{"id":974232,"date":"2020-01-02T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=932182"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:15:40","slug":"common-rufus-wainwright-prep-new-projects-for-audible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/common-rufus-wainwright-prep-new-projects-for-audible\/","title":{"rendered":"Common, Rufus Wainwright Prep New Projects for Audible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Common<\/a> and Rufus Wainwright<\/a> are set to release new Audible<\/a> Original productions, respectively titled Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life<\/i> and Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York. <\/i>Exact release dates have yet to be announced, but both projects will arrive this year.<\/p>\n

Both projects are described as \u201caudio-only musical narratives\u201d and will boast a unique mix of storytelling and music. Common\u2019s Bluebird Memories<\/i> will find him exploring the various writers and musicians who have inspired him, while Road Trip Elegies<\/i> finds Wainwright recreating a journey between Montreal and New York City that he frequently took with his late mother, the Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle.<\/p>\n

Common\u2019s Bluebird Memories <\/i>will notably be taken from a live show Common is set to perform over three nights at Audible\u2019s Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, January 10th through 12th (tickets are on sale Thursday, January 2nd, via Ticketmaster<\/a>). The show will find Common discussing writers and musicians like James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rakim and Melle Mel, and delving into how he \u201clooked to their oeuvres for motivation and as a high-water mark for what would become his life in words.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Common tells Rolling Stone:<\/i> \u201cAs I\u2019ve been digging deep into the writings of authors, poets and M.C.s who inspired me, it has reminded me of how much I love words and the infinite space that great writing holds in my life. Their writings make me want to be better and continue to grow and learn life in all of its dimensions. Being a part of this initiative has been so inspiring and reinvigorating as an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As for Wainwright, Road Trip Elegies<\/i> is described as \u201ca coming-of-age journey from childhood to adulthood\u201d with the trip between Montreal and New York representing \u201cboth a physical and metaphorical life journey for him, one that oscillates between the emotional poles of his divorced mother and father.\u201d The project will boast a mix of field recordings, selections from Wainwright\u2019s catalogue and live performances recorded at McCabe\u2019s Guitar Store in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoin me on a fall journey from Montreal to New York City, a fabled route both in terms of its beauty and cultural richness,\u201d Wainwright says. \u201cI recount impressions, interspersed with memories and live music I later perform at L.A.\u2019s fabled McCabes guitar shop; songs inspired by the voyage, everything from Bob Dylan, my parents work, Cole Porter to Verdi. I will also premiere a couple of new numbers not available anywhere else, it will be a truly unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bluebird Memories<\/i> and Road Trip Elegies<\/i> follow a pair of similar Audible Originals from Patti Smith<\/a> and Tom Morello<\/a>. James Taylor is also prepping an audio memoir<\/a> for Audible, Break Shot<\/i>, that\u2019s set to arrive in 2020 as well.<\/p>\n

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Common and Rufus Wainwright are set to release new Audible Original productions, respectively titled Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics and Life and Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York. Exact release dates have yet to be announced, but both projects will arrive this year. Both projects are described as \u201caudio-only musical narratives\u201d and will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 07:09:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}