Confessions (feat. Lucy Dacus)

 “I care about words more than music,” says musician Lucy Dacus. Lucy recently released her third album, Home Video is a compilation of stories and vignettes pulled directly from her journals, dating back to her childhood. For Lucy, deep honesty in the form of song lyrics is almost compulsive. On this week’s show, Lucy and Hanif each unpack what it means to be a confessional writer, and together explore what honesty can offer an artist, or how it can hurt them. Plus, a reading list from Lucy on the books that offer her inspiration.  /Music In This Week's Episode/Thumbs, Lucy DacusI Love You, Mary J. BligeAll That You Have Is Your Soul, Tracy ChapmanBad Religion, Frank OceanYou Must Love Me, JAY-ZIt Hurts Me Too, Karen DaltonGive My Love To Rose, Johnny CashIt Hurts Me So Much, Etta James/Show Notes/Lucy Dacus’ newest album is Home Video.Lucy’s song Please Stay is inspired by Hanif’s essay “Brief Notes on Staying.” Lucy’s often pulls inspiration for literature. The books she’s been reading are: The Committed  by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Crime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoyevskyPlay It As It Lays by Joan DidionGathering Moss by Robin Wall KimmererA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib Girlhood by Melissa Febos/Credits/ This show is produced by work by work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, Babette Thomas, Mayari Sherina Ong and by Hanif Abdurraqib. The show is mixed by Sam Bair.