Spirit of Memphis
The Playlist: Collaboration is the key, for music and for Memphis
Memphians make beautiful music, and maybe more so together. This months playlist showcases collaboration, with a bonus mix of Memphis Christmas music.
Elizabeth Cawein
There are 27 articles by Elizabeth Cawein :
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December 2021
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September 2021
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Arts & Culture The Playlist: Artists can take projects from start to finish in Memphis
Our desire for convenience begat streaming, but our desire for experiences never went away. It’s old meets new. Just like Memphis.
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June 2021
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Arts & Culture June playlist: Black Music Month
Elizabeth Cawein: When we look even more broadly at the culture of our city, in many cases the things we’re most proud of are borrowed from Black culture.
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April 2021
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Arts & Culture An April playlist, and the future of live music
Tickets for Levitt Shell’s first two fundraising concerts sold out within hours, indicating that audiences are chomping at the bit for live music and shared experiences.
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March 2021
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Arts & Culture February/March playlist: Where Black history and women’s history meet
A mix of Black women music-makers from Memphis, past and present, honors both February’s Black History Month celebration and Women’s History Month in March.
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January 2021
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Arts & Culture Why is the African American Music museum in Nashville?
The answer is simple and it also stings. It’s in Nashville because Nashville asked for it.
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December 2020
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Arts & Culture December playlist: Music for the definitely-not-normal holidays
We can pledge not to go “back to normal.” Normal, in the best of times, found us donating to GoFundMe campaigns to cover emergency medical bills of folks in our music community. Normal was $100 a gig for musicians. Normal is the system that’s broken.
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November 2020
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Arts & Culture November playlist: ‘Fresh Out the Oven’
‘Your friends and family may be familiar with Memphis music past, but how much do they know about Memphis music present? This playlist includes a selection of the freshest tracks I’ve played on my WYXR show “Straight from the Source.”’
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October 2020
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Music October Playlist: ‘Straight from the Source’
Elizabeth Cawein’s lifelong love affair with radio informs her new WYXR show, “Straight from the Source,” and the October Playlist.
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September 2020
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Music September playlist: An Americana mix
As a fan at a virtual concert, you always have the best seat in the house, the bathrooms are clean and close, and the drinks are strong and really cheap.
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August 2020
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Guest Column
Arts & CultureAugust playlist: Music is essential
Buy some Memphis music, y’all. Our independent record stores are back open and doing shopping by appointment, which, honestly, is pretty cool.
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July 2020
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Music July playlist: Silver Linings
Before this is all over there will be plenty of other songs like Yo Gotti’s "Recession Proof" that comment specifically on the pandemic. Even the tracks that don’t feature bridges about Zoom meetings will still reflect the mood and feelings of this moment.
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June 2020
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Arts & Culture June playlist: Celebrate Black Music Month
We should be as bold and bullish about our contemporary black music as we are about all of our claims to fame, from FedEx and Holiday Inn to historic music attractions to dry rub ribs.
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May 2020
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Music A Memphis music playlist for April/May
This month's playlist is accompanied by news about the Music Export Memphis COVID-19 Relief Fund, which to date has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to individual Memphis musicians.
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March 2020
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Opinion March playlist: Discover
If you love what you hear, let the mix play a few times to be sure the artists see a few pennies. Now is the time to buy that extra record, download an album instead of streaming it, spring for that cool T-shirt or koozie or sticker.
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February 2020
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Opinion February playlist: Valentine’s Day edition
It was a cosmic certainty that the one for me would be a music lover, too, but you already know the argument I’m here to make: Memphis music is the perfect soundtrack for falling in love, no matter who you are.
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January 2020
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Opinion January playlist: Rep your city
At gatherings, I only have to share one fact to get people interested: It’s music from Memphis.
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December 2019
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Opinion A December playlist, and a plea on behalf of musicians
If you got paid $100 per person for a gig in 1995, you probably still get paid $100 per person for that gig in 2019. In 2020, I hope we’ll demand fair pay for musicians, and be clear about what that means. Fair pay does not equal ‘exposure’ or beer or a sandwich.
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November 2019
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Opinion Memphis music for November: A smorgasbord of songs
As always, the playlist has some new releases (“O.T.F.” by J. Buck and “I Feel Good” by The Sensational Barnes Brothers), and there are throwbacks in honor of the recent Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction.
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October 2019
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Opinion October Playlist: Hoops and tunes
It’s not an accident that our sports teams have invested in music. We’re a hoops city, and we’re a music city. In the metaphorical fabric of Memphis, those two threads are intertwined. File under: Things that Define Us.
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June 2019
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Guest Columnists June playlist: It’s hot out here
If you’re lucky enough to have a pool – even a kiddie pool – this playlist should provide the perfect accompaniment for an afternoon lounge in your floaties.
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May 2019
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Guest Columnists May Playlist: Happy birthday to us
It would be easier in Memphis than anywhere else on Earth to feature 200 songs in honor of our city's 200th anniversary, but this list wasn’t meant to be exhaustive – not even close!
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April 2019
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Guest Columnists Memphis music for April: Collaboration
There’s something wonderful about musical collaborations, both the totally unexpected and the so-perfect-together-they’re-completely-obvious.
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March 2019
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Guest Columnists Memphis music for March: the Spring Sprang Sprung playlist
Here are 20 songs from the Memphis music catalog that will improve your commute one day this week.
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February 2019
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Guest Columnists Memphis music for February: Let’s lean in to the misery
Memphis has provided the world with some of the great love songs, but love is not always easy. Here's a playlist that takes heartbreaks, loneliness and love gone wrong into account.
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