
Emily Rose
Clip: Season 12 Episode 7 | 5m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Singer/songwriter Emily Rose | Episode 1207/Segment 2
A performance and interview from singer/songwriter Emily Rose Episode 1207/Segment 2
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Emily Rose
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A performance and interview from singer/songwriter Emily Rose Episode 1207/Segment 2
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(acoustic guitar strumming) ♪ Alma, we've been married 60 years and still I live ♪ ♪ For the sights of your smile ♪ Big and bright like a kid ♪ And to think it all began ♪ At a silly high school dance ♪ Like a portrait I preserved it in my mind ♪ ♪ Alma, oh so steady on the dot was suppertime ♪ ♪ You gathered our loose pages ♪ Sewed us up a spine ♪ And our family, it grew ♪ Time as it does flew.
♪ Do you remember ♪ Love me tender ♪ Love me true ♪ Alma, I am stubborn and I do things on my own ♪ ♪ It's part of who I am ♪ It's what I was shown ♪ I put these little notes ♪ All around the house ♪ This one is your toothbrush and here is your nightgown ♪ ♪ Won't you sit with me tonight ♪ ♪ Watch the sun go down (acoustic guitar playing) ♪ Alma I've been hiding that my body's failing to ♪ ♪ The children want to help ♪ But that's not what we do ♪ You don't recognize me, but my life I promised you ♪ ♪ And I won't leave your side ♪ Alma, I've been thinking we could slip away ♪ ♪ Leave our broken bodies on the bed ♪ ♪ Where they lay ♪ And we'll go dancing once again under the stars ♪ ♪ That's when I first found your heart ♪ ♪ That's when you first stole my heart ♪ - I'm here with the awesome Emily Rose who just gave that wonderful performance on stage.
Hi, Emily.
- Hi Satori.
- So how did you start with your music?
Where did you get your inspiration and start?
- I don't actually come from a musical family myself, but my luckily my folks had good taste in music when I was young and they had a record player.
And so I would listen to records a lot as a kid.
And I've always been like a very sensitive person.
And music was just the thing I gravitated to most.
So, pretty much all my life.
- So which songs did you perform for us today?
- So today I played a song called Alma - And what inspired Alma - Alma is a song about dedication and commitment and love.
It's about an older couple and I sing the song from the perspective of the husband who is singing to his wife and he's telling her about their life together because she doesn't have the mental faculties to remember it any longer.
And it's a song about this couple's journey through time.
- That's Beautiful.
Is it based on any couple that you actually knew?
- It's based on, on quite a few couples, really.
Often I, I'll play it and people will say like oh you know, that song spoke to me.
- And what is the impact that you hope to have on audiences and what do they tell you the impact is?
- I like to inspire emotion if possible.
Whether it's just opening someone up to maybe shedding that tear that they weren't able to shed before.
Or maybe consider a different perspective from one of the songs.
Make people think a little more.
Maybe get some people to laugh.
Yeah, just I just kind of wanna get some kind of rise, I suppose.
Curated by: Audra Kubat, Part 1 Promo
Preview: S12 Ep7 | 30s | Singer/Songwriter Audra Kubat, poet jessica Care moore, and singer/songwriter Emily Rose. (30s)
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Clip: S12 Ep7 | 10m 35s | Singer Audra Kubat | Episode 1207/Segment 3 (10m 35s)
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Clip: S12 Ep7 | 5m 23s | Poet Jessica Care Moore | Episode 1207/Segment 1 (5m 23s)
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