Hurray For The Riff Raff joins host Stephen Kallao

Hurray For The Riff Raff band leader Alynda Segarra says of their latest record: it’s a memoir. And Life On Earth DOES sound decidedly more personal and intimate than the band’s previous work, like the big, bold statement made with their 2017 album, The Navigator. On the next encore edition of the World Cafe, Segarra joins host Stephen Kallao to talk about this musical transformation, which took root during the pandemic. We’ll hear the whole story, and Hurray For The Riff Raff performs some of the music, live. 

*The Blue Nile “Stay” A Walk Across The Rooftop
Hurray For The Riff Raff “Pierced Arrows” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Hurray For the Riff Raff “Pointed At The Sun” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Hurray For the Riff Raff “Life on Earth” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Hurray For the Riff Raff “Precious Cargo” Life on Earth
Hurray For the Riff Raff “Saga” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
UB40 “Red Red Wine” Labour Of Love
Low Cut Connie “Private Lives” Private Lives

Hour Two
*Mondo Cozmo “Plastic Soul” Plastic Soul
Brittany Spencer “Sober & Skinny” Single
Brittany Spencer “Compassion” Compassion (e.p.)
R.L. Burnside “It’s Bad You Know” Come On In
Susan Tedeschi “Gonna Move” Wait for Me
Arlo Parks “Softly” Single
U2 “Lemon” Zooropa
Lo Moon “Dream Never Dies” A Modern Life
Allison Russell “NIghtflyer” Outside Child
Kevin Morby “So Far Away” Amazon Original Single
Matthew Sweet “Looking At The Sun” Girlfriend
Franz Ferdinand “Right Action” Right Thoughts, Right Word

*Optional Song