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Episode 69


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This week’s episode features some of our favorite musical moments on Wits,
including performances from Har Mar Superstar, Thao Nguyen, Martha Wainwright,
Dan Wilson and Sara Watkins, Loudon Wainwright III, Typhoon, Aimee Mann and Ted
Leo and more.


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HAR MAR SUPERSTAR

@HarMarSuperstarharmarsuperstar.com

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Har Mar Superstar (aka Sean Tillmann)
named his flamboyant alter ego after the Har Mar mall in suburban St. Paul,
Minn., where he spent his youth watching movies and writing songs about
passersby in the food court. "Har Mar Superstar used to be a different person,"
he says. "It used to be my excuse to get away with the more fantastic things in
life. ... I guess the confidence I got from being Har Mar Superstar translated
into my real life, so now we're one and the same." His latest record, the
soulful Bye Bye 17, was released April 23 on Cult Records, with the
single Prisoner having its world debut on The Current.



THAO NGUYEN

@Thaogetstaydownwww.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com

Growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at the age
of 12. She spent most of her 20s touring, supporting one critically acclaimed
album after another, while working with Andrew Bird, Mirah, and Merrill Garbus
of tUnE-yArDs, amongst others. She’s also spent time advocating for those
incarcerated in the SF county jail and CA state prison system.



MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

@WainBrightmarthawainwright.com

The daughter of folk legends Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and
sister of singer songwriter Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright is known for her
raw, confessional material, expressive voice and captivating stage presence.
After her 2008 critically acclaimed "I Know You're Married, But I've Got
Feelings Too," Martha is out with a new album of original material, "Come Home
To Mama."



DAN WILSON

@DanWilsonMusicwww.danwilsonmusic.com

Dan Wilson is a Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter
and producer. Wilson is a solo recording artist as well as the lead singer of
the band Semisonic. Dan is well-known as a songwriting collaborator, having
contributed three songs to Adele's latest album, 21, including the hit single
"Someone Like You," which he also produced. Wilson has written with the Dixie
Chicks, Josh Groban, Dierks Bentley, Jason Mraz, Ben Folds, Nas and many others.



SARA WATKINS

@SaraWatkinssarawatkins.com

Sara Watkins was eight when she started performing with the Grammy Award-winning
bluegrass-folk trio Nickel Creek as a fiddle player and singer. Twenty years
later, she released her first solo album – the BBC has said she's got "the kind
of voice that gives your goose bumps the shivers.” She and her brother Sean
(also in Nickel Creek) host the Watkins Family Hour at L.A.'s eclectic comedy
and music club Largo at the Coronet. She's also a frequent guest on A Prairie
Home Companion and is the only artist to have guest-hosted an entire episode of
the show. Her latest and second solo album is called "Sun Midnight Sun."



TYPHOON

@weareTYPHOONhttp://www.wearetyphoon.com

With a sonic palette that adds horns, strings, xylophone, accordion, and
percussion to the classic indie rock foundation, Portland, Oregon based Typhoon,
have been crafting expansive, emotional anthems since 2005. Paste Magazine raves
that "Typhoon is an indie rock geek’s dream: a dynamic 11-piece with a seemingly
unending reservoir of energy…Ladies and gentlemen, meet your new critical
darlings." In 2013, the band released their fourth album, White Lighter.



LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

@www.lw3.com

Grammy winner Loudon Wainwright III’s recording career started in 1970 and now
includes 25 albums.  The latest is Older Than My Old Man Now, which employs
Wainwright’s unique mix of poignancy and devastating wit to examine aging.
Wainwright’s songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Earl
Scruggs, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright, and Mose Allison, among
others. Also an accomplished actor, Wainwright has appeared in films directed by
Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and
Judd Apatow, and can next be seen in the independent film Pleased To Meet Me,
and a one-man-play entitled Surviving Twin.



AIMEE MANN

@aimeemannwww.aimeemann.com

Aimee Mann has always been at the forefront of contemporary songwriters – from
her work in the 80s band, 'Til Tuesday through her acclaimed solo albums,
"Whatever" and "I'm With Stupid." Mann was nominated for an Academy Award and a
Grammy for her songs from the movie, "Magnolia" and has since released several
critically-acclaimed albums featuring dysfunctional characters, infectious
melodies and true song-craft, the latest of which is titled "Charmer."



TED LEO

@tedleotedleo.com

Ted Leo, loved for his wit and energetic performances, is the front man and main
songwriter of the indie rock band Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, a band radio host
Tom Scharpling says "embodies the perfect synthesis of head and heart." The
band's latest album is The Brutalist Bricks.



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