Trauma, Medicine, Pain and Beauty with Jessica Robbins of Course: The Echoes Podcast

John Diliberto and Course’s Jessica Robbins

In the Echoes Podcast, Ankylosing Spondylitis, a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror.  It’s an exploration of her years-long journey to find a diagnosis, a treatment and relief, if not a full cure. Medical travails have rarely sounded so haunting and beautiful.

Jess Robbins: I didn’t want to dwell on the pain, even though it’s in there. I didn’t want to be so on the nose with all the songs, besides MRI.

Join John Diliberto when he brings us the fascinating story of Jessica Robbins and Course, on Echoes from PRX. You can purchase her album exclusively from the Spondylitis Association of America