Episode Transcript
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Speaker 2Over the years that I've been doing Revisionist History, I've done a number of episodes about music, and there's some of my favorites, And in going back and listening to those episodes, I realize they're all about versions of the same thing.
Well, actually, that's way too vague about the way that specific songs burrowed into my consciousness ten, twenty thirty, even forty years ago and have stayed there ever since, which is odd because I'm not musical.
I don't play an instrument.
I don't even know what a chord is.
But there is almost nothing that brings me more joy than sitting down.
Speaker 1With a musician.
Speaker 2So I thought we'd reprise four of my favorite music episodes from the archives of Revisionist History.
A trip to nash Phil to talk about sad songs, another trip to Nashville to talk about Elvis.
Speaker 1Of course, I wonder if.
Speaker 2Tonight a third is based around a magical afternoon I spent with Randy Newman prevail on you.
Speaker 3Did to steal a little bit of Marie Sure So I love that song so much.
Thank you.
Speaker 2And the last of them took me to the met to a pub in North London to the story of Leonard Cohen's masterpiece Hallelujah.
Speaker 1No, it's vera brokale.
Speaker 2Come join us for a walk down revisionist history Memory Lane, Halle