Jean Rohe
Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman
01/20/25
•77m
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Jean Rohe is an acclaimed song-writer and singer, as well as a devoted mentor, working with incarcerated song-writers,as well as at the New School and privately. She writes powerful narrative songs, and is widely known for her "National Anthem: Arise! Arise!" an aspirational alternative which has been performed extensively across the US. She shared with me her perspectives on love, grief, identity, community and creativity. One of her beautiful collaborations is the wonderful album Beautalina with the band Eureka Shoes, with Skye Soto Steele, Charlie Burnham and Rashaan Carter. We are featuring music from that project as well as with Robinson & Rohe.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:48) Euraka Shoes, Looking Glass Arts, Marika Hughes, Charlie Burnham, Skye Soto Steele, Rashaan Carter
(04:28) Jean’s childhood and musical family
(07:19) Beautalina album, about the song “Go Easy”
(09:26) “Go Easy” with Eureka Shoes (link in show notes to album Beautalina)
(12:42) Eureka Shoes, creativity, dealing with grief
(18:35) excerpt from “Everyone Is Dying” Eureka Shoes
(19:05) Jean’s educational path, jazz at New School, Alexandra Montano
(22:47) Eureka Shoes, about “Barn Hymn”, Looking Glass Arts
(26:23) “Barn Hymn” Eureka Shoes
(28:30) The End of the World show, touring Brazil
(31:42) other episodes you’ll like and ways to support this series
(32:29) Republic of Georgia, Ilusha Tsinadze
(34:50) teaching song writing, working with incarcerated people, New School
(48:03) Eureka Shoes, about “I Wanna Be”
(50:54) clip of “I Wanna Be”
(52:58) songwriting, touring
(56:56) Liam Robinson, Robinson&Rohe, Woody Guthrie
(01:03:46) “Where I’m Coming From” Robinson & Rohe from Into the Night (link in show notes)
(01:07:48) songwriting, the voice as instrument
(01:14:29) 74
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