John Morrison joins host Raina Douris

After finding success with their debut in 1993, Digable Planets pushed back against the alternative hip hop label they were given with their second album: the rougher edged Blowout Comb. On a new Culture Corner, correspondent John Morrison talks about that album 30 years later.

Listen to the session here.

Today’s Playlist
The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” Road to Ruin
The Yardbirds “Over Under Sideways Down” Roger The Engineer
Digable Down “Blowing Down” Blowout Comb
Digable Planets “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Digable Planets “9th Wonder (Blackitolism)” Blowout Comb
Digable Planets “The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug” Blowout Comb
Digable Planets “Jettin'” Blowout Comb
Radiohead “Major Picture Soundtrack” Kid A
Janelle Monae “Tightrope” The ArchAndroid
Thee Sacred Souls “Live For You” Got A Story To Tell
The Heptones “Baby, I Need Your Loving” Night Food
Adele “Set Fire to the Rain” 21
Michigander “Giving Up” (single)
Joe Jackson “Fools In Love” Look Sharp!
Waxahachee “Bored” Tigers Blood
The Kinks “Starstruck” The Village Green Preservation Society

Hour Two
Jimmy Cliff “Sitting In Limbo” Another Cycle
The Weather Station “Neon Signs” Humanhood
The National “Guilty Party” Sleep Well Beast
Duran Duran “Hungry Like The Wolf” Rio
The Dare “All Night” What’s Wrong With New York?
Zach Bryan “28” The Great American Bar Scene
The Head and the Heart “Shake” WC Recording
John Legend “Ordinary People” WC Recording
Hozier “Eat Your Young” Unreal Unearth
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls” Please
Leon Bridges “Peaceful Place” Leon
Coldplay “Politik” A Rush of Blood to the Head
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings “What We Had” Woodland
Crosby Stills & Nash “See the Changes” CSN
The Heavy Heavy “Feel” One of a Kind