T-Bone Burnett discusses recording techniques and a sense of place on this week’s All Songs Considered. This is essential listening if you care at all about music, or if you wonder why listening to most of the stuff on the radio today just feels so exhausting.
This is Olivia’s new favorite YouTube video
She really likes the video, “of the kids who know how to fly.” Her favorite parts are the “nap time” and of course “flying to Neverland.”
Life has changed
I’ve been floored by this set of images from the Library of Congress, showing American life throughout the Great Depression and World War II. The addition of color makes it clear in a new way just how much life has changed, and how much more comfortable we all are now. I’m not so sure that we’re better for it.