Michael Kiwanuka’s latest album Kiwanuka is being heralded as among the best of the year. It follows up the success of 2016’s Love & Hate which featured “Cold Little Heart” - you may have heard that song used in the opening credits for HBO’s Big Little Lies. Michael Kiwaunka talks about how the show changed his life, his struggle with self-doubt and how he has finally come into his own.

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In Rush songs like “Tom Sawyer’ & “Closer to the Heart” singer Geddy Lee shows off his massive vocal range. But it’s the low-end melodies of Lee’s bass guitar that are the focus of Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass. On the next World Cafe, Lee geeks out over his bass collection and some of his favourite bass lines from The Who, U2, Marvin Gaye and others.

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(Photo: Geddy Lee outside the World Cafe Performance Studio at WXPN in Philadelphia - Makena Duffy/WXPN)

2019 was an incredible year for music, and hosts Raina Douris and Stephen Kallao look back on the year that was, featuring song from Lizzo, Bruce Springsteen, Raphael Saddiq, Billy Eilish, Maggie Rogers, Bon Iver, Lana Del Rey and more.

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(Photo: Hosts Stephen Kallao, left, and Raina Douris – Courtesy of World Cafe)

Joan Shelley is a proud Kentucky native, but she looked for inspiration far from home in making her new album, Like the River Loves the Sea. Along with her musical partner, Nathan Salsburg, she traveled to Iceland to record – There they found a wonderful string section, but absolutely no banjos on the island, much to Joan’s disappointment. We’ll hear all about the experience in her conversation with host Stephen Kallao today. And she performs a set of her beautiful new songs before a live audience.

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