Piano Girl Podcast: Pretty, Pretty—Piano Girl vs. Trump
Release Date: 10/29/2020
The Piano Girl Podcast: The Lady Plays
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“The Lady Plays,” is Robin's tribute to the Piano Queen, Marian McPartland.
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Piano Girl Podcast: Pretty, Pretty—Piano Girl vs. Trump
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Piano Girl Podcast host Robin Meloy Goldsby flashes back to the eighties, when Donald Trump was her boss at a fancy-pants Manhattan hotel.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: We Are the Musicians
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“Music has never been essential for keeping people alive, but it has always been essential for helping us feel alive. Live music connects us in an impeccably human way.” Robin’s tribute to freelance musicians, doing their best during challenging times to feed their families, stay on track, and keep the music playing. featuring "Blackbird" from Goldsby's Magnolia album.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: Waltz of the Asparagus People
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This month’s Piano Girl Podcast, “Waltz of the Asparagus People” takes you on a romp from a fancy New York City hotel lobby to a swanky German castle, accompanied by piano music and vegetables in costumes. It’s a bizarre story, but 100% true. You can’t make this stuff up. Featuring the track "Waltz of the Asparagus People," a tune inspired by Goldsby's encounters with her favorite stalky vegetable.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: Olives, Almonds, Sauvignon Blanc: The Musician's Guide to Losing (and Finding) Those Last Five Pounds
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For over five decades Piano Girl Podcast host Robin Goldsby has lost and gained the same five pounds about four times a year. Road trips, evil catering, unidentifiable bar food, vending machine Twix bars, buffalo wings, airplane pretzels, stale ham sandwiches, chocolate donuts, and, yes, those community bowls of goldfish crackers—as a musician Goldsby has survived most of these things. For better or worse, here are some of her favorite diet phases, many of them career-related.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: Astoria
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Piano Girl Podcast host Robin Goldsby recalls the fifteen years she spent living in one of New York City's most colorful communities. "I never tired of the view from Queensboro Plaza, the way the serrated Manhattan skyline taunted the humble Queens horizon. The two parts of my life—where I worked and where I lived—remained separated by a yawning moat of fast-moving, murky water."
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The PianoGirl Podcast: Wake Up, Santa!
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Nothing says Christmas quite like a drunken, snoring Santa refusing to wake up for the holidays.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: The Notes that Got Away/Badass Randy and the Beauty Queens
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It's family time on the Piano Girl Podcast with Robin Meloy Goldsby. Meet Robin's drummer father, Bob Rawsthorne, and her audacious sister, Badass Randy. Lessons galore for anyone in the music business. Featuring the title track from Goldsby's newest solo piano album, Home and Away.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: Varmint on the Roof
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Man (and music) versus nature. A bass player and a pianist take on a German weasel.
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The Piano Girl Podcast: The Accidental Insult
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Most of the musicians Piano Girl Robin Goldsby has known have developed thick skins underneath their little black dresses and tuxedos. Like it’s not hard enough to smile and remember 3,000 tunes while playing for a chiropractor convention—they must also suffer the slings and arrows of well-meaning customers. Goldsby describes a chance meeting with Madonna—and how the two of them have more in common than one might expect. Blond ambition, indeed.
info_outlinePiano Girl Podcast host Robin Meloy Goldsby flashes back to the eighties, when Donald Trump was her boss at a fancy-pants Manhattan hotel.
"Goldsby has a wicked sense of humor and a keen eye for the absurd." Publishers Weekly Starred Review of Piano Girl: A Memoir
This episodes features two tracks from Goldsby's December album: "First Snow" and "Hallelujah."