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Hear Marcus King Perform Acoustic Versions Of Tracks From 'El Dorado'

XPN | By Raina Douris,
John Myers
Published January 17, 2020 at 12:47 PM EST

It feels like 23-year-old guitar prodigy Marcus King was always destined to make music. He's from a multi-generational musical family and has had his own band since his teenage days in South Carolina. He's released three studio albums with that band, the Marcus King Band, but about a year ago, it was time for a change. King moved to Nashville and started hanging out with Dan Auerbach. With Auerbach's help, King released his debut solo album, El Dorado, out now.

Marcus King dropped by World Cafe and shared his first memories of playing guitar and how Auerbach convinced him to buy a car. Also on this session, you'll hear King perform special acoustic versions of some of the songs on El Dorado.We begin with "Sweet Mariona," recorded in front of a live audience at The Lounge at World Cafe Live. Hear it all in the player above.

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Raina Douris
Raina Douris is the host of World Cafe.
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John Myers
Since 2017, John Myers has been the producer of NPR's World Cafe, which is produced by WXPN at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Previously he spent about eight years working on the other side of Philly at WHYY as a producer on the staff of Fresh Air with Terry Gross. John was also a member of the team of public radio veterans recruited to develop original programming for Audible and has worked extensively as a freelance producer. His portfolio includes work for the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, The Association for Public Art and the radio documentary, Going Black: The Legacy of Philly Soul Radio. He's taught radio production to preschoolers and college students and, in the late 90's, spent a couple of years traveling around the country as a roadie for the rock band Huffamoose.
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