Galactic and Irma Thomas
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Galactic and Irma Thomas
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- “The place I Belong”
- “Woman Liberty”
- “How Glad I Am”
On paper, it makes a lot sense. Two totally different icons from New Orleans connecting to make an album collectively.
One is Galactic, the funk-meets-everything outfit that is been a mainstay in The Large Simple for over 30 years.
The opposite is Irma Thomas, whose legacy goes again even additional. The Soul Queen of New Orleans’ gorgeous rendition of “Time is On My Aspect” impressed The Rolling Stones again within the ’60s.
Their new collaborative album is known as Viewers With the Queen. It options eight new authentic songs, particularly written for Thomas.
On this session, Galactic’s Robert Mercurio and Thomas be part of us to speak about making the album, together with the noble efforts the band made to arrange the studio solely to seek out out why that wasn’t mandatory.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
