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Our guest is Lynn Gilbert, a massive contributor to 20th-century portrait photography — her photos of sculptor Louise Nevelson became the face of the Venice Biennale in 2022 — whose 1981 book of photos and essays, ‘Particular Passions,’ became a significant document of second-wave feminism. Lynn, with virtually no professional portfolio at the time, somehow brought together luminaries and unknowns to create her monumental book, cataloging some of the most important well-known — and unknown — persons of the time and movement. Her subjects included Gloria Steinem, Margaret Mead, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Julia Child, Lillian Hellman, Barbara Walters, and more. A beautiful and generous figure in my own small story, it is my sincere pleasure to bring part one of this wide-ranging conversation with Lynn to you this Tuesday, a deep look at a life lived behind the lens.
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Please welcome the legendary Lach to your ears. Lower East Side/Edinburgh artist and producer and presenter, novelist, BBC radio host — you name it, he's probably done it. We go super deep into the history of anti-folk in NYC and the world, but that's just the surface of the thing. Memory, dreams, visions, heartbreak and triumph, life and death, love and letdowns — it's the very DNA of this little podcast, and few guests have hit so many of the notes. You're in for it.
Clips in this episode:
Crazy House (1988 version) - Lach, NYC's Fortunes 13 (2015)Holy Days - Lach, Lach Live at ABC No Rio, NYC, 1980's (2017)The Edie Effect - Lach, Contender (2015)Effect A Change - Lach (2015)New York ≈ Hoboken - Lach (2017)
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Sam Shaber is in the middle of a resurrection. For years, if you found Sam’s work, you found it via storytelling or her podcast focusing on in-vitro fertilization and women’s health and just and accurate information and access to both. Or you knew her power-pop-punk bands. These were the points of contact. This week we pick up the story, the rest of the story, how she came out of a landmark moment in her career recording an album named ‘Eighty Numbered Streets’ with a Grammy-nominated artist and what happened after that. We also come back to family, talking about her father, who in his lifetime wrote the screenplay of ‘The Warriors’ — a milestone film in several ways. And we at last come to the story of Sam’s mother, whose passing in 2022 changed what had been our plan to have an interview on this show shortly after we’d recorded it. That’s the only “lost” episode, and in this installment, we restore the ideas and central truths of that original conversation. And I’m glad to have it.
Clips in this episode:
Eldorado - Sam Shaber, Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)Happy Happy Happy - The Happy Problem (2008)IVFU with Sam Shaber Silver Linings - Sam Shaber, The Moth StorySLAM (2018)Solitaire - Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)
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Sam Shaber is back with the very songs she shelved after those years in the early 2000s, back with ‘Eighty Numbered Streets.’ She’s about to take the album on the road for the first time in decades, playing it front to back in Los Angeles, New York, and elsewhere — and soon she’ll reunite with Shawn Mullins for a concert in Georgia. It’s a critical moment to meet this artist, or meet them again. Please let me introduce you to an old collaborator and friend.
Clips in this episode:
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins, Soul's Core (1998)Rain and Sunshine - Sam Shaber, Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)All of This - Sam Shaber, Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)Bare - Sam Shaber, Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)Eldorado - Sam Shaber, Eighty Numbered Streets (2003)
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One night in the late 1990s I walked up to a big black door under a tattered green awning, and I walked through that door, and I was in a room. I was at a crossroads. I was a kid with a guitar, and I was about to meet a man named Geoff Bartley. I’ve seldom respected an artist and a host and a curator of a room the way I respect Geoff. He’s our guest on the season closer of ‘All Your Days,' and for the first time, I have the privilege of learning where this man, this musician that critics and producers and artists have described as “one of the most under-recognized musicians alive today,” this award-winning fingerstyle player, this picker, this poet, this bluesman, this maker of a space that was essential to the songwriter scene in Boston and Cambridge came from, what he meant to do, what he achieved, where he has been and where he is going tomorrow. A must. A deep and soulful talk.
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Please meet Timothy Mason. There is probably no one more consequential in terms of my awakening artist’s mind in the 1990s. There was no early room in which I discovered or started to practice art that was not either produced by Tim or for which he was not in some way materially responsible. Nothing that followed would have played out the same way. This one is a catch from the deeper waters, the personal depths. We’re swimming with the tides of the cosmos in this one: the story of a person who created a network of stages and performance venues across geography and time, bringing luminaries and future luminaries together in places unlikely or spaces imperiled — all the while practicing his own craft as a poet and performer striving to channel voices and experience both inside and outside the human condition.
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Back in the early 2010s, I met a man named Rafat Ali, who’d just co-founded an online travel news company called Skift, and he gave me an assignment. And that changed everything. In my journey, Rafat has unlocked incredible next steps and new chapters, but we’ve never really talked to each other about his journey, the whole thing, from India to Indiana to New York and many circles opened and closed along the way. Culture shock, climbing the cliff face of a career in writing and journalism, triumphs, injustices, escapes and narrow passages, fearlessness lost and found again. This is Rafat’s story and it’s a great privilege to have had such a deep and generous conversation. Many lessons within. Spend some time with the mind of Rafat Ali. You’ll be glad you did.
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This week our conversation turns to Africa with the brilliant Gift Kiti, who has been building water resources and a crucial health clinic for the people of Kashani, Kenya, since 2017. I've been fortunate enough to be along for parts of Gift's journey, thanks to The Resolution Project, and in this episode, 'All Your Days' unpacks the nature of a project that is materially changing lives but that has also come with prices, costs, lessons and revelations for all of us
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Some songs and their writers get to you by degrees. Some creep up on your consciousness, a verse here, a chorus there. Others land on your world in a song. That’s all it takes. It’s not a lot, and then it’s everything. In this episode, songwriter Randy Kaplan and I talk about the moment his song “Slow Eater” landed in my world, and then we unpack a lifetime of incredible moments, from Los Angeles and coming up with luminaries like Dan Bern and Andras Jones to a career on TV, including ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ scenes with Jennifer Aniston in ’Ferris Bueller,’ and more. And that’s just scratching the surface.
Clips in this episode:
Slow Eater (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997 Tootsie Roll (Randy Kaplan, ‘Perfect Gentleman’) - 2004Crushed Berries (Randy Kaplan, ‘Miraculous Dissolving Cures’) - 2001Shampoo Me (Randy Kaplan, ‘Five Cent Piece’) - 2006Mosquito Song (Randy Kaplan, ‘Five Cent Piece’) - 2006 Candy Man Blues (Randy Kaplan, ‘Shake It and Break It’) - 2019Beauty and the Beast (‘Snow’ d. Gus Trikonis) - 1989Ferris Bueller (‘Without You I’m Nothing' d. Steve Dubin) - 1990I’m Not Hungry (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997Live Tigers (Randy Kaplan, ‘Boyish Hips’) - 1997Angel Eyes (Frank Sinatra, ‘Sings for Only the Lonely’) - 1958Sad to Be Happy (Randy Kaplan, ‘Songs for Old Lovers’) - 2011Volunteers (Randy Kaplan, ‘Miraculous Dissolving Cures’) - 2001
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The second part of our conversation with the topical songwriter David Rovics. Part one traced the evolution of a political mind to the moment when tragedy undid the shackles of expectations and set David on his path. This week we follow what happens next, the collapse of the college circuit that supported activists throughout the later 20th Century, the implosion of the CD revenue stream and the rise of an atomized social-media-driven culture.
Clips in this episode:
Today in Charlottesville (David Rovics, ‘Ballad of a Wobbly’ - 2018)From Kabul to Khartoum (David Rovics, ‘ Living in These Times’ - 2001)Operation Iraqi Liberation (David Rovics, ‘The Commons’ - 2007)Somewhere on Spotify (David Rovics, ‘Songs for Today’ - 2019)Israeli Geography 101 (David Rovics, ‘Meanwhile in Afghanistan (Solo Acoustic) - 2019)David Rovics is a Nazi (David Rovics, ‘David Rovics’ YouTube - 2022)I’m a Better Anarchist Than You (David Rovics, ‘The Commons’ - 2007)
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Some songwriters, they yearn for a mantle — they strive for the political mark. David Rovics’ songs move musically in the way of the great protesters, singers and poets — the Seegers and the Guthries, Baez, early Dylan, the Anne Feenies and the Alix Olson. I’ve finally had a chance to talk with David. What I discovered, and what fills the next two episodes of this show, is an artist still at work on the specific and the topical and the positively protest-oriented, but I also found a person deeply embroiled in the new tides of the present. this is a story of protest, and of being protested, and it is a story of minds and souls that are searching for the paths that navigate both of those poles while staying in the light and, if were are lucky enough, offering some guiding point, some pinprick of illumination, to others.
Clips in this episode:
Henry Ford Was a Fascist (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim’ - 2000)Who Would Jesus Bomb? (David Rovics, ‘The Commons’ - 2007)Hobo’s Lullabye (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim’ - 2000)Make It So (David Rovics, ‘Make It So’ - 1996)Song for Eric (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim’ - 2000)If I Die Tomorrow (David Rovics, ‘We Just Want the World’ - 1998)
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In the fall of 2002, I turned on a four-track and demo-ed the album I intended to record as a follow-up to my record 'Life Underwater.' A lot of things changed after that. The new season of ‘All Your Days’ starts with the story of lost work and how it was made between the events of September 11, 2001, and the day I switched on the recorder. A portrait of a year marked by fire and death, haunted spaces and creations, by the accidental making of a time capsule that would emerge 20 years later as a testament of sorts.
Clips in this episode:
Opening Themes: Dark Shadows / Collinwood (The Robert Cobert Orchestra, Dark Shadows [The Original Music]) - 1999Sleep (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Touch You (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023After the Prom (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Mourning Day (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Same Old World (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Surrender (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Black Helicopters (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023Church of the Kitchen Sink (Resurrections Version) (James O’Brien, ‘Church of the Kitchen Sink: Resurrections) - 2023
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Part two of a stunning and wide-open conversation with Melissa Ferrick. From the Spotify class action suit to writer’s block to the revival and reinforcement of a practice to the transformation of a life into one that strives for balance between artist and academic, the podcast is joined again by this incredible voice, one that has been putting in the work since 1991. We pick up Melissa’s journey from where we left off in the heady early days, tracking days of triumph and troubles all the way to the present, where the artist — and the academic — are on the cusp of new and powerful moments. And we get a sneak peek at Melissa’s new single.
Clips in this episode:
David Lowery v. Spotify (Dan Kopko, ‘Copyright Answers: Copyright & Music’) - 2016Why Did Taylor Swift Pull Her Music From Spotify? (Joe Levy + Trish Regan, ‘Street Smart’) - 2015A2IM/Melissa Ferrick/NMPA (Portia Sabin, ‘The Future of What, Episode 64’) - 2017Goodbye Youth (Melissa Ferrick, ‘GoodBye Youth’) - 2008It’s Been A Long Time (Melissa Ferrick ‘In The Eyes of Strangers’) - 2006The Truth Is (Melissa Ferrick, ‘The Truth Is’) - 2013What Music Teaches You (Melissa Ferrick, Berklee College of Music) - 2013Black Tornado (Melissa Ferrick, ’70 People at 7000 Feet') - 2004Welcome to My Life (Melissa Ferrick, ’70 People at 7000 Feet’) - 2004
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In 1991, nineteen-year-old Melissa Ferrick got a phone call. The caller told her that she was about to open for Morrissey. She had about an hour to get to the amphitheater. And the next day, they sent a car to take her away on tour with Moz. It has been a long time since I last spoke with Melissa. And never before have we spoken to each other about the stories and experiences and details that she shares. Part 1 of 2, this episode is such a generous conversation re: early days, transformations, triumphs, frustrations ... and "Drive." Our conversation floored me with its specificity and sometimes its vulnerability and always by how powerfully the way Melissa Ferrick describes her world resonates.
Clips in this episode:
Do Re Mi (Ani DiFranco and Melissa Ferrick, Live in New York - 2011)Seconds (Melissa Ferrick, Live in Hollywood - 2009)Giving Day 2021 (Melissa Ferrick and Steve Kurz, Northeastern College of Arts, Media and Design - 2021)Morrissey in Houston (Christi Myers, 13 Eyewitness News - 1992)Happy Song (Melissa Ferrick, 'Massive Blur' - 1993)Hello Dad (Melissa Ferrick, 'Massive Blur' - 1993)Massive Blur (Melissa Ferrick, 'Massive Blur' - 1993)Freedom (Melissa Ferrick, 'Freedom' - 2000)Drive (Melissa Ferrick, 'Freedom' - 2000)North Carolina (Melissa Ferrick, 'Freedom' - 2000)Closer (Melissa Ferrick, 'Live at Union Hall' - 2007)
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Chris Chandler is a maker of new things out of two things, out of three things, out of four — one of the world’s consummate collaborators, sharing tracks with luminaries, fusing the verse he inhabits with the chords and choruses of artists such as Dan Bern, Jim Infantino, Peter Yarrow, Anne Feeney and Paul Benoit. I’ve known Chris a bit over the years, and years ago shared stages with him here and there, and I’ve always been moved and awed by what he manages to do with a pair of vocal cords and the truth. But I’ve never heard his full story or gotten under the hood with the head that makes it all work. Until this episode.
Clips in this episode:
Jupiter Falling (James O’Brien, Live at City Winery [unreleased, Dan Bern intro] — 2023)Stone Mountain/Georgia (Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit, ‘So Where Ya Headed?’ — 2009)Hannibal / Would You Die for a Necktie? (Chris Chandler and Dan Bern, ‘Collaborations’ — 1999)Carnaval (Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney, Live at Kerville — 2003)Travels with Charlie (Chris Chandler, ‘As Seen on No Television — 1992)Lionel Say / Breakfast Serial Killers, (Chris Chandler and Jim Infantino, ‘Collaborations’ — 1999)Loafer’s Glory / Nothin ‘ to Do But Go (U. Utah Phillips and Mark Ross, ‘Loafer’s Glory’ — 1997)Sourmouth Sprout (Chris Chandler and Anne Feeney, ‘Hold Me Up to the Light’ [Peter Wilde] — 2003)Last Thoughts on Elvis Presley (Chris Chandler, ‘Convenience Store Troubadours’ — 1996)Eli Whitney was an A-Hole / Maggie’s Farm (Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit, ‘Pocket Call From My Dreams’ — 2017)Meek Rising - Don’t Go Back to Sleep (Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit, ‘Don’t Go Back to Sleep’ — 2022)Lightning Bugs and Barflies (Chris Chandler and Paul Benoit, ‘Matadors’ — 2011)
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Ted Drozdowski penned what is probably the most important article about my musical work in the whole of my strange little start-and-stop songwriting career. But that's not what this episode is really about. Ted Drozdowski packed his bags and traveled the world and played the blues, and he gets to say that forever. That is part of what this episode is about, and that he is a believer in the power of the guitar, and that he is connected to some part of an older source, an older trunk line. This is his story, an artist's story. Ted Drozdowski is our guest on this episode of 'All Your Days.'
Clips in this episode:
Death Letter (Scissormen, 'Jinx Breakers' - 2005)Nobody But You (Live) (Junior Kimbrough, 'You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough' - 2002)Big Shoes (Scissormen, 'Big Shoes - Walking and Talking the Blues' - 2012)When the Devil Calls (Scissormen, 'Luck In a Hurry' - 2008)Hellhound On My Trail (John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, 'Steady Rollin' Man' - 2001)Corey Harris & Othar Turner (d.Martin Scorsese, 'The Blues' - 2003)Big Shoes: Walking and Talking the Blues (d.Robert Mugge - 2010)57 Flavors (Ted Drozdowski, 'Coyote Motel' - 2019)The River (Live) (Coyote Motel, 'Still Among the Living (Live)' - 2020)The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Trailer (d.Errol Morris - 2017)
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The sound of John Sinclair giving his poetry to a room is a deep motion, a rumble from some planetary layer. The sound of John Sinclair giving this interview is a hurricane motion, a gale force communication from a past and present that cannot be ignored. His is a story that includes great artists of our time, of his time — the 1960s especially — of a time that feels long ago until you hear the voices again ... huge, urgent, howling. Poet, activist, ally, cause celebre, White Panther, prisoner, a free man — and all the complications that come with all those things — this is John Sinclair on 'All Your Days.'
Clips in this episode:
My Buddy (John Sinclair & His Boston Blues Scholars, ‘Steady Rollin' Man’ - 2001)Sentimental Journey (Les Brown, 'Best of the Big Bands' - c.1944)Maybellene (Chuck Berry, 'The Definitive Collection' - 1955)Rebel Without A Cause (d. Nicholas Ray, 1955)(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones, 'Hot Rocks 1964–1971' - 1965)I Am Not Your Negro (d. Raoul Peck, 2017)Kick Out the Jams (Uncensored Version) (MC5, 'The Big Bang!' - c.1969)WPP Central Committee - Music is a Revolutionary Force (p. Cary Loren, field recording - c.1968–69)D. C. B. A. 25 (Jefferson Airplane, 'Surrealistic Pillow' - 1967)Abbie Hoffman incident - Woodstock (field recording - 1969)John Sinclair (John Lennon, 'Some Time in New York City' - 1972)Do It (John Sinclair, 'Beatnik Youth' - 2017)Ain't Nobody's Business (John Sinclair, 'Beatnik Youth' - 2017)
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Archaeologist and historian Edward L. Bell joins ‘All Your Days’ to talk about his recent book, a history — and a mystery (and he's come the furthest in solving it) — tied to stories of slaves in the Northeast U.S. and what we think we know about bastions of abolition. A lot. Heavy talk. Good talk. Needed talk. Ed and I go back as musical friends as well, and I learn a lot about this person I’ve known for many years, including his parents’ early days around Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and our shared connection to Ferron’s incredible songwriting.
Clips in this episode:
Shadows On A Dime (Ferron, ‘Not A Still Life: Live At The Great American Music Hall’ - 1992)Classroom Scene (‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ - 1989)
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Walter Geer III is a creative director in the advertising world. In 2018, he approached me with this one specific story, and in this episode, we return to that moment, that project — one that is now ongoing, one that focuses on social justice, equality, ambition, expectations, repercussions, and perseverance. One that's changed Walt's life and changed the lives of people working with words and images and sound throughout his industry. And made some of them angry, too. This is a story of what it means to stand up, to take flak for standing up, and to keep standing up regardless. Walter Geer III is our guest on this episode of ‘All Your Days.’
Clips in this episode:
Advertising or Marketing (Bill Hicks, ‘Revelations: Variations’ - 2019)Walter Geer III at Mosaic Awards 2022 (American Advertising Federation - 2022)Ask The Experts - Anita Sheares + Walter T. Geer III (The Advertising Club of New York - 2020)ThinkNW Diversity Summit Summer 2021 - Walter T. Geer III + Anastasia Williams (ThinkNW - 2021)Black Madison Ave Trailer (NewYorkFestivals - 2022)
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His name is Dhani Jones. He was a middle linebacker in the NFL from 2000 to 2011, from the New York Giants to the Eagles to the Cincinnati Bengals. And that’s only part of the story. Dhani hosts TV shows on The Travel Channel and CNBC, publishes a book about his sport, starts companies and creative agencies and invests in visionary organizations that are shaping the future, all while working for equality in our schools and workplaces. He’s one of the most inspiring people I know, in a rare class of doers — the kind that talks the talk and walks the walk. In this episode of ‘All Your Days,’ Dhani Jones is my mind-blowingly passionate guest for a deep talk about persistence and recognition, passion, curiosity — and about exhaustion as a process rather than an obstacle. It’s a big one. This is Dhani Jones.
Clips in this episode:
‘Vin Scully was the voice of baseball. Hear some of his greatest calls.’ (MLB - 2022)‘Hedman turn, he shoots, he scores!’ (SPORTSNET - 2017)‘NFL Announcers "Speaking Too Soon”’ (Ding Productions - 2021)‘Dhani Jones Interview with Adam Neft on 97.1 The Fan’ (97.1 The Fan - 2011)‘Dhani Tackles the Globe’ (RedL1neF1lms - 2011)‘Dhani Tackles the Globe (Thailand)’ (freelandfilms - 2011)‘Rachel Jacobson - From The Hardwood Court To The Sky’ (The Pathfinders with Dhani Jones - 2022)
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