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Welcome to The Shadow People, a podcast where New Orleans musicians Nigel Hall and Derrick Freeman bring their unfiltered, unapologetic, and often hilarious takes on politics, music, sports, and the chaos of life.
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The Shadow People Ep38 - Nigel’s Birthday, Earth Wind & Fire & Getting Older (opens the original)
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No guest. No grand agenda. Nigel Hall checks in remotely from the road on his birthday, Derrick Freeman holds things down in New Orleans, and Danny Abel eventually wanders into the studio to join the foolishness.A rare day off has Nigel thinking about birthdays, gratitude, getting older, staying teachable, and why some of us apparently caught the absolute last flight out of stupidity. Derrick tells the story of unexpectedly running into Earth, Wind & Fire legend Ralph Johnson in Oregon and immed
The Shadow People Ep37 - The United States of New Orleans (opens the original)
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Nigel Hall is home for exactly two days, which apparently is just enough time to sit down with Derrick Freeman, Jelly Joseph, and Danny Abel for another episode of The Shadow People.This one starts with Nigel’s eye twitching from tour life, Jelly in her birthday mumu era, and the whole room trying to decide whether a meltdown is actually just your body telling you the truth. From there, it turns into records, record stores, PJ Morton, Brazil, childhood music memories, “useful hoarding,” New Orle
The Shadow People Ep36 - Jelly Joseph Joins The Shadow People (opens the original)
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The Shadow People are back, and this one comes with a new addition to the family. Nigel Hall and Derrick Freeman catch up after a little time away, get into the Nolan Wells story and the exhausting reality of trying to make sense of things that still don’t make sense, then somehow end up deep in the Bobby Womack / Sam Cooke / Womack Sisters family tree — which, honestly, needs its own courtroom diagram. Then Jelly Joseph pulls up. What started as Jelly just stopping by turns into an official wel
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