Hurray For The Riff Raff On 'Norah Jones Is Playing Along'

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "I'm so in love with the music," Norah Jones says of Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, the guest on the latest episode of her podcast, Norah Jones Is Playing Along. "I've been listening to Hurray for the Riff Raff for a long time. And their voice is just breathtaking to me." Jones and Segarra talk about Segarra's life and music and duet on several songs together, including three from Hurray for the Riff Raff's 2022 Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH—"Rhododendron," "Saga," and the title track—as well as "Living in the City," from 2017's The Navigator, and close with their take on Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel."

To commemorate Earth Day earlier this year, Hurray for the Riff Raff released a digital deluxe version of Life on Earth. Along with the album's original eleven songs, the deluxe edition has seven additional tracks, three of which are previously unreleased. Life on Earth was a departure for the New Orleans-based Segarra. Its eleven new "nature punk" tracks on the theme of survival are music for a world in flux—songs about thriving, not just surviving, while disaster is happening. For this eighth full-length album, Segarra drew inspiration from The Clash, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Bad Bunny, and the author of Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown. Recorded during the early months of the pandemic, Life on Earth was produced by Brad Cook (Waxahatchee, Bon Iver, Kevin Morby). Among other accolades, the album was on many media outlets' best of 2022 lists, including those of NPR, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Uncut, and Brooklyn Vegan.