Words That Sing

Join us as we explore how the greatest songwriters use music to tell deeply human stories. Featuring powerful performances and insights from Harry Chapin, Taylor Goldsmith, Don McLean, and Mark Cohn, this episode celebrates the transformative power of listening to songs that illuminate our shared experience. Discover why storytelling through music matters—and how singing itself makes the world a better place.

We’ve settled into our usual rhythm at our favorite beach spot, where we come twice a year. Our mornings begin in that early blue light, coffee in hand, watching the waves find their way to shore. Before long, the pelicans arrive, gliding just above the water, and the dolphins begin their quiet patrol, as if they’ve been expecting us.

There’s something about this place that loosens things a bit.

Time stretches. Music sounds different. Even the old songs seem to carry a little more light in them.

So I’ve let this episode follow that feeling.

I’ve called it “Music from the Sea,” music that moves with the spirit of the shore and take us somewhere: to boardwalks and shrimp burgers, to voices carried on the wind, to moments and memories that last a lifetime.

You may find yourself humming along to one… or smiling at another.

That tends to happen here.

This show is about the magic that happens when words and music meet.

About the way songs can say what ordinary speech often can not.

About how listening—really listening—can make us feel a little less alone.

So wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing,

I invite you to slow down for a little while and listen along with me.

This show is about the magic that happens when words and music meet.

About the way songs can say what ordinary speech often can not.

About how listening—really listening—can make us feel a little less alone.

So wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing,

I invite you to slow down for a little while and listen along with me.

This show is about the magic that happens when words and music meet.

About the way songs can say what ordinary speech often can not.

About how listening—really listening—can make us feel a little less alone.

So wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing,

I invite you to slow down for a little while and listen along with me.

Music as a form of remembering our Past, Present and Future selves

This show is about the magic that happens when words and music meet. About the way songs can say what ordinary speech often can not. About how listening—really listening—can make us feel a little less alone.

So wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing, I invite you to slow down for a little while and listen along with me.

On this episode we explore a collection of songs that move from introspection to inspiration.