World Cafe 30th Anniversary show with host Raina Douris

Through the Spring of 2022, we’re going back in time to revisit some of the best World Cafe moments for the show’s 30th anniversary. This week, it’s a twenty year-old session with John Mayer – He stopped by the Cafe just days before releasing his major label debut, Room for Squares, which went on to become his best-selling album and won him a Grammy. Plus, in a more recent conversation with Mavis Staples, we’ll hear the story of the time Dr. Martin Luther King requested the Staples Singers to perform his favorite song, “Why Am I Treated So Bad?” All that, and a new rising is inducted into World Cafe’s 30 under 30 list.

*Beth Orton “Central Reservation” Central Reservation
John Mayer “No Such Thing” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
John Mayer “My Stupid Mouth” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
The Staples Singers “Freedom Highway” Freedom Highway (1991)
The Staples Singers “Why Am I Treated So Bad” Freedom Highway (1991)
Lucy Dacus “Brando” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Lucy Dacus “Addictions” Historian
boygenius “Me & My Dog” boygenius EP
Julien Baker “Faith Healer” Little Oblivions
Suzanne Vega “Luka” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
The National “Mistaken For Strangers” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
James Blake “Limit To Your Love” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Alanis Morissette “Everything” Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Lindsey Buckingham “Big Love” Recorded Live for the World Cafe

Hour Two
*Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band “The Mountain” The Mountain
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” Californication
Macy Gray “I Try” On How Life Is
Wilco “A Shot In The Arm” Summerteeth
The Flaming Lips “Waitin’ For A Superman” The Soft Bulletin
The Magnetic Fields “The Book of Love” 69 Love Songs
John Prine “In Spite of Ourselves (ft. Iris DeMent)” In Spite of Ourselves
Beck “Sexxlaws” Midnite Vultures
Moby “Natural Blues” Play
Santana “(Da Le) Yaleo” Supernatural
Shelby Lynne “Thought It Would Be Easier” I Am Shelby Lynne
Fiona Apple “Fast As You Can” When The Pawn…
Travis “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?” The Man Who

*Optional Song