Arts & Culture

Will Hermes - Best Music Of 2014 - Part 1

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published December 30, 2014 at 10:35 AM EST

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Lori McKenna - "Numbered Doors"

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Little Big Town - "Girl Crush"

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Eric Church - "Give Me Back My Hometown"

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Sturgill Simpson - "Turtles All The Way Down"

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Run The Jewels - "Early" (ft. Boots)

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Flying Lotus - "Never Catch Me" (ft. Kendrick Lamar)

Will Hermes is a music critic for NPR’s All Things Considered, a Contributing Editor for Rolling Stone, and author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever.

We’re lucky to have Will - a Hudson Valley resident - to share his music expertise with us at year’s end.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.

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