This Song

In this rerun from 2018, Beth Ditto, former lead singer of the band Gossip, talks about how Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” helped her grapple with complex feelings about her home state, Arkansas. She also talks about returning home after heartbreak and explores making her first record “Fake Sugar.” Every  Thursday at 7pm CT, KUTX hosts a weekly  Netflix Party featuring a different music documentary. Check it out https://www.facebook.com/events/2608908012547135/?event_time_id=2608908019213801. Last week’s movie was What Happened, Miss Simone? and inspired the re-run of this episode discussing Simone’s music and its lasting resonance. Starting this week they’ll be watching the  documentary series https://www.netflix.com/title/80141782 This is the last episode of This Song  for a while. In the meantime, check out our hip-hop podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-breaks-kutx/id1481122529 and the https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-confessional/id1485279788 podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://twitter.com/KUTX https://www.facebook.com/kutxaustin/ https://www.instagram.com/thissongkutx/ Listen on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://open.spotify.com/show/1I7tDaSjVH402SZAxGd2GX?si=JKpAkCBVRHOiDywyFTw-Fg orhttp://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kutx-this-song Listen to Songs from this episode of This Song

In this rerun from 2018, Beth Ditto, former lead singer of the band Gossip, talks about how Nina Simone’s “Mississippi Goddam” helped her grapple with complex feelings about her home state, Arkansas. She also talks about returning home after heartbreak and explores making her first record “Fake Sugar.” Every  Thursday at 7pm CT, KUTX hosts a weekly  Netflix Party featuring a different music documentary. Check it out here [https://www.facebook.com/events/2608908012547135/?event_time_id=2608908019213801]. Last week’s movie was What Happened, Miss Simone?and inspired the re-run of this episode discussing Simone’s music and its lasting resonance. Starting this week they’ll be watching the  documentary series Hip-Hop Evolution. [https://www.netflix.com/title/80141782] This is the last episode ofThis Song for a while. In the meantime, check out our hip-hop podcast The Breaks [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-breaks-kutx/id1481122529] and the Song Confessional [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/song-confessional/id1485279788]podcast.

In this rerun from 2018, https://www.lizphairofficial.com/ describes how the 1980s rock song “I Wanna Destroy You” by The Soft Boys put her in touch with her youthful desire to destroy something. We also hear Phair share what it was like to revisit her early 90’s songs on the recent https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/liz-phair-girly-sound-to-guyville-the-25th-anniversary-box-set/ tour. Plus, she shares a bit of parenting wisdom with host Elizabeth McQueen. Phair has a new record, Soberish, coming out this summer. Listen to this episode of This Song https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://twitter.com/KUTX https://www.facebook.com/kutxaustin/ https://www.instagram.com/thissongkutx/ Listen on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://open.spotify.com/show/1I7tDaSjVH402SZAxGd2GX?si=JKpAkCBVRHOiDywyFTw-Fg orhttp://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kutx-this-song Listen to Songs from this episode of This Song

In this rerun from 2018, Liz Phair [https://www.lizphairofficial.com] describes how the 1980s rock song “I Wanna Destroy You” by The Soft Boys put her in touch with her youthful desire to destroy something. We also hear Phair share what it was like to revisit her early 90’s songs on the recent Girly-Sound to Guyville [https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/liz-phair-girly-sound-to-guyville-the-25th-anniversary-box-set/] tour. Plus, she shares a bit of parenting wisdom with host Elizabeth McQueen. Phair has a new record,Soberish,coming out this summer. Listen to this episode ofThis Song

Beloved American singer-songwriter John Prine is on many people’s minds right now. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-prine-stable-hospitalization-975436/ Our hearts go out to him and his family.  This episode, recorded live in 2018 at Waterloo records, is a testament to Prine’s creativity,  kindness and generosity of spirit. In it, he explains how Bob Dylan’s “The Lonsesome Death of Hattie Carroll” changed his life and goes in-depth on his own songwriting process for his album “The Tree of Forgiveness. Listen to this episode of This Song https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://twitter.com/KUTX https://www.facebook.com/kutxaustin/ https://www.instagram.com/thissongkutx/ Listen on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-song-kutx/id934598454 https://open.spotify.com/show/1I7tDaSjVH402SZAxGd2GX?si=JKpAkCBVRHOiDywyFTw-Fg orhttp://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kutx-this-song Watch to the full interview of John Prine’s This Song episode from KUTX’s Facebook page   Listen to Songs from this episode of This Song