Hello from back in July, when Tammy recorded this special live episode in Portland, Oregon! The occasion was the new album, “1975,” by No-No Boy.

No-No Boy is Julian Saporiti, a folk and rock musician from Nashville whose PhD dissertation has taken the form of an extended song cycle about Asian America. Julian and his partner, Emilia Halvorsen, an aspiring lawyer who co-produced and sings on “1975,” talked with Tammy about the folk tradition, US empire, travels in the Mountain West, ethnomusicology, the struggle for immigrants’ rights, Asian-American and mixed-race identities, John Okada, and Jens Lekman. They also performed two brand-new tunes.

The songs you’ll hear in this episode:

* “Imperial Twist,” No-No Boy, 1975 (Smithsonian Folkways, 2021)

* “St. Denis or Bangkok, From a Hotel Balcony,” 1975

* “Yuiyo Bon Odori,” Nobuko Miyamoto, 120,000 Stories (Smithsonian Folkways, 2021)

* “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming,” 1975

* “No No Boy,” The Spiders (Philips, 1966)

* “Disposable Youth,” No-No Boy, 1942 (2018)

* “Pilgrims,” 1975

* “St. Michael,” Little Monk Panda Scout aka Julian and Emilia

* “Panda Scout,” Little Monk Panda Scout

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Live music and a "good hang" with No-No Boy's Julian Saporiti and Emilia Halvorsen

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