We've teamed up with Come Hear NC on a podcast series that explores North Carolina music one song at a time. On this episode, Merge Records co-founder and Superchunk bassist Laura Ballance talks to us about Roberta Flack's 'Compared To What.'
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"This song to me is an expression of that frustration and powerlessness that people were feeling at the time. It's a protest song against the lack of progress in the civil rights movement and the general kind of political climate going on at that time."
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Credit Jason Arthurs
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