No-No Boy joins host Raina Douris

Julian Saporiti may have grown up in Nashville, but it took decades for him to be able to write the kind of folk music you find on his latest album as No-No Boy. On the next World Cafe, he talks about drawing from his own family’s difficult past–his mother left Vietnam in 1968 after his grandfather was killed in the Tet Offensive–as well as other immigrant stories to create a moving, very personal history lesson.

*Emmylou Harris “I Don’t Want To Talk About It Now” Red Dirt Girl
No-No Boy “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
No-No Boy “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony” 1975
No-No Boy “Tell Hanoi I Love Her” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
No-No Boy “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming” 1975
No-No Boy “Khmerica” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” Stranger in the Alps
Phoenix “Everything is Everything” Alphabetical

Hour Two
*Sade “Smooth Operator” Diamond Life
Japanese Breakfast “Be Sweet” Jubilee
R.E.M. “Pop Song 89” Green
The Killers “Somebody Told Me” Hot Fuss
Serena Ryder “Better Now” The Art of Falling Apart
Jonatha Brooke “Better After All” Back in the Circus
The Howlers “I Don’t Love You All The Time” I Don’t Love You All The Time (single)
Arctic Monkeys “One For The Road” AM
Radiohead “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” In Rainbows
Sofia Valdes “Gems” Ventura EP
David Byrne “Dirty Old Town” Rei Momo
Brownout “Fight The Power” Fear Of A Brown Planet
Amythyst Kiah “Black Myself” Black Myself (single)
Lenny Kravitz “Always On The Run” Mama Said
Blu DeTiger “Figure it Out” How Did We Get Here?

*Optional Song