MUSIC: What the Songs You Love Say About You
The Next Big Idea
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In 1983, a 25-year-old kid went down into the basement of his Minnesota home and recorded an album. What's truly remarkable is that the music he made sounded like this. He had a recording engineer with him another 20-something named Susan Rogers. These artists didn't turn to her because she was an expert at theory or some sort of musical virtuoso. She couldn't even play an instrument; what she could do was listen. In her mid-40s she quit making records and went back to school, ultimately earning a PhD in psychology.
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