Our newest addition to our Sans Houses series has the theme of music. Producer Tasha A F Lemley takes us along to glimpse into the lives of three men living on the street. You'll hear beautiful, funny, and tragic moments from our homeless neighbors in Nashville. Neighbors is a member of the audio collective The Heard. www.theheardradio.com Photo by Tasha A F Lemley. Music in this episode by: Violetta Pivnkakkara, Austin Leonard Jones, and Dina Maccabee.

Sans Houses - Music

   It’s an unwritten rule in Nashville. If you see a famous musician who lives in town, you let them be. Your heart might skip a beat when you see Robert Plant, Jack White, Emmylou Harris or whoever it is for you, but you let them be. “Music City” has always been a safe haven for musicians. It’s where they raise their kids and buy their groceries. It’s their home and people generally want to protect that. 

       Today we explore that idea of home by going into the houses of two very different Nashville musicians. The first is Roger Weismeyer. a classically trained English horn and piano player who plays for the Nashville Symphony. The second, the introverted indie rocker, Ben Elkins of the band El El. To get to know what our musical neighbors and their spaces are like we have come up with a format that includes a bit of music. We go to their house, and ask them to play two songs: One, an original, played in the space in which they often create, write, and practice. The second a cover of a song that for them is the pinnacle of what they want to achieve in music. Since they create not only music but their lives in these houses we ask them to tell us about a meaningful object in their home and see where that takes us.

At Home In Music City

Ben Elkins playing his song Geode in his home for the show Neighbors. www.neighborspodcast.com

Geode with Ben Elkins of ELEL (acoustic)

"I guess they can't go to no church or whatever and ask to lick their preacher's armpits...so they come around the mission."

Two stories of people going to church for two very different reasons.

Do you have a going to church story? Tell it to us at 818-927-2346. It can be holy, sad, funny, abusive. Whatever the truth is for you we want you to tell it.





Music in this episode by Dan Burns of Dop Shrah  https://soundcloud.com/dop-shrah

and Fuzzmuzz http://www.fuzzmuzzmusic.com/

Sans Houses - Going To Church

Today we feature a story from the podcast Anxious Machine called "These Things Is Miracles." What happens when a woman refuses to admit she can't hear, and what happens when she finally does?

Music in this episode: Seaside by Jelsonic

Other music in Rob's piece can be found at anxiousmachine.com

Photo by Joe Haupt

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These Things Is Miracles - Neighbors

Why do two grown men walk a mile and a half every week, rain or shine, to give each other a high five?

Editors: Bailey Robbins, Rob McGinley Meyers, Tally Abecassis
Music: Podington Bear and Dan Burns AKA Dop Shrah
Sponsors: Yazoo Brewing Company and Baja Burrito

The High Five

A story of how one clown turns his sorrow into connection.

some music by Podington Bear
Editors: Tally Abecassis and Rob McGinley Meyers
Production Help: Bailey Robbins
Artwork: Christopher Stewart
Sponsors: Yazoo Brewing Company www.yazoobrew.com
                   Baja Burrito
Neighbors is a part of The Heard www.theheardradio.com

The Fool

In 1969, Leroy and Gloria Griffith got married in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It would have been an ordinary event, except that they are believed to be the first interracial couple to legally wed in the county. We hear the story of why they opened up their wedding to the public, despite racial tension in the community.

The Ordinary Radicals

Hannah has a rare genetic disorder that causes her to stop breathing when she goes to sleep. She wears a ventilator at night. How does having to constantly monitor a basic human function change how Hannah and her family approach life?

Music by Podington Bear, Chris Zabriskie, Jason Goforth, and 
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Every Breath Is Precious

Bethany embalmed bodies for a living, but she couldn’t help but empathize with every corpse she worked on, seeing her job as one final gift—one that was taking its toll. It turns out, some professions require a certain detachment.

Credits: Edited by Emily Siner, Mack Linebaugh and Anita Bugg. Music by Podington Bear, Chris Zabriskie, and Jason Goforth

The Funeral Director

A show about what connects us. By Jakob Lewis and from Nashville Public Radio.

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