Rufus Wainwright Performs, Listening Party with Marty Stuart, Noshing on Noodles, Abraham Verghese on His New Novel
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On June 2, Rufus Wainwright will release a new album of cover songs, titled Folkocracy, which features David Byrne, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, John Legend and many others. He stops by to perform live in our studio, in the midst of a residency at Café Carlyle exploring the music of Kurt Weill.
Today is the release day of Marty Stuart's new album, Altitude, his first album in six years. The Grammy winning artist and Country Music Hall of Famer wrote the album while touring with The Byrds, who inspired him to dig back into his roots after fifty years of working in the Nashville music scene. Stuart joins us for a release day Listening Party.
The latest cookbook from Milk Street founder Christopher Kimball is all about noodles! He joins us to discuss Milk Street Noodles: Secrets to the World’s Best Noodles, from Fettuccine Alfredo to Pad Thai to Miso Ramen, and take your calls.
Dr. Abraham Verghese made headlines for writing the bestselling novel, Cutting For Stone, all the while remaining in practice as a doctor. Over a decade later Verghese returns with his second novel, The Covenant of Water, which follows a family in India with a strange curse: one member of each generation seems destined to die by drowning. Verghese joins us to discuss.
