of rock ‘n’ roll energy.

Tracks
1. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Pink Floyd - Fearless
3. DJ Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
4. Eagles of Death Metal - Speaking In Tongues
5. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow

Transcript

Anne Litt: Hi I'm Anne Litt and I'm here with actor and music lover Colin Hanks, today we'll be playing excerpts of songs he's selected that have inspired him over the years as part of KCRW's Guest DJ Project. So Colin, what have you brought for us?

Colin Hanks: I'm nervous, I mean I donate to this radio station, I've got a lot riding on this, I feel like…

AL: Your friends are going to be listening?

CH: My friends are going to be listening to it so I want to make sure that it's good.

AL: So, what is your first choice?

CH: Every single song, every track that I've picked, I've connected a specific feeling or emotion that I have or had the first time I heard the song and, for me, this specific recording of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” that is part of the Cirque Du Soleil Love show is by far one of the more beautifully touching… I mean it's just an absolutely jaw-droppingly gorgeous...
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