Transcript: Summer Song Favorites: More Listeners' Picks

MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
08-20-2009
Summer Song Favorites: More Listeners' Picks

Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time 20:00-21:00 PM


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MELISSA BLOCK, host:

It's time again for Songs of Summer, and the listeners are back. Our next two selections were sent in by listeners. One of the songs is a certified 1970s AM radio classic. Both songs brought back memories of rural America for the two listeners we'll hear from today, and that's where we'll start, with the first song, "Jambalaya" by country music legend Hank Williams.

(Soundbite of song "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)")

Ms. GWEN ROLAND: My name is Gwen Roland, and I'm a writer. I live in Georgia now, but I grew up in Louisiana.

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