Ann Delisi's Essential Conversations

Ann Delisi continues her conversation with NPR Political Correspondent, Don Gonyea who talks about what it’s like to be a reporter at a Trump rally, covering Barack Obama when he spoke to 250,000 people in Berlin, being at The White House on 9/11 and the phone conversation he had with his wife that day.

Ann Delisi talks with her longtime friend and colleague, Don Gonyea, about getting the call to cover The White House for NPR, the protocol for the daily press briefings, the logistics of being in the press corps on Air Force One and covering President Donald Trump.

Ann Delisi continues her conversation with Prince’s longtime audio engineer and Berklee College of Music Professor, Susan Rogers. In Part Two, they discuss the two musicians whose tour support he anonymously paid to keep their careers going, how he created his own competition and when she realized it was time to leave.

Ann Delisi talks with Prince’s longtime audio engineer and Berklee College of Music Professor, Susan Rogers, about meeting him for the first time, the song she loved that he made her erase and the rehearsals for the Purple Rain Tour

Saxophonist Dave McMurray recalls his work with fellow musician and producer, Don Was, working with The Rolling Stones and his Blue Note Records debut album “Music Is Life”

Radio DJ and Programmer, Mike Halloran, talks about getting on the radio at WDET in Detroit, legendary Detroit DJ The Electrifying Mojo, discovering The Violent Femmes and seeing Bjork wearing an Underground Resistance jacket in Stockholm

Internationally acclaimed conductor, Leonard Slatkin, takes the listener inside the world of Classical Music and explains what exactly it is that a conductor does.

Dynamic Detroit singer and prolific songwriter, Jax Anderson, talks with Ann Delisi about making her own instruments as a kid and the beginnings of her band, Flint Eastwood.

Songwriter Allee Willis talks about working with Earth Wind and Fire, her time with Bob Dylan and James Brown and the “September.”

Barrett Strong tells Ann Delisi the history behind Motown hit songs “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Money (That’s What I Want).”