The best Sunday morning albums
All Songs Considered

The best Sunday morning albums

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 25, 202649 min
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Is Sunday morning the best time for music? Whether you prefer solitude, get-togethers with family or friends, or steeling yourself for the week to come, we’ve got the perfect album to score your early hours. NPR Music’s Hazel Cills and Lars Gotrich join host Robin Hilton. Leave us a review on Apple or Spotify wherever you listen to podcasts. Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: [email protected] Featured songs and artists: (00:00) Intro / Miles Davis: “So What” (02:32) Astrud Gilberto: “Once I Loved” (06:29...

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Fall is right around the corner. That means the midterms. Hey, it's Miles Parks from the NPR Politics Podcast. Now is the perfect time to calibrate your news diet for the fall. Follow our show for short daily episodes that will help you stay ahead of the most important midterm storylines that you need to follow. Find the NPR Politics Podcast on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music Podcast, Hazel Sills, Lars Gotrich here, and this is an episode that I have wanted to do for a very long time. Why have you always wanted to do this show? Okay, well, I think Sunday mornings, right?

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There's no other time of the day that I think of music more than in the morning, and there's no morning I think of and music more than Sunday mornings. Why on Sunday mornings? Why not Saturday mornings? Saturday mornings.

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