“I care about words more than music,” says musician Lucy Dacus. Lucy recently released her third album, Home Video--a compilation of stories and vignettes pulled directly from her journals, dating back to her childhood. For Lucy, deep honesty in the form of song lyrics is almost compulsive. On this week’s show, Lucy and Hanif each unpack what it means to be a confessional writer, and together explore what honesty can offer an artist, or how it can hurt them. Plus, a reading list from Lucy on the books that offer her inspiration. /Music In This Week's Episode/ Thumbs, Lucy Dacus I Love You, Mary J. Blige All That You Have Is Your Soul, Tracy Chapman Bad Religion, Frank Ocean You Must Love Me, JAY-Z It Hurts Me Too, Karen Dalton Give My Love To Rose, Johnny Cash It Hurts Me So Much, Etta James
“I care about words more than music,” says musician Lucy Dacus. Lucy recently released her third album, Home Video is a compilation of stories and vignettes pulled directly from her journals, dating back to her childhood. For Lucy, deep honesty in the form of song lyrics is almost compulsive. On this week’s show, Lucy and Hanif each unpack what it means to be a confessional writer, and together explore what honesty can offer an artist, or how it can hurt them. Plus, a reading list from Lucy on the books that offer her inspiration.
/Music In This Week's Episode/
Thumbs, Lucy Dacus
I Love You, Mary J. Blige
All That You Have Is Your Soul, Tracy Chapman
Bad Religion, Frank Ocean
You Must Love Me, JAY-Z
It Hurts Me Too, Karen Dalton
Give My Love To Rose, Johnny Cash
It Hurts Me So Much, Etta James
/Show Notes/
Lucy Dacus’ newest album is Home Video.
Lucy’s song Please Stay is inspired by Hanif’s essay “Brief Notes on Staying.”
Lucy’s often pulls inspiration for literature. The books she’s been reading are:
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
/Credits/
This show is produced by work by work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Babette Thomas, Mayari Sherina Ong and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair.