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Today, we’re putting The Tonearm’s needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan.

Ora Cogan’s music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and gothic rock. She holds all of it without flinching, as heard on the fantastic album Hard Hearted Woman, her latest release on Sacred Bones.

Ora has worked as a photojournalist and human rights advocate, and those experiences feed directly into how she thinks about art, resistance, and what the music is actually for. We get into all of that, including her creative process, the long arc of folk music as a living tradition, and why staying soft in hard times is a form of defiance in itself.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Ora Cogan’s Hard Hearted Woman)

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