Today's Top Tune

Today's Top Tune

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Today's Top Tune episodes

  • Jade Bird: ‘Headstart’
    Written at the beginning of this year, after a year spent on the road Jade Bird continues to sharpen her storytelling skills with “Headstart” a light-hearted song about a crush who can’t see the signs.
    3 min
  • Daniel Lanois: ‘Under The (Heavy Sun)’
    We know him for his work with the greats including U2, Brian Eno, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Peter Gabriel to name a very few but it’s rare that 11-time Grammy Award winning producer Daniel Lanois shares his own work. “Under The (Heavy Sun)”...
    4 min
  • The Staves: ‘Good Woman’
    Sister trio The Staves are back with a new album after a six year hiatus. Written and recorded in spite of great turmoil and change they sound solid and strong on the title track “Good Woman.”
    4 min
  • Sturgill Simpson: ‘I Don’t Mind’
    You can take the man out of Kentucky, but you can’t take Kentucky out of the man. That’s the verdict from Sturgill Simpson who returns to the music of his native land with his first bluegrass project. While recovering at home after being...
    5 min
  • Beau: ‘Dance With Me’
    Beau’s “Dance With Me” is a pandemic love letter to downtown NYC nightlife and how much it’s missed. Recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios, the track is imbued with enough energy to power a small city.
    4 min
  • Million Miles: ‘Dance With Me’
    Raised in Paris and trained at Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, Sophie Baudry aka Million Miles, felt the pull of American soul music and artists like Ray Charles and Bill Withers so she made her way to Nashville to write and record her...
    4 min
  • Azymuth: ‘Pulando Corda’
    The instrumental trio Azymuth can take credit for modernizing the sound of Brazilian jazz and has continued to build on their sound for the last five decades. Partnering with LA-based collective Jazz Is Dead on a brand new album we amplify...
    4 min
  • Sierra Ferrell: ‘Why'd Ya Do It’
    We’re looking forward to the debut album by Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sierra Ferrell. As the self-described singer says she has a “country heart but a jazz mind” as we hear on “Why’d Ya Do It.”
    4 min
  • Raul Pacheco: ‘Cruisin’ Song'
    When Raul Pacheco, a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Ozomatli, was asked about his latest song, he proudly stated: “ It is an homage to the neighborhood I grew up in, Boyle Heights in Los Angeles. Like other songs I’ve written,...
    4 min

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