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Let us surprise you. Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning. Tonight in Los Angeles the music world celebrates its best and brightest at the Grammy Awards here on CBS. and throughout the morning we'll be hearing from an array of musicians, Grammy-nominated and otherwise, as we get ready for music's biggest night.
But some of the most memorable songs in American life aren't Grammy winners or even hits. They're TV theme songs. and this morning we'll play Name That Tune with David Pogue. You don't need to hear more than a few notes. Sunday, Monday, happy days.
to recognize a classic TV theme song.
So, why have most of them disappeared? I think most of it is evil corporate greed. Ahead on Sunday morning. The Past and Future of the TV theme song. Speaking of the Grammys, singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy, leader of the popular indie rock band Wilco, is a four-time winner himself.
and critics are calling his latest solo work perhaps the best of his career. He'll talk with Anthony Mason. Oh, yeah. As frontman of the band Wilco, Jeff Tweedy leads a devoted army of fans. Does that feel like a responsibility?
It feels, yeah, like having a congregation of some sort. The Grammy-winning singers' latest solo project is a triple album. You needed to do this? Does anybody need to do anything? How much Jeff Tweety.
Later on Sunday morning. She's a best-selling author, hosts a wildly successful podcast. and is among the world's most influential self-help experts. Nora O'Donnell will chart Mel Robbins' unlikely rise to media stardom. She's emotional, practical, learned to let other people be who they are, and immensely popular.
I cannot tell you how excited I am for today's conversation. Positive thinking and profit making. How Mel Robbins used her own struggles to shake up the self-help world. How nice you got your podcast studio right here. Coming up on Sunday morning.
Also this morning. Ted Coppel takes us to the Arkansas Ozarks to tackle the thorny issue of black bear hunting. Robert Costa catches up with Grammy nominee Jesse Wells, who's helping to bring protest music back to the mainstream. Plus a story from Steve Hartman. We'll tell you about the invention that gave the Grammy its name.
And more. On the first Sunday morning of a new month, February 1st, 2016. Yeah. We'll be back in just a minute. Thanks to conservation efforts, black bear populations are rising across the United States.
also arising dangerous bare encounters, as suburban areas encroach on habitats. To begin this morning, senior contributor Ted Coppel explores the complicated and contentious subject of bear hunting. Consider this treasured family photograph. as something of a national Rorschach test. What do you see?
A proud young father, introducing his infant son, to the joy and satisfaction of a successful hunt? or, alternatively, something vaguely inappropriate. I was just a couple of months old and he's over a deer that he'd shot with a traditional bow. I went home and got him, put him in the pack and retrieved the deer. And that's an iconic photo of us.
Fair warning, this family you're about to meet, their friends, that infant now fully grown, all come down overwhelmingly on the side of the hunters. The tangible nature of hunting, the responsibility that comes from hunting, to be able to use a firearm, to go into the wild, the land ethic that has to be understood to be a hunter. is a really unique way to raise up a child. Clay Newcomb is a lifelong hunter and historian of bear hunting. in North America.
How many days do you want to hunt? Three till three.
Okay. Bear Newcombe and Bear is not a nickname, it's his legal first name. Is twenty now. He's been trekking bear in the woods of Arkansas and beyond since he was eleven. what he learned those first few years was an incredible degree of patience.
A very low odds hunt.
So it took me five years, and then eventually I said. I just need to go out there Stay for a couple days. And that's what he did. Bear was 15 when this video was shot. I've seen the video and when you said goodbye to your dad.
And he was being a very proud father, and you were a very embarrassed son at that point. By the time you came back, then you had the bear. It was different. I would say so, absolutely. It was a accomplishment of a Five-year goal.
I've never really gotten super emotional after killing an animal, except that one. I did tear up a little bit on that one. It was just so fulfilling. For the newcomers and their friends, bear hunting in September is tradition. Top 10.
To be clear though, while the music around the campfire was intended to pleasantly pass a little time, It was also meant to cover an awkward period of waiting. One of the visitors, Lake Pickle, an experienced bow hunter from Mississippi, had never hunted bear before, and just a couple of hours earlier, he shot a black bear.
Some poor sailor. Does he still have your arrow in his side or? We don't know. Oh no, sir, the Arab passed through. But he's bleeding.
Yes, sir. A bear that's shot well will expire very quickly. very quickly. two minutes. You're going to be able to follow that spore.
Later tonight or first thing tomorrow morning? They searched, though it was soon clear that this bear had not been well shot. Good news for the bear. A bitter pill for Lake Pickle. I think I shot him too high.
Yeah. We'll get him next time. We believe that it just really just clipped the top of his back and it ended up being a non-mortal wound. That's the part of hunting that we don't like to talk about. It's the part of hunting that we have nightmares about because the last thing we want to do is to to shoot an animal that we don't recover.
That's not something we're proud of. Even so, there was more than one hunter around the campfire that evening. Who wondered why those of us who harvest our food in a supermarket would be so concerned about the survival of a bear. Josh Spielmaker for one.
So they attribute feelings toward a bear that they wouldn't necessarily attribute to a chicken in a chicken house somewhere. and that makes them feel differently about us harvesting a bear to eat. And the fact of the matter is, they're not, it's not Winnie the Pooh that we're out killing. What a lot of people miss is that. Like the beef that you're getting at the store is coming from a cow that has terrible quality of life.
There's nothing casual about the newcomers' commitment to bear hunting. What are the different pieces of this bow? Bear Newcomb spent 60 hours fashioning this bow out of Osage orange. It's a wood that's strong in tension and compression. But here I've got sturgeon skins on the back of it, water buffalo horns on the tips, deer antler right there, moose leather from Alaska.
That moon right there, that is a seashell that I picked up in Texas. There is something deliberate about every phase of bear hunting. The arrows are bad. From crafting that bow to rendering a bear's fat. Because it renders down into some of the finest oil on planet Earth.
Who will use it and how? We will use this bear grease. For Anything that you would use oil for. Strong taste? No taste.
That's what makes it good. And it was so good back on the American frontier and with the indigenous people because it didn't go rancid as quickly as pork fat or beef fat.
So at one time, Ted, the Mississippi River would have been like a major funnel and highway through the Black Bear Range. You make me a little nervous with that knife. He's dodged that knife his whole life. At one time in the mid-1700s, 14% of the entire exports going out of New Orleans to the world was bare fat, bare grease, bare grease. Yeah.
A jar of bear grease actually becomes a beautiful thing inside your house that's so good. Like a candle? It bisects into a clear olive oil liquid, a thicker, opaque, lard-like substance. And Native Americans in the Southwest believed that you could forecast the weather based upon the line and the barrel oil. Bear grease is a metaphor.
things forgotten but relevant. And those are the stories that we tell. unregulated market hunting, shooting bear for commerce, for the sale of meat and hide. all but wiped out the black bear in Arkansas and beyond. My name is Clay Newcomb, and this is the Bear Grease podcast.
On his podcast, Bear Grease. Clay profiled what may have been the most prolific bear hunter of all time. Holt Collier A former slave who at one point worked as a hunting guide for Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt wrote an article that included Holt Collier, and he said that Holt Collier killed 3,000 bears. It was a different era.
We were not talking about sports hunting, that's right, market hunting. Those days are long gone. Hunting and the hunters have totally changed. We had a tough century. in the 1800s, but We, hunters have really been the champions of wildlife.
and preservation of wild places. Hunters were the people in 1954 that brought back in bears during a 10-year period, restocked bears into Arkansas. It sounds counterintuitive. We love the wildlife, but we get out there and we kill it. And that's why it's a complicated story.
What finished off market hunting, of course, what satisfied our national appetite for fresh meat. has been the mass production of chicken, cattle, and hogs. But that's another story for another day. To Clay Newcomb and his fellow hunters, what they do and how they do it stands up well to any comparison with the modern alternatives. To clay then.
The last word. To me, when I take wild game, I know exactly where that animal lived. I know what it ate. I know how it was processed. But if you eat meat that you buy from the grocery store and you want to compare that to the ethics of me eating a bear, that came out of these mountains.
you're going to lose that. Argument. every time I would say it's far more ethical. far more sustainable. Then uh Confinement agriculture.
Thomas Edison often gets credit for the invention of recorded sound. This is a cornet solo recorded on Edison's phonograph back in 1878. But Edison's attempt to commercialize his invention relied on fragile cylinders. which could only be played a few dozen times. Yes, they were remarkable, but far from perfect.
It was Emile Berliner who would find a better way. Berliner's gramophone, invented in 1887, played flat discs instead of cylinders. Early versions of the disc were made of rubber and later shellac. They were durable, easy to store, and, most importantly, could be mass produced from a single recording. Hmm.
That shift from cylinder to disc. made recorded music commercially viable for the first time. Yet Berliner's contributions weren't just technological. A Jewish immigrant from Germany. He quickly realized his invention would be of little use to people unless they had something to listen to.
Uh So in 1895, he formed the Berliner Gramophone Company. and began signing artists to record music that could be played on his gramophone. Though Berliner was later forced out amid patent disputes, His company's legacy endured. It eventually became the Victor Talking Machine Company. and later.
RCA Victor. And with the likes of Enrico Caruso. Perry Como. Catch a falling star and put it in your pockets. Save it for a rainy day.
And Elvis Presley. Take a walk down along the street to hop ready for there where you will be. RCA became one of the most powerful labels of the 20th century. Uh Which explains why in 1958 when the music industry was creating a statue for its new award. They settled not on a microphone or a phonograph.
but on Emile Berliner's gramophone. Yet another chapter in the history of these United States. The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour.
Most television-themed songs like The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle may not have had radio play, reached the pop charts, or won a Grammy. but, as David Pogue reminds us, they remain some of the most memorable songs ever recorded. Ah! You probably know a lot of TV theme songs.
Sometimes you want to.
Some you might know from having watched the shows yourself. You don't want to I'm not sure if I can do it. Others You may know even if they were before your time. Television themes can be kind of a cultural touchstone for people, reminding them what special time or place of their generally their youth. Film music historian John Burlingame is the author of a book about T V music.
He says that the very first T V theme songs were inspired by music from radio and theater. The Lone Ranger. And that in turn drew on the theatrical tradition of an overture and exit music in the theater. When TV was a new, unfamiliar medium, the theme song had to establish the premise of the show's story. A horse is a horse, of course, of course.
And no one can talk to a horse, of course. And explain to viewers that it is a story. It's the story of a man named Frady. Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed, a poor mountaineer. Who were these composers?
Many of the composers were either from Tinpan Alley Or had come from the movie business, that was also an era where people like John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. were just getting started and they started in TV. Yeah. Wonder what man Wonder what man. Charles Fox has written film scores, operas, musicals, and pop songs.
Including the Grammy-winning Killing Me Softly with his song. Killing Me Softly with His Song. But he may be best known for his TV theme songs. Will you name the most famous ones? Love Boat.
The Vernon Shirley, Wonder Woman. Love America style. Angie? Paper Chase. And of course, Happy Days.
Sunday, Monday, Happy Days. Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days. Thursday, Friday. I always thought of my theme as coming on the air. While someone got up to go to the refrigerator, I always like to think of a theme as an old friend.
A good old friend, and you hear this. Oh, I like that guy. I like the show. Boom. Go back and watch the show.
Now, this is a story all about how my life. But as the TV audience evolved, TV themes did too. I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. They evolved. and got shorter.
Some shows that had had full-length songs offered only a few seconds of it in later seasons.
Some opening themes were only A single cord. And why? Partly to make more time for ads. and partly because audiences no longer needed as much setup. No Superman.
We know the characters by s by season twelve. Yeah. And we don't necessarily need to be introduced in the same leisurely way we once were.
So it's not all. evil corporate greed. It might also just be society growing up. I think most of it is evil corporate greed. Yeah.
Uh And then something amazing happened. But there's snow. HBO began commissioning full-length themes for shows like Succession. Rome. The Leftovers Westworld.
And of course, Game of Thrones. And in the streaming era, TV episodes could now be any length. These are a minute and a half, two minutes long. Have we gone back to the golden age? I think in fact we have gone back to a golden age.
Some of these HBO shows really paved the way for what prestige television was going to be and I think it has affected the whole industry. Theodore Shapiro wrote the music for the Apple TV hit Severance. Four haunting chords alternating between pleasant. and dissonant. You're constantly cycling between consonants to dissonance to consonants to dissonance.
dissonance. The dissonances are You know, jarring enough to make you want to hear them resolved. And so it's just a constant motion, yeah, of like sort of wanting to. wanting to get uncomfortable and then wanting that to resolve. It seems to me that the dawn of the long two-minute opening theme of prestige television.
coincides with the invention of the skip intro button. All right. How do I address this? Nothing drives me more insane than the skip intro button, which I think should be abolished from all television. Uh operations worldwide.
And the intro is an integral part of the show. And I'm, yeah, I know I'm just going on now like an angry old man. but it does drive me insane. For movie composer Teddy Shapiro, Severance was his first opening theme for a TV show. In the streaming era, he now has the time, budget, and creative freedom to bring his skills to TV.
The lines are so blurred at this point. You know, there's so much good work being done in television. And there's so much good work being done in film. I just don't feel that that dichotomy exists anymore. Give us any chance, we'll take it.
As for Charlie Fox, he's still composing and he's still being heard. You're a composer. Whose music has been in continuous airplay for fifty, sixty years. Hundreds of millions of people know it, but probably don't know you. Felt like the luckiest guy in the world.
I'm sitting here writing music. I get up in the morning, my piano calls to me. At the end of the week, I'm on the recording studio recording a big orchestra, people singing my songs. It's just all I ever wanted to do. Right there.
You'd be hard pressed to find a more respected performer and songwriter than Jeff Tweedy. The Wilco frontman is also a four-time Grammy winner. with Anthony Mason. Jeff Tweedy is our Sunday profile. Jeff Tweedy has released more than two dozen records in his career.
I think it might like But he may have outdone himself with his latest triple album. Twilight Override. I've always thought of you as prolific. But this is big even for you. It's a heapin' heapin' helpin'.
You needed to do this? Um Does anybody need to do anything? And you know, we whittled it down from almost five records. Did you really? Yeah.
How much Shooter blows a smoking mouse. Twilight Override is a solo project from the 58-year-old singer. Best known as the frontman of the rock band Wilco. You have a bit of a guitar addiction, it appears. I have a normal amount of guitars.
We met at The Loft, the band's rehearsal area and recording studio in Chicago. My wife comes up and she gets angry.
So angry. What does she see? All the money? I don't know if she's it's not necessarily the money. I think it's just the the gluttony.
You get some comfort from this whole being here somehow? I get inspired by it. I mean, it's almost like that scene in Willy Wonka when you open the Chocolate River and. Chocolate room. I open that door every day and go, oh.
What's going to happen? Good. Yeah. As a songwriter, Tweety constantly collects phrases that become the puzzle pieces of potential songs. There's a lyric that didn't make it, grated parmesan in my eye.
What was happening that day? I don't know.
Okay, this is ended up on a lyric. In the window, I have a twin, I look out, he sees in. I have it too. I look out. He looks in.
He has a His workmanlike approach comes from his family. Yeah, I grew up in southern Illinois. His father was a railroad laborer. My dad's The switching yard where he worked was in East St. Louis.
The idea was: if this didn't work out, I guess I'd work on the railroad. Maybe after. I want a Grammy. That's when the f the penny dropped. I think that this might be something legitimate.
Free samples only 50 cents. Tweety's songwriting has made him an icon in the indie rock world. Is the window open? Oh yeah. Hi.
Hi. But maybe not beyond. Hold on, can I ask you a filming? What did we filming? We're filming a story for a CBS Sunday morning.
It's not this guy. Yeah. He's really famous. He's a famous magician. Tweety can find inspiration even in Italian ices.
Anything that Reminds you not to postpone joy. It may be helpful. In terms of inspiration? In terms of inspiration and just building a strategy for. Survival.
It's something he learned twenty years ago when he was recovering from opioid addiction. I was in the hospital. Mental hospital. And It was the only thing I remember So you want Do not postpone Happiness. And it just made the most sense to me of anything anybody had said up to that point.
Maybe Be the song will Um I wanna take In these chaotic times, Tweedy says, music is as important to him as it's ever been. It's the only place, A, I feel like I have, I'm powerful in any kind of way. Music is my Savior. Uh You said something that I really love, which is you said creativity eats darkness. It's well, I mean, it's hard to be Scared?
When you're singing a song. In particular, a certain type of music making. uh feels very Grounding, and that is singing harmony vocals with your family. Make a record. With your friends.
Tweedy's band for the album includes his two sons, Spencer and Sammy.
Some of these s songs we heard uh many of them the day that they were written 'cause he would just show us the voice memo or pl or play it on guitar like right after writing it. Yeah. We really did treat it. like playing catch as a kid, you know. We didn't do a lot of playing catch, but we did do a lot of playing music together.
You're telling yourself a story. Squeezy's other band, Wheelco, which earned a gold record for their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. And a Grammy for a ghost is porn. has been making music for more than 30 years now. You've called Wilco a rare middle class band.
Upper middle class, probably, but most standards. What does that mean exactly? We're the rare band in that strata that I think has never really had a massive hit, or what has sustained it hasn't necessarily been radio play or album sales, even. It's really been kind of like this steady. Touring.
Uh endeavor. A devoted army of fans now follows them on the road. Look at you. And the sun. The camaraderie, the connection that they have, that we can't compete with that.
I think all we can do is not let them down. Does that feel like a responsibility? It feels like having a congregation of some sort. I want to feel like I deserve it. And part of wanting to feel like I deserve it means maintaining some sense of gratitude.
Ew. Right. Bit of bumps. Stars. A sense of gratitude, Jeff Tweedy says.
for the simple things. Just a couple guys enjoying an Italian ice on a bench. Whoosh. If you want to try it, you feel free. Do you take A bytes?
You wanna try the horchiata? I've had it. I love it. It's good. In these anxious times, we could all use a little self-help.
which explains why so many are looking to best-selling author and podcaster Mel Robbins for guidance. She's in conversation with Nora O'Donnell. Oh no! Welcome to the world of Mel Robbins. This self-help powerhouse and your staff greet all visitors with applause, hugs.
Thank you for coming to Boston. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Hi. And a button.
You get your own name tag. When I walked in here, everybody has on a name tag. Yes. Why is that? I just think it's an important thing in life.
to really operate in a way where other people know that they matter. And that you go out of your way to make people feel seen. And name tags are one way you can do it. In three years, we have now grown to these studio spaces here. At 57, the married mother of three is definitely making a name for herself.
with an international best selling book, one of the most listened to podcasts, and a multimedia machine that spreads her motivational messages across the digital landscape. We have the singular person in mind, a person with no time who's waking up somewhere around the world who just wants to feel better. Wants to do a little bit better, wants their family to feel better and do better. And I'm already crying. Why does that make you cry?
I think because we're living in a moment in time where people feel very lonely. And they're very overwhelmed for good reasons, and they feel disconnected. From things that bring their life meaning, where research and science and facts are under attack. And so to have created something in just three years that's making a positive global impact. one person at a time.
That is humbling. Today, I am sharing seven powerful reminders.
So how did this former lawyer, she's not a licensed therapist, become a wildly popular guru of positivity and empowerment? For starters, she says she's true to herself. I 1000% in the same person at my core. What has changed is I understand. the reasons why I struggled.
There's been a lot of that for the Michigan native. Even though she was voted most likely to succeed in high school, Robin said she had undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia. And this went on until I was 47 years old.
So Even though I had a lot of anxiety. I now know had I actually been treated with ADHD. I probably wouldn't have had half the struggles that I had. She worked as a public defender and then in a law firm before going into business with her husband Christopher Robbins. Ventures that failed.
leaving them nearly a million dollars in debt. Robbins was forty one, unemployed. and bankrupt.
So rock bottom feels horrible. You feel like you're the only human being that has failed at life. And so you isolate and you beat yourself up and you start drinking too much and you start screaming at the people that are trying to help you, namely your husband. You were doing all of that. Oh my God, yes.
I was a walking bitch. I mean, I just was angry and upset and I was afraid we would not get out of this. Stuck is the single most misunderstood human experience. And it is foundational to being a human being. When you're thirsty, what do you need?
Water. When you are hungry, what do you need? Food. When you're stuck, do you know what you need? Motion.
Yes, growth. If you feel stuck in your life, it doesn't mean you're broken. It means that what's missing in your life is growth. And if I can get you to grow and learn in any area of your life, you start to change. And Robbins herself changed.
She became a life coach. My name is Mel Robbins. Which led to a memorable 2011 TED Talk. I'm going to tell you everything I know in less than 18 minutes. About how to get what you want.
Your than the podcast. I wanted to be certain that I told you, in case nobody else does, that I love you, I believe in you. And in 2024, The Let Them Theory, her blockbuster book.
So the let them theory is the single fastest way. to gain control on your life. is to stop trying to control and change everybody else. and let them when you learn to just let people be who they are You Have this incredible thing happen. You recognize that, probably, like me, you've been living your life in reverse.
You've been pouring all your energy into things you can't control, the number one thing being other people. and you've lost sight of where all the power is. which is in focusing on the let me part of the theory. Let me focus on what I think.
So how does let them only go so far? People only change. when they're ready to change for themselves. You gotta let them have the dignity of their own experience. You gotta let them heal or get sober or get motivated on their own timeline.
And you gotta understand the more judgment you bring. the more you're delaying the possibility that it's happening. How nice. You have your podcast studio right here. Right here.
Come on in. Make no mistake, Melrobbins is a profit-making endeavor with sponsors, merchandise, even a line of protein drinks. This is a big business. Mel, you're a media mogul now. I feel like I'm a mother of three that lives in Vermont that hopes hosts a podcast.
But here's. What I love. about what I do. I love the technology. I love the nuances.
What makes you exceptional at something? is paying attention to all the details. that most people ignore and don't understand are actually important. People tend to lean back because they're afraid, and I have always leaned in. Lean in is exactly what she does, talking about pretty much everything.
Most of the advice I'm giving is the stuff that I'm learning from people that are smarter than me, that are just like, why did I not think about that? And I mean everything. Have sex before you go out. Like, why would you have sex when you get home and you're so bloated or drunk or you feel terrible or you're exhausted? It's so funny.
It is true, but it's absolutely funny. But see, this is the kind of thing you would share with a girlfriend on a walk. Absolutely. We started having sex before we go out, now we're having sex all the time. It's absolutely amazing.
We ended our day with Mel Robbins with her greeting, Dr. Vonda Wright, a surgeon and women's health expert. Is there any concerns that you have? No, I just love that that book is full of little tabs to show that. How much you care?
Yes, Robbins is having a moment. One she embraces and hopes others of a certain age get to experience. I am so grateful all this happened late in life. I am so grateful because when you almost lose everything that matters. And let me tell you what matters, it's not the crap that people are chasing.
you're never going to see a hearse dragging a U-Haul to a cemetery. You're not going to take any of the stuff that you think is going to make you happy. to the grave with you. When life is over and you're near the end of your life, you're going to wish and hope if you've done it right. that you are surrounded by people that you love and that love you back.
Steve Hartman this morning has the story of a woman who proves that home is where the hope is. A few weeks ago, police officers in Syracuse, New York were surprised to find someone living. Amongst the dead. Mm-hmm. This is here and we don't have one.
The story of how 55-year-old Rhea Holmes came to live in a cemetery starts with the death of her husband. She and Addie had been married 26 glorious years and were planning to finally buy their dream house. And this was the home that we were going to purchase. It wasn't grand. But it would have been theirs.
So the offer got accepted. Yeah, the offer got accepted. And that same day, your husband died? Yes. So Rhea took the down payment and spent it on a cemetery plot instead.
with a bench for reminiscing. I'll lay here any time with you. Unfortunately, living in the past, took a real toll on her present. Left with little money and little left to live for, Rhea slipped into depression. lost her job.
and got evicted. She was too proud to move into a shelter.
So Rhea took up residence at the only place she felt she owned. Her husband's grave. This is what I purchased.
So you slept right here? Right here. And she lived there from last May. all the way through December. He could have died there.
I yes, I assumed that I was gonna die there. And then along comes an angel. Along comes an angel. Officer Jamie Pastorello is the angel who took Rhea under his wing after hearing about her plight. It was just the right thing to do and I wasn't going to let Riot sleep outside again.
you know, complete turnaround. In twenty days she went from sleeping on the cold hard ground in a cemetery to her own home. What Jamie did was start a crowdfunding campaign. And then connected Rhea with a non-profit called A Tiny Home for Good. Today, she still lives with her husband.
Hey, love it. Just now, more figuratively. I miss you so much. Obviously, nothing will ever replace Eddie. But we got a sense from this reunion and the multiple hugs she bestowed upon Officer Pastorello that this new friendship will keep Rhea from moving back to that cemetery.
Anytime soon. Here it is. They killed and roamed. In the winter of 26 We'll remember the names of those who died. On the streets of Minneapolis Bruce Springsteen released Streets of Minneapolis last week, a searing reaction to the violence in that city.
Protest songs have long been a force in pop culture. and now they're making a comeback. Thanks in part to singer-songwriter Jesse Wells. With Robert Costa, we take note. This land is your land, and this land is my land.
The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music.
Songs of the Great Depression. This land was made for you and me. The civil rights era. And the social revolutions of the sixties. Mm-hmm.
As folk singer Pete Seeger put it, A song isn't a speech. A song is not an editorial. If a song tries to be an editorial or a speech, Often it fails as a song. The best songs Tell a story, paint a picture, and leave the conclusion up actually to the listener. Hey, New York.
And if you're wondering whether folk music is still relevant today, Take a listen to Jesse Wells. It ain't the banks. And it ain't the taxes And ain't the payday loans and high-rent homes and predatory fees and practices wave your dumb flag. He is 33 years old, with a voice older than his years. And a message that speaks across generations.
There's something about right now that just seems to be hitting. Yeah. A guy with six strings singing about the times. Every dog has its day.
Well it's your own damn fault. You're so damn fat. Shame, shame, shame. All the food on the shelf was engineered for your health, so you're gonna have to take the blame.
Wells can be soft-spoken in person, but behind the microphone, he sings loud and clear. There ain't no you. In United Health, there ain't no me In the company, they ain't no us in the private trust There's hardly humans in humanity. Hi, Steve. Good to meet y'all.
He takes aim at anyone he thinks takes advantage of working people. Thanks for the music. The folks in folk music. At a Greenwich Village record store last fall, Wells dug through his musical roots and his mother's influence. She really liked Crosby Sills and Nash, and she liked Fleetwood Mac.
She liked pretty, pretty music. But no one was really talking about Dylan, so I suppose that was maybe the first.
Solo space mission I flew was to go and find like some folk hard folk music. He was in New York to perform on CBS's The Late Show. Where he chose a song that speaks to the unease some feel about our moment in history. Join us, boys. Join nice, join ice, take my advice.
If you're lacking control and authority, come with me and hunt down minorities. Join us.
Wells is up for four Grammy Awards tonight. recognition that this troubadour from Ozark, Arkansas never expected. especially considering his talents seemed to be more on the football field rather than the stage. Is it true your sister once said your voice Sounds like burnt toast. Yes.
You weren't always comfortable with your voice. No. No, but burnt toast is still edible. War isn't murder, good men don't die. Children don't starve, and all the women survive.
With that simple and direct burnt toast sound, Wells gets millions of views on social media. He tapes himself alone in the Arkansas Hills. But no kings, no kings, no kings.
Okay. With lyrics that can seem ripped from the headlines. Do you see yourself as a political figure? A political figure? Yeah.
No, not at all. No. Because these are sometimes pretty charged songs, right? Political.
Well Those songs got their start here. In his spare bedroom, turned studio. Show us something that you're working on.
Well I just did this one the other day. I know me. His only wish Dancer to no one. Drink like a fish He worked real hard. And he got it all.
There was plenty Yeah. And no one to call. If you look down the road. You'll see the sun And it makes time, as you take time, just to end Where you begun, I've got the peace like a river. I've got time.
I don't need. The thing that ain't hard in mind. I like that. It's beautiful. You think you're a little shy sometimes talking about your music?
and what it all means and What you're really trying to say? I can't tell you what it means. Like it's up to everybody. Nobody is gonna paint anything and tell you this is what I mean. when I painted this, you know?
That's no fun. That takes away your experience.
Wells has been embraced by legends of folk and rock. Calming down. A summer day and recently performed with John Fogarty. It ain't no use to sit and wonder Why And late last year, he went into the studio with Joan Baez. bridging generations and bringing in new audiences.
I know a girl For Jesse Wells. It is his way of keeping the spirit. of American folk music. Alive. You feel connected to that tradition, that folk tradition?
I think it's important that it doesn't go away. If you look down the road, it's something that you know has been going on. It's been going on for centuries and centuries. And you just you wake up one morning and you go, This is what I do. This is what I was supposed to do.
Got tea. He's like a river. Yeah. He's like a river. Of God Thank you for listening.
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