Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Astonished Man

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  You're listening to Song Exploder,

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  where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

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  I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

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  This episode contains explicit language.

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  My name is Tao Nguyen of the band Tao and the Get Down, Stay Down.

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  I was reading Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead, and there is this character who...

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  is a black sheep or an outcast of his family,

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  and he's returned after several years of being completely out of touch,

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  and he's about to leave again and basically break his father's heart.

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  And there's this passage where he's asking forgiveness from a family friend.

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  Then he stopped and looked at me and said, you know,

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  I'm doing the worst possible thing again, leaving now.

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  Glory will never forgive me.

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  This character and the way that he's developed and rendered struck me so deeply,

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  and it reminded me so much of my dad.

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  And this one passage in particular sort of brought me closer to understanding my dad and gave me a kind of compassion and a curiosity about him that I hadn't entertained before,

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  wondering what kind of person he had been all these years that I didn't know him.

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  And I just started... I immediately started writing Astonished Man.

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  Tao and the Get Down, Stay Down released the album A Man Alive in March 2016.

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  Coming up in this episode,

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