Don Was On World Cafe

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Don Was.

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• "Papa Come Quick" by Bonnie Raitt


• "Brick By Brick" by Iggy Pop


• "Channel Z" by The B-52's

This week's Sense of Place focus on Detroit calls for a resurrection of the very first installment of a World Cafe series called Producer Profiles. This archived session from 1992 features Don Was. In the profile, Was discusses the work he's done with a number of artists, including Bonnie Raitt (Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw).

The musician was — and still is — a member of the band Was (Not Was), but had been doing more production work that extended to fellow Detroit native Iggy Pop, as well as Bob Dylan and a list of others. Even though Was had already produced such hits as "Love Shack" by The B-52's, he wouldn't let on to any knowledge that he could predict a song's potential popularity once it was complete.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/WorldCafe/2013/10/22/239839304/don-was-on-world-cafe?ft=1&f=1039
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