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Orville Peck Is Making A Very Different Kind Of Country Music

Orville Peck makes a very different kind of country music. It's a kind that's just as authentic as the storytellers he admired growing up, though some have questioned that because of the way he presents himself as an artist.

Orville may be in disguise, but he is incredibly forthright as a guest. We talked a bit about his persona as a masked singer and why he adopted it, but we really focused on the songs he's written, the pastiche of influences (like new wave, punk and gospel), and finally, the response he's received as a queer country musician.

Let's get started with a performance of "Turn To Hate" from the stage of World Cafe Live.It's Orville Peck.

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World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).