Episode notes
You’d think being dropped from a major label would hurt your career, but in Emily King’s case, it helped fuel her success. In 2008, she left a major label, J Records, and began working on an independent record. With the help of producer/composer Jeremy Most, she created “Seven” a seven-track EP filled with soulful ballads and heartfelt lyricism.
Singer/saxophonist Braxton Cook joins Morgan to discuss this album, Emily King’s powerful voice, watching her perform live (remember live shows?), and the subtle but important decisions she makes throughout the record.
More on Braxton Cook
More on Emily King
- Emily’s interview with Afro about Seven
- Emily King’s Latest Album Is a Sweeping Coming-of-Age Tale (NPR)
- Emily performing “Georgia” live at Rockwood Music Hall
Show Tracklisting (all songs from Seven unless otherwise indicated):
- Ever After
- Braxton Cook: FJYD
- No More Room
- Emily King: Walk In My Shoes
- Georgia
- Christian Scott: Georgia (Live)
- Emily King: Georgia (Live)
- Every Part
- Down
- Emily King & Nick Hakim: Down (Live)
- Down
- Radio
- Braxton Cook: Never Thought
- Sides
- Georgia
- Every Part
- No More Room
- Down
- Emily King: Look At Me Now
- Nick Hakim: Cuffed
- Brittany Howard: Georgia
Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find on there.
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