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Closed captions transcript: 00:00:00 This police officer who shot and killed 00:00:01 a black woman in her home is being held in jail on 00:00:04 a murder charge Aaron Deen was arrested just hours after he resigned from the Fort 00:00:09 Worth police force on Monday the city's police chief Edwin Kraus told 00:00:14 a news conference the Dean would have been fired had he not resigned Dean who his 00:00:18 wife or his wife shot 28 year old Tatyana Jefferson who is black threw out window 00:00:25 Saturday after 00:00:26 a neighbor called the non-emergency police line to report Jefferson's front door 00:00:31 had been left open Jefferson was in the house with her 8 year old nephew at the 00:00:36 time the United Nations investigation has found insurgent attacks targeting the 00:00:41 recent presidential electoral Pollak process in Afghanistan caused nearly $460.00 00:00:47 civilian casualties including $85.00 deaths the special report by the un Assistance 00:00:53 Mission in Afghanistan released Tuesday blames more than 80 percent of the 00:00:57 casualties on the Taliban's deliberate campaign of violence and intimidation to 00:01:02 disrupt the September 28th election the insurgent group had repeatedly made public 00:01:07 statements warning Afghan voters to stay away from the election and ordered its 00:01:11 fighters to attack organizers as well as security forces guarding the electoral 00:01:16 process 3 American economists including 00:01:20 a married couple have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in helping 00:01:24 address global property Reuters Nathan Friend Dino reports u.s. 00:01:29 Based economist yesterday float history on Monday when she became the 2nd female 00:01:34 winner of the Nobel economics prize in the youngest at 46 years old she won it with 00:01:40 her husband in fellow mit colleague Abi cheap biology as well as Harvard University 00:01:45 researcher Michael Kramer for their work on fighting poverty the trio's work 00:01:50 focuses on how poverty can be tackled by breaking it down into smaller and more 00:01:55 precise questions in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences which awards the prize. 00:02:00 That their work range from helping millions of school children to helping 00:02:04 governments increase funding for preventative medicine Reuters Nathan Friend dino 00:02:10 a dozen Democratic presidential candidates will be on stage for the party's next 00:02:14 primary debate tonight on the campus of Otterbein University in Westerville Ohio 00:02:19 this will be the 4th Democratic debate since June and will feature the largest 00:02:23 group on stage for a single debate 00:02:26 a white Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbert and Tom Styer 00:02:29 a former hedge fund investor and environmental activists will join the 10 Democrats 00:02:34 who took part in the previous debate in September and it's likely that the 00:02:38 impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump will be 00:02:42 a major focus of discussion on Tuesday evening. I'm Joe Palca 00:02:48 v.o.a. 00:02:49 News. This 00:03:05 is border crossing. More than request hours and now your host Larry 00:03:12 in London. I am Larry London welcome to border crossings today we're joined by 00:03:18 a music icon who's been in the business celebrating as I guess 5th decade in the 00:03:23 music maybe 50 plus years we'll be talking to Jesse Collin Young who's in our 00:03:26 studios and you know him from such great hits as sudden light and darkness darkness 00:03:31 and of course get together which is one song that resonates even today as it did 00:03:37 back in 1969. 00:04:05 So to. Some. 00:04:21 Small. 00:04:29 But soon. To lose people were 00:04:36 screaming. 00:04:43 For 00:04:43 a new song. Knowing 00:04:52 . She didn't turn. Makes 00:04:59 no difference. 00:05:20 She. Told. 00:05:30 The. Man I was. 00:05:38 Hahaha. 00:05:46 See you. Soon. 00:05:54 Soon she. She. She. 00:06:31 Sees me. She's the. 00:06:39 Best. We welcome to our studios in Washington 00:06:46 d.c. 00:06:47 Jesse Collin young it's nice to have you here oh it's good to be here thank you now 00:06:50 listening to the lyrics of get together and we need to love one another there's 00:06:55 never been 00:06:55 a more appropriate time for that song than there is right now he has the day you're 00:07:01 so right and that's part of why I'm out here. I've been doing. Just 00:07:08 popping in on other people's shows. And singing Get together with them isn't at an 00:07:14 encore I'm going to do it tonight with Jake Shimabukuro who's playing here and yeah 00:07:20 ukulele player Jake from Japan and yeah we grew coffee in Hawaii we lived there for 00:07:27 years that's right it will be brothers meeting up now you've mentioned something 00:07:32 that is I find very interesting that you do have 00:07:35 a coffee plantation you know why it's a farm it's a farm gets a little farm just 00:07:40 a little coffee bar and yeah 6 acres is when it's planted with coffee when you're 00:07:47 trying to. Prune it yourself yeah it takes me 3 weeks 00:07:54 yeah it's so when we were living there and we didn't have 00:07:58 a lot of help that was all plenty coffee was that's when they were did you come up 00:08:05 with the mafia I mean were you of friends with Juan Del desert or just coffee thing 00:08:09 happen I don't know him and the soup be and Poyet I know that from the right but we 00:08:16 Kona is the famous district. For coffee and we bought 00:08:22 a farm in Kona and there was no coffee on it but there was coffee next door and. 00:08:30 We had mac nut trees that were there were too old to really produce but we we 00:08:35 didn't know that when we bought the farm so. My wife who is. A born 00:08:41 farmer said let's plant coffee so this was back in the eighty's and we planted 00:08:47 coffee and. So we have 00:08:51 a small crop we sell it on the Internet through Jeff Gannon young dot com and. 00:08:56 Mostly sell out early on it's must be good Kauto hits. 00:09:03 And I know they have you know because I lived in Japan and they in Japan they call 00:09:07 coffee that isn't as strong as there's American coffee right so I assume your 00:09:12 coffee is potent I that Jesse calling young coffee absolutely Ok if you look at as 00:09:16 young as you look and as healthy as you. Yeah I guess no and when I don't that 00:09:23 if I drink 2 cups then. I think about the well sometimes not. Well we welcome you 00:09:30 to our studios in d.c. 00:09:32 And I know you're on the road again and you're busy promoting 00:09:34 a new album which is I last count was I think 19 albums something like that as 00:09:40 a solo artist and with the Youngbloods both it's actually 2929 I missed 10 well 00:09:47 yeah I kept putting them out there were. Some of them were not in major labels and 00:09:52 . You know well in this whole go dreamers dreamers and on the album I guess you get 00:09:59 a little bit political on certain songs yes and he is that's not always been I mean 00:10:05 has that always been 00:10:06 a part of being Jesse calling young. No not so much but. 00:10:13 I've always been active. Politically and. I was 00:10:20 one of the founders of the no nukes movement right and you perform to the big 00:10:24 concert that that we are organic farmers and that's another important movement I'm 00:10:30 getting food movement we're involved with. You know we founded 00:10:36 a Waldorf school in Hawaii and education is also important to us the good things 00:10:41 coffee good education. And they go hand in hand if you're getting 00:10:47 a good education got to have coffee Yeah. And. What 00:10:52 a beautiful place to land we lost our house in 00:10:54 a forest fire yes I reckon allophone Yeah and we had this little house in Hawaii 00:10:59 that was just a getaway had like one and 00:11:02 a half bedrooms and we had 2 young children and we just moved over there and we 00:11:08 found 00:11:09 a Waldorf school 10 minutes from the house and we said Ok we're supposed to live 00:11:14 here and losing your home in 00:11:17 a fire is you know horrific and tragic in and of itself but you also lost 00:11:21 a lot of recordings you had a studio at home I guess I read and you had 00:11:25 a lot of stuff there that perhaps you had planned to release but now because of the 00:11:30 fire will never be heard actually it was strange 00:11:37 the studios down 00:11:38 a gully 15000 acres burned 50 houses. And in the 00:11:45 middle of that when we came back you know all these 100 foot trees were now smoking 00:11:49 stumps as far as you could see. And in this little guy was my recording studio 00:11:56 sitting there with a scorched board 4 story house was burnt down to 00:12:01 a foot of ash. So we asked the firemen about it how is that possible he said when 00:12:08 the big trees go most of the fuel is up at the top. And that sucks the oxygen 00:12:15 out so something really low to the ground and downhill in and where there's 00:12:21 a little creek in its way. So the studio survived. My son's actually through most 00:12:28 of the Masters this is where do these precious tapes and he gave them into 00:12:34 a back of 00:12:34 a pickup truck but you know when the fire's coming out you're going to get out of 00:12:38 there fast so I was I was not there conning was there and she got the kids out the 00:12:45 boys got the tapes out. And. But we had no place to live so why 00:12:53 that's a good choice yeah not 00:12:54 a bad place to move it was perfect but I want to yeah so Jesse I understand that 00:12:59 you have said that your new album dreamers is your best work to date and that's you 00:13:04 know quite 00:13:05 a big statement to make given the body of work that you've had over the years it's 00:13:10 certainly some of the best it's the best writing I've done in 00:13:14 a quarter century and it just came it came out of the blue. In 00:13:20 2009 I was diagnosed with Lyme disease and I had had it probably for 10 or 15 years 00:13:27 perhaps 20 before that time and was misdiagnosed and nobody was talking about 00:13:34 Lyme disease from 00:13:35 a deer tick is that yeah yeah yeah and so I was off the road no more recording 00:13:43 I just didn't have energy for anything I need to heal and I worked on it got 00:13:47 a good doctor Richard Horowitz wonderful man. Brought on the cutting edge of 00:13:53 treating lines disease and 2016 our son Tristan was graduating from Berklee 00:14:00 College of Music so Conny my wife and I we went to see his senior recycle. And 00:14:07 these kids just blew me away and I went backstage I said t. 00:14:13 I'm. I think I'm strong enough now I want to play with 00:14:17 a group of young people like you just did on stage so help me put 00:14:24 a band together and that's what we did and we had an invitation to South by 00:14:29 Southwest. So we got ready for that. And I'm. 00:14:37 Going to tell you 06 we're playing in February in New Hampshire driving ram snow 00:14:44 which I had sworn not to do ever again but. This is what it took and about 6 gigs 00:14:51 and I realized I want to read these good are so good I wanted to record with them 00:14:56 so your son's band yeah he's 00:14:59 a bass player so. Yeah years later in Nashville we went in and recorded dreamers 00:15:07 and you know there's a lot of turmoil a lot of questions. There's 00:15:12 a lot of the lying and I'm you know. I mean when I was growing up that was part of 00:15:19 being 00:15:20 a man was telling the truth and being as good as your word so. Yeah I 00:15:27 have things to say well we're going to give you 00:15:29 a chance to say what you have to say oh music right now so if you would my doing 00:15:33 a song for us we'll I would love to What's this called This is called Walk the talk 00:15:38 about love. I sat down one day and and I thought. So 00:15:45 what comes what comes have to get together Jess what comes after. 00:15:52 What comes after the dream what comes after trying to love one another 00:15:59 and this is what came out. 00:16:11 Talk 00:16:12 a little. Less talk about the. Must 00:16:20 be China. Long tough. 00:16:31 Guy you try the struggle. The money thing. 00:16:39 You let them go to war. You. Say. 00:16:48 You do because. You have chosen to. 00:16:57 It's not but you can get my I'm grown. Son by can you. 00:17:05 We took you. There it's to prove on up. 00:17:15 Must be China and we love to. Suck. 00:17:25 I was lost in the desert. Sun pain you. 00:17:35 Stupid something. I could not remain. 00:17:43 There is was up to my plan see. The you we service is needed. 00:17:51 So drink deep from the sacred spring come. From the Sun your 00:17:58 feet. Are talking to the. 00:18:05 Found. A speed. 00:18:13 Home some of. 00:18:22 The stuff confined to the. Speed China. 00:18:38 Do you think you see Dr. 00:18:47 Who says not and he didn't. See life's greatest. 00:18:56 Hits the water may find. It freed from St. 00:19:05 Louis both to prove it. Was sure to. 00:19:13 Suck him lose. Their job good luck. 00:19:23 Must be trying. To. 00:19:33 Lose. Their job finally. 00:19:41 Must be. Out suck the blood up. 00:19:53 To 00:19:53 a great Jesse Collin young live on the border crossings on The Voice of America thank 00:19:59 you and the album is dreamers now it's. Not on vinyl as well it has that's amazing 00:20:04 how it you must find this interesting that vinyl has kind of come back and in 00:20:08 popularity now I just read where it's out sold this year actual digital songs 00:20:15 there's you know 2100000 digital sold 2400000 vinyl sold this year. 00:20:23 Well it's out there it's 00:20:24 a double album Go-Go dreamers I mean vinyl. It's beautiful it sounds 00:20:31 different and of course it's fun to look at and I mean. And read you write write 00:20:38 write while you listen at what 00:20:39 a beautiful look at this album cover I mean this is this is pretty amazing stuff 00:20:44 here this beautiful gorgeous gorgeous album cover I don't know who you had designed 00:20:49 this or or how you came up with this this is absolutely gorgeous I cannot remember 00:20:54 this young man's name but it's in there somewhere and I'm sure he's 00:21:00 a beautiful artist and. You know I don't know what that is and whether that's 00:21:05 a rising. Looks like a bunch of there's 00:21:11 a lot going on. A lot there's an owl in there the wisdom and there's the 00:21:18 Viking and it looks like 00:21:19 a biking helmet. And it's yes it's it's the love boat coming to hatch 00:21:26 it's hard to pass by if you're in 00:21:28 a record store is beautiful but Jesse Cullen Young's talking with us on tour right 00:21:32 now is it always been music for you I mean when you started this in the early 00:21:36 sixty's when you was this part of the plan I'm going to be 00:21:39 a musician or you're thinking about other careers Well I don't know we only we had 00:21:45 one piano player in the family had a distant cousin he was 00:21:49 a drunk so. And my dad. Was 00:21:55 a Harvard grad 1st man in his family to go to school so I was thinking like well 00:22:00 you know music we all played and I spent 00:22:03 a lot of time in my early years singing around the piano with my father but nobody 00:22:08 considered it a serious career. So it took me 00:22:12 a little time but I mean from the day I touched 00:22:14 a guitar. As an elective and I this this 00:22:21 wonderful prep school that I was sent to the after 11 create called Phillips and 00:22:26 over time you know my life changed. I had played the piano 00:22:33 I mean and my day 00:22:34 a lot of kids had to. Play piano just take lessons but I never connected and the 00:22:41 music they were teaching me was kind of dorky and. So then here comes Alan Freed 00:22:47 when I'm 10 years old living on Long Island an elephant comes on the radio rock 00:22:52 n roll you have guided me through the rubble and you know I was hooked I had 00:22:57 a radio and I kept it on if I turned away down you know I could leave it on all 00:23:01 night on the radio was right here but my head so I just listened nonstop and 00:23:09 so I was aimed at this year you know I tried 00:23:11 a few. Other careers and it was but. Music was 00:23:18 it for me and has been since you know I was. When I play my 1st game I guess I 00:23:23 think I'm pretty coded sort of 00:23:25 a silly billy my 1st album and I was 19 I was I came out when I was 20 it was on 00:23:30 Capitol so they were busy with the Beatles and and this month you turn $7970.00 00:23:37 s and I turned $7878.00 it's hard to add 00:23:41 a year now and yeah I believe Happy birthday to you now you did mention something 00:23:46 about school in Massachusetts and I do want to touch on that because I I read where 00:23:51 you got 00:23:51 a scholarship but then you got expelled Yeah how did that happen. You're looking at 00:23:58 I'm looking. Yeah this guy was 00:24:02 a job tough he had to punch in you know every morning at 6 with I mean with 00:24:07 a clock and and if you were 00:24:09 a minute late you got to merit so I didn't always make it on time and I got on 00:24:16 probation so I made it 10 weeks without 00:24:20 a demand and. The night I was finishing my house master came to congratulate 00:24:27 me but it is in study hours but I was playing the guitar because we had 00:24:34 a 1st concert the next day. So I was supposed to be playing the guitar 00:24:42 but because I was on probation it was 00:24:45 a little Yeah that was it so and then demand said to me Well it's 00:24:49 a shame we hope to lose 00:24:51 a good boy like you and I'm not going to magic but I was thinking I write so yeah 00:24:58 but really I was I was not meant to go to an Ivy League school I was meant to go to 00:25:03 Ohio State and live behind 00:25:06 a record store. And take the records from the store with the record with the 00:25:12 owner's permission and tape them because I can afford and I'm discover T.-Bone 00:25:17 Walker and b.b. 00:25:19 King and Ray Charles and then I was gone I knew I knew where I was going. Now 00:25:26 in your career which as we mentioned earlier was over 50 years and still going 00:25:30 strong there must be so many great memories so many great shows so many great 00:25:35 places you're performing to people you've worked with have you thought about 00:25:39 writing 00:25:39 a book yes County and I just started. To go 2 months ago I mean 00:25:46 people have brought it up and I said Really I've read 00:25:49 a few musicians and biographers and it's just like movies about music and I mean if 00:25:54 you they do things and music movies that can't really be done right word 00:26:01 and it seems funny to you so I was I've never been 00:26:04 a fan of musical biographies but. We started out by writing about the fire. 00:26:13 Because Conny was there in the house with the kids with. One of the kids I had 00:26:18 Tristan in 00:26:19 a car taking him to the doctor and the flames are coming up and the firemen say oh 00:26:24 it's Ok and then 20 minutes later they come back and say Get out now right so she's 00:26:30 on the phone saying what do you want and. And then yeah and and then 00:26:37 burning in the house and going up there and seeing that forest but finding the 00:26:42 studio. Was an intact. So 00:26:48 and I don't know we got right about that and I thought wow we could write 00:26:54 a book like this I'm the 2 of us speaking in our own voices and seeing this. 00:27:02 Wonderful romance of ours of 35 years from 2 sides and what's it called. 00:27:10 What they called me and she's shaking her head yeah we don't know. You haven't 00:27:15 title yet well we know we were thinking it's all about the fire but no that's just 00:27:20 that was a crucible time for us and a big and 00:27:23 a huge change and it was a disaster that kind of turned out to be 00:27:30 a blessing that's wonderful and so looking at your career what would you say I mean 00:27:36 as you write your book and you tell your story what will be among the highlights if 00:27:40 you could single out because probably many highlights but if you you know what give 00:27:44 us a chapter that would be a highlight some some story some 00:27:47 a vent in your life that stands out above the because you've done so many different 00:27:51 things and so here's one of the most embarrassing things. I went I went to school 00:27:57 with this kid named Artie and queens and. When my record 1st came 00:28:04 out I sort of the city boy I was so proud I was at Curtis Folk City that's in the 00:28:10 village I think I was headlining and. And I 00:28:17 hadn't seen already since grade school and he and he showed up I said wow already I 00:28:23 got 00:28:23 a record contract I got and oh just terrific it's great he said he looked at me and 00:28:30 said I make records to know this was already 00:28:37 Garfunkel. What do you know. So 00:28:44 that's interesting number one in the barest embarrassing moments in my life but 00:28:50 yeah that was. And to find him there and I think Paul was in our class but I never 00:28:56 really got to know him and I think Paul mother Paul's mother taught in that school 00:29:01 but Simon use of yeah. But you know Sound of Silence 00:29:08 was the was the song that like just blew the radio open for acoustic rock. 00:29:15 Music about right things that were real and apart from romance and 00:29:22 political and and interesting yeah so i was huge fan of well there's 00:29:28 a lot of fans of your music all around the world and we're we're thrilled to have 00:29:32 you here in d.c. 00:29:33 And thank you for doing this for us Jesse Collin young would you do another song I 00:29:37 would love to but just a sip of this this is 00:29:43 a song County and I wrote together she actually started it someone through the 00:29:48 internet asked us to to write a song about 00:29:51 a movie that became Boston strong it was about. The bombing at 00:29:58 the here at the marathon and we had had this personal experience we were driving in 00:30:05 a car listen to n.p.r. 00:30:07 . A bomb went off in Boston Tristan is in Boston in school 00:30:14 and living 3 blocks probably from the finish line of the marathon and they said 00:30:20 that's all the information we have so we rushed home we turned on the t.v. 00:30:26 And there are the pictures but we can't get through. It turns out to do police 00:30:32 turned off the cell towers because they were afraid of more bombs so for an hour we 00:30:37 are hanging watching this awful stuff over and over and thinking please he 00:30:44 didn't wander down there with 00:30:46 a cup of coffee just. And luckily he didn't actually all these kids 00:30:53 on this album dreamers were in school at that time and right there so 00:31:02 when someone asked I woke up the next morning and Conny had 00:31:06 a page of lyrics or 2 pages of lyrics written already this is called cast 00:31:11 a stone. All 00:31:20 that we do all that we do in this life. Kind of ripples out like when you throw 00:31:26 a stone in the water and affects everyone else in some way. 00:31:34 Whether it's for good north. In this case for evil to. 00:31:49 Come. Castro still. 00:31:57 In the water. See the reboot spread out. 00:32:04 Feel the pain of not knowing. He the Son. Shout. 00:32:13 Is another moment danger. Or maybe we're in the last guy stood 00:32:20 still. In the want to. See the boat spread. 00:32:32 It's just an. Excuse to. 00:32:45 We are witness to even. My hands on my toes from very. 00:32:53 On and on the replay it. While we both read it. 00:33:02 In the pool isn't 00:33:03 a sprint. Hard stance and no. Consequence to me. 00:33:11 In the morning I. See the boards. Go. 00:33:22 That's to. Get students to come. 00:33:30 Close to home. Now the crew. 00:33:41 Down. And the ball from the Rose Garden. Is 00:33:48 a fraud. As I feel and. 00:33:56 Feeds I don't reach as fresh as stood still. In the water I. 00:34:04 See the spread. 00:34:12 To the. 00:34:25 Catskills to. Just 00:34:31 a gallon young legendary name in the music business been around the block 00:34:36 a few times and so let me The Youngbloods you've been with them on and off over the 00:34:41 years are you planning anything with the Youngbloods in the near future. 00:34:48 No not really. Bananas the only one that's 00:34:55 still hadn't yet still with us. And I think he's busy 00:35:02 pretty busy playing with little Stevie. Tournament 00:35:10 there any favorite places you like to perform around the world when you're out on 00:35:14 tour. I love to play outside I mean I think 00:35:23 playing with Crosby Stills Nash and Young doing their whole summer tour in 1974 00:35:29 that was. Mostly outside. In the summer and so 00:35:36 beautiful about countries you like to go to because we're broadcasting to 00:35:40 a 100 countries right now so you know I haven't seen much of the world I have been 00:35:44 driving around America in circles and. We just went to Paris for the 1st time 00:35:52 for me. 2 months ago and this is probably the beginning of. 00:35:59 And I didn't play I just fooled around and had wonderful food and looked at these 00:36:05 gorgeous buildings that was right before and. Burned. So we got to see it. 00:36:17 I just got 00:36:17 a name for your autobiography driving in circles. So I 00:36:24 know you're going to do one of the one of the biggest signature songs and do you 00:36:29 remember where you were when you heard your song on the radio for the 1st time Get 00:36:34 together with us because that's kind of a very profound moment in 00:36:38 a musician's life and career to hear your song Somewhere out there that so young 00:36:44 birds flew. To San Francisco and you know. 15th 00:36:52 1967 and we had no idea what was going on in the Bay Area we were in we 00:36:59 were you're based in New York and I'm. And the banana our 00:37:06 keyboard player had hair up to here was kind of an anomaly I mean businessmen in 00:37:11 the Holiday Inn and stuff and sometimes reach out. Had to say I don't know 00:37:16 Baldwin's touch does. So but she appeared didn't know there was 00:37:23 a town and which every other guy had hair like that and and that was San Francisco 00:37:29 so we walked into that to the cheap motel and Gary Street and I threw my bag down 00:37:35 and I would probably stay with Corbett and I had 2 twin beds and where they came 00:37:40 together there was this little radio built into the I turned it on 00:37:46 a get together was on the radio. Time 00:37:53 and when we went to the on the line and you know instead of 40 or 50 people there 00:37:58 were 404500 people and half of them look like bananas and then. 00:38:07 And. So I mean we realized that this 00:38:14 was the place we needed to be I mean we could work we get together was 00:38:18 a hit in 67 and in San Francisco and up the coast maybe Portland 00:38:25 Seattle. No where else so it was not 00:38:29 a major hit but man I mean we were we were there we were there we were there for 00:38:36 the for the work in those cities so right right right we went home and we went home 00:38:40 and we moved immediately but it went to number one in 69 yes. So that was 00:38:47 you know those 2 years the National Council of Christians and Jews took that song 00:38:53 and put it on a brotherhood commercial a p.s.a. 00:38:56 . And you know they push those things off too late in the night when right when 00:39:02 it's not high commercial value and who was I mean who was watching t.v. 00:39:08 Late at night it was young people I guess because. The country had 00:39:14 also I think. Had come to 00:39:21 a different. Idea about the war that it was not working and that. 00:39:29 The feeling that I brothers and sisters were dying in vain and I became more 00:39:35 prevalent and get together was their. Kind of nurturing that 00:39:42 that desire to have it. Is safe place to love one another right right right the 00:39:48 Vietnam War is what you're referring to yeah and for the audience around the world 00:39:51 so if what was the story behind the song I mean before we do it what was the you 00:39:56 know when you wrote this What was it that led you to this song are you sitting at 00:40:01 home in the basement studio at one another with some other studio and you see 00:40:05 here's I got a song in my mind of my heart and I got 00:40:08 a story to tell I didn't write it you didn't I walked into an open mike in the 00:40:15 village and there was 00:40:17 a fellow named buzzy Len hunt on stage singing it. Was written by 00:40:24 Dina Valenti and he had been in the village 00:40:26 a couple years before that maybe and 63 and 64 I was either 00:40:32 working with I don't work in 00:40:34 a factory or doing something else. So I had never heard it and 00:40:41 I ran backstage and said Man I gotta have the lyrics and 00:40:48 I mean when I heard that song I knew that my life had changed that this was like. 00:40:57 The course correction and that get together would now be my compass and it has been 00:41:04 and I I thought for 00:41:05 a while or it. It was our generation's compass I mean it paved the way for 00:41:11 Woodstock over those 2 years as it as it bled that message into the country as 00:41:18 a whole as it penetrated from the West Coast and you know then when. 00:41:27 When movies come out with get together and I get. I get fan letters from 10 year 00:41:32 olds that say that's my class that's my favorite song in my class. I realized. 00:41:40 The generations are being introduced to it over and over and now where you. 00:41:47 Are country being as divide of divisive and the and the visit as the rhetoric is. 00:41:56 I mean we need this we need to sing this song more than ever so we started this 00:42:01 thing about 00:42:02 a month ago. And I it's. Kind of 00:42:08 a Video Challenge I recorded get together and then I said. Please 00:42:16 you guys to the audience go when you're I would your friends the bar just get 00:42:22 together get out a phone and sing 00:42:24 a chorus of get together and video it and then post it but then hash tag it. Get 00:42:31 together again with the 3 words kept get together kept me again 00:42:38 and at Jesse Cullen young and we will we will make 00:42:43 a quilt and you guys were going to garage come on because people people who 00:42:50 know this song even when they don't know they know it when you start singing it. I 00:42:55 don't care where you are I mean even if I sing it it t.s.a. 00:42:59 Or you play music what kind of music you that and I think I just sing 00:43:03 a little bit or get together and. And they light up so we're we're hoping to 00:43:10 get people from all over the world to send us little videos of them and posting 00:43:16 them in their. Their social media but hash tag ing it get together again and Jesse 00:43:21 come on Young and we'll we will collect these and make 00:43:26 a quilt. And you know 00:43:28 a audio quilt out and all. People of all walks of life and it would be wonderful 00:43:35 from all countries singing Get together cool is that yeah all right well what would 00:43:41 you mind doing the song right now song that you've done 00:43:44 a couple times I love this song. 00:44:07 Love is not 00:44:08 a song. Feel is to leave you to die. We 00:44:20 can make the mountains ring. Or make these chains crack. 00:44:32 The little birdies on the. We don't wanna. 00:44:44 Come on people now Smile on your brother. Kid to get China to 00:44:50 love one. 00:44:59 Some man come on some. People leave the show let it pass. 00:45:12 When the one they live to see. Read through send. 00:45:24 Me I'm up to my son. And live feeds you. 00:45:36 Come on. Smile. Here everybody get to get John. 00:45:44 Warner on the grass. 00:45:51 Come on. Smile. To the kids again child 00:45:59 born on. 00:46:17 If you hear the song the seat. People even understand. 00:46:26 Some. Really hold the key to the. 00:46:35 Border liniment chimney. 00:46:43 Just one keep. Those in the woods to. 00:46:55 Come on. Smile on you with the. Kids in China 00:47:02 one. 00:47:10 Come on. Smile. And if you get 00:47:16 a child walk on. 00:47:24 The. 00:47:35 Happy 50th birthday to that so yes and that's something that rings true today just 00:47:40 as it did in 1969 when you sang it with the young bloods we've got Jessie calling 00:47:45 you're going to studio and you said it's one of your favorite songs you love the 00:47:47 song of course you should love the song it was 00:47:49 a Pepsi commercial during the Super Bowl it was in forest Kentucky Fried Chicken 00:47:54 all markets the list goes on and on and on that song resonates throughout all the 00:47:59 eras and all time and so yes did you did you see that Pepsi commercial I did not 00:48:06 was great because it really yes the 2 drivers Coke and Pepsi in 00:48:12 a diner and they're eyeing each other and ordering their favorite drink. 00:48:20 And then saying I'm 00:48:22 a chorus line when those they pan to the outside of the diner and one of them comes 00:48:26 through the window. That's funny creative ad agencies and you did something risky 00:48:33 with that song too which I'm sure you didn't think about at the time or maybe you 00:48:37 did but back then in the sixty's late sixty's songs were 2 and 00:48:40 a half minutes long and that song was 4 and 00:48:43 a half minutes long and you must have been thinking are we going to get this played 00:48:47 on the radio how are we going to get this out there you know it was. Not slated to 00:48:52 be 00:48:52 a single it was actually 5 minutes I think also. So I 00:49:00 was just I was in love with that song it had really I so I 00:49:07 think we approached it that way. I brought the song to the band I was the 00:49:14 lead singer So everyone kind we just we made 00:49:17 a beautiful piece. Beautiful piece of art music and I 00:49:24 remembers. Something on the radio and maybe be high in New York said to me 00:49:32 it's it seems very innocent. And when I listen back to my 00:49:39 to my performance of it it's it is it's very innocent it's very matter of fact it's 00:49:45 not loaded Yeah up with everything that's like the saddest you know that 00:49:52 just just there bringing that message because the writing lyrics. Are. Very heavy 00:49:59 and we can still make the mountain soaring Yes or make the angels cry which they're 00:50:05 doing 00:50:05 a lot these days. I'm out here trying to. Get 00:50:13 together one of the great song. 00:52:08 Good. To. 00:52:16 Be. 00:52:27 Here. 00:52:55 She. 00:53:10 Moved. 00:53:26 Along with. 00:53:57 News. Man. Made 00:54:03 news to. Him. 00:54:13 Love you lol. 00:55:06 Plenty. 00:55:15 Plenty. 00:55:27 Plenty. 00:56:41 Thank you so much for being on the show and if people want to get your album 00:56:45 dreamers or if they want to catch you on the tour your website I'm sure has all the 00:56:48 information Yeah Jesse Cowan young dot com and dreamers it Amazon and i Tunes 00:56:55 and whether it's you would do him down a lot or a cd or 00:56:58 a Binal and I'm yeah it's out there and. 00:57:05 Yeah thanks for giving me a chance to sing these songs because whom I've brought 00:57:10 a lot of memories back thank you so much for coming to our studio and pleasure 00:57:13 being 00:57:14 a part of the show Jesse Collin Young is our guest it's dreamers the name of his 00:57:18 new album My name is Larry London and this is border crossing. 00:57:59 This is feeling a new sign Joe Palca u.s. 00:58:03 President Donald Trump is pressuring Turkey to stop its offensive in northern Syria 00:58:08 with calls for 00:58:09 a cease fire and sanctions against Turkish officials as he plans to send 00:58:14 a delegation led by Vice President Mike Vance to Ankara for talks to resolve the 00:58:18 situation the president's action follows sharp criticism in the weeks since the 00:58:23 White House announced Turkey was going forward with its long held plans to try to 00:58:27 carve out a buffer zone along its border with Syria free from the u.s. 00:58:31 Backed Kurdish fighters it accuses of being terrorists the always Heather Murdock 00:58:36 is on the ground in Syria and she tells us the essential reaction of the Kurdish 00:58:40 people they are angry. Or making the question and lay the blame squarely on the 00:58:47 president of the United States they feel like they have been for 00:58:51 a long time they feel like they have been abandoned and left who the longer 00:58:58 President Trump spoke Monday with both Turkish president rate ship tired and 00:59:03 general Muslim called Bani the head of the mostly Kurdish s.d.f. 00:59:07 That the United States has relied on to battle Islamic state militants in Syria.