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[singing in Spanish] ♪ On the wheels of love we'll roam ♪ ♪ It's a Subie thing ♪ - [Male Announcer]: Echo Sessions is made possible by Prestige Subaru.

[upbeat jazz/rock] ♪ - For those tuning in, thank you all so much.

We are Making Movies.

Our first time here in North Carolina, it's exciting.

And we're gonna play some music from a record we made a few years ago called "I'm Another You," and started this journey for us where we were really exploring American music and what that means to us.

And this song is a song that we got to record with a very wonderful singer/songwriter, a dear friend of ours, Alynda Segarra Hurray for the Riff Raff.

But we'll do it in her absence.

This song is called Brave Enough.

[bright music] ♪ Anything to turn you on ♪ ♪ We're painting fables into song ♪ ♪ Poison cups and swerving lanes ♪ ♪ Could we make it to the grave ♪ ♪ I don't really think you're wrong ♪ ♪ See, I know that you came along ♪ ♪ To find a certain sense of faith ♪ ♪ In this Paris for the plain ♪ ♪ Anytime I think I find a new kind of thrill I seek ♪ ♪ She's already been crushing up the pills ♪ ♪ Times I think I find a new bird to kill ♪ ♪ She's already at my neighbor's window sill ♪ ♪ I said, hey, ♪ ♪ Aren't you brave enough to make it on your own ♪ ♪ Come on, come on ♪ ♪ Well I don't really give a ♪ ♪ See, I don't believe beginner's luck ♪ ♪ Why chase the muddy river ♪ ♪ Down to the delta if you still can't stand the rain ♪ ♪ Anytime I think I find a new kind of thrill ♪ ♪ She's already been crushing up the pills ♪ ♪ At times I think I find a new place to drill I see ♪ ♪ They've already been sipping from the well ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ To make it on your own ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ To make it on your own ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ I gotta get out ♪ ♪ Gotta get out ♪ ♪ Gotta get out ♪ ♪ Gotta get out ♪ ♪ Gotta get out ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ To make it on your own ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ To make it on your own ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ Come one, come on ♪ ♪ I said, hey, aren't you brave enough ♪ ♪ To make it on your own ♪ ♪ You're on your own ♪ Thank you all so much.

[light rock music] [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [speaks in Spanish] But with the blood of the Caribbean in him.

[speaks in Spanish] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ I'm having fun making music for y'all.

Duncan, can you show them that glave rhythm?

[light rhythmic music] This is the rhythm that seems like the heartbeat of all American music, whether it be sung in English or in Spanish.

When you hear this rhythm, and it starts to make sense what Jelly Roll Morton in New Orleans we talked about while playing on his left hand a little piano line that sounds like this.

[light piano music] He says you can't really play the blues without the Spanish tinge.

I was reading, I was like, what does he mean The Spanish tinge?

What is he talking about?

And what he meant is you can't play it without the rhythms that the Cuban guys taught him.

"So this blues song," he said, "I can't take full credit of it 'cause it's not just mine, it has this Spanish tinge."

Well, Dunkin, let's show them what New Orleans blues sounds like.

[bright rhythmic music] And what he said, he said, "You can't really take full credit for this blues song.

I can't take full credit.

You got to give credit back to those Cuban guys who taught me this rhythm, this [speaks in Spanish], Habanera rhythm.

So, can we show them how this motif, this riff comes from Cuba?

Duncan, let's take them to Cuba.

[bright rhythmic music] I found that so interesting.

So far this music has the same heartbeat.

Maybe the human beings who made it, in spite of speaking different languages, maybe they all speak the same language and all pulse to the same beat, too.

And I believe that to be true.

And that's why I think that racism is one of the silliest and most foolish things human beings I've ever dreamed up.

And the narrative of American music, the narrative of rock and roll who's in jazz and the narrative of Latin music, they are not two narratives, they're one long narrative.

They have the same great, great, great, great grandfather.

So with that in mind, we're gonna play a little ditty that we didn't write, our friend Rubin Blades wrote this song with Lou Reed in 1987, but he passed it to us for a new album "Americana."

This song is called Delilah.

[upbeat rock music] ♪ Made a run to her side ♪ ♪ For the promises of pleasure ♪ ♪ Like a kid on a ride ♪ ♪ I completely forgot home ♪ ♪ A coyote led the way ♪ ♪ Through the desert's burning sun ♪ ♪ Still remember how it felt ♪ ♪ To be reborn ♪ ♪ I was stranded for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ Well, I was beaten, finger printed for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ I was sworn in for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ I was beaten and deported for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ Met Delilah long ago ♪ ♪ She seduced me with her song ♪ ♪ And I swore I'd never rest till I won her love ♪ ♪ When the migra chopper came ♪ ♪ My song turned to a scream ♪ ♪ Wheel of fortune ran me down ♪ ♪ I wasn't wishing for this thing ♪ ♪ I was branded for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ I was beaten, finger printed for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ I was sworn in for the love of Delilah ♪ ♪ Well, I was beaten, finger printed ♪ ♪ Deported for the love of Delilah ♪ - This next song is a song that is from that same record.

And I wrote it while I was in Panama.

I was talking to my grandmother, Diego and I are brothers, we're from Panama and my grandmother was watching the news as things de-evolve in Venezuela.

And she said, this phrase, she goes, "Eso es una locura colectiva," which means in English that's collective insanity.

And to me it struck a chord.

I thought so much about how human beings seem to time and time again, find themselves in moments where they've created a society that doesn't serve themselves.

And that seems insane to me too.

And then some people even deified Chavez in kind of weird ways, the president, who was there.

And I think that it speaks to this human need to find meaning, I guess, and find community.

And sometimes we mess that up so bad that we create huge issues for our friends, our families, ourselves.

Well, out of that spirit was born this song.

This song is called Locura Colectiva.

I normally start the guitar right at that moment but I'm going to take a sip of tea and then I'll start the song.

[gentle music] [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ ♪ ♪ [singing in Spanish] ♪ [singing in Spanish] [singing in Spanish] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [upbeat jazz/rock] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ On the wheels of love we'll roam ♪ ♪ It's a Subie thing ♪ ♪ - [Male Announcer]: Echo Sessions is made possible by Prestige Subaru.