![]() ![]() There was absolutely no way for Sharanda Jones to receive relief from her life sentence through the court. ![]() “And I began to feel like, as lawyers, we are forced to work within the bounds of laws that are just outside the bounds of moral consciousness. “I just started getting so frustrated, because every avenue I tried through the court, we were blocked,” Barnett says. But there’s things that a song can do that other mediums can’t do.” “In some cases, that might be an essay the idea you want to convey - whether it’s about politics or policy - might be best conveyed in an essay, and you might think, ‘That’s not something that you can write a song about.’ You could try, and people have done such things, but it generally does not succeed. ![]() “The appeal comes from trying to be honest about the medium that you’re using to convey something, or trying to use the best medium to convey whatever it is you’re trying to communicate,” Byrne says. On this week’s podcast, he talks about, among other subjects, why and when he chooses to write prose instead of songs. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listenĭavid Byrne is still most famous as a musician, but his multihyphenate talents are on display in his latest book, “American Utopia,” which is a collaboration with the artist Maira Kalman, an adaptation of his Broadway show of the same name, itself adapted from a music tour. ![]()
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