Kail Baxley: Music From An Amateur Boxer Who Danced For James Brown
When Kail Baxley was a kid growing up in Williston, S.C., James Brown used to challenge him to dance-offs. Baxley didn't win so much. He did better as an amateur boxer — his key to getting out of the...
View ArticleNext: Luella And The Sun
For our Sense of Place: Nashville week, we just had to showcase Luella and the Sun, which has made major fans out of Grimey's Records' Doyle Davis, other bands like Moon Taxi and NPR Music's Ann Powers...
View ArticleThe Slide Brothers On World Cafe
Calvin Cooke, Aubrey Ghent and brothers Darrick and Chuck Campbell are The Slide Brothers. The band's self-titled album debut album was produced by Robert Randolph, the spectacular young pedal-steel...
View ArticleThe Marcus King Band On World Cafe
The Marcus King Band joins World Cafe 's Dan Reed for an interview and performance recorded onstage at World Cafe Live. King, a 20-year-old guitarist who hails from South Carolina, released his...
View ArticleSelwyn Birchwood On World Cafe
After hearing the music of Jimi Hendrix as a kid, Selwyn Birchwood was drawn to the blues. Later, he was literally drawn to the blues' doorstep after one of Birchwood's high school friends in Florida...
View ArticleBootsy Collins On World Cafe
In this session, we've got Bootsy in the house, baby! Bootsy Collins has a new album, his first in six years, called World Wide Funk . Bootsy grew up in Ohio and turned to the bass as his instrument...
View ArticleSense Of Place, South Africa: McCoy Mrubata
McCoy Mrubata was born in 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa. He left school after the 1976 Soweto uprising , first dedicating himself to painting and later to music. Playing the flute and saxophone, he...
View ArticleR.L. Boyce On World Cafe
We do our best to turn our World Cafe studio into bluesman R.L. Boyce's porch at his house in Como, Mississippi. That's where Boyce sits and plays many days in the farming community south of Memphis in...
View ArticleSounds From The Camp Stage At 2018 Philadelphia Folk Festival
The Philadelphia Folk Festival just celebrated it's 57th go round of concerts workshops, camping and folkie camaraderie on The Old Poole Farm outside of Philadelphia this past August. Each year, the...
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